My chosen word was 'dependent', and or my initial research into creating my typeface I looked at how my is defined:
1) Determined, influenced, or controlled by something else
2) Requiring someone or something for support
3) Unable to do without
The word originates from the Old French word 'dependant', which translates literally to mean ‘hanging down from'. Based on thesaurus suggestions, other synonyms of the word are: defenseless, reliant, vulnerable, inferior, minor, secondary, subordinate, clinging, counting on, and lesser
To gather a starting point for the basis of my typeface I researched Josef Müeller-Brockmanns nine typefaces, looking at both upper and lower case alphabets as well as a range of numbers and punctuation marks:
