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Youthful yogis yoke yawing yacht

Development

Brainstorm sketch

Sketch details

First digital mockup

Colours

Initial mockup

Image development

Yolk yogis

Using egg yolk and water colour brushes.

Yogis sketch

Yogis – egg yolk and acrylic ink. Scanned dark and high contrast

Yogis – egg yolk and acrylic ink. Scanned medium dark and high contrast

Yogis – egg yolk medium bright and contrast

Yogis – egg yolk medium bright and contrast detail

Yogis – yolk on white paper scanned dark at high contrast

Yogis – yolk on white paper scanned at medium bright and contrast

For experiments with egg yolk drawings see:

Yolk drawing

Yarn Yuccas

Yucca drawn with yarn on PVA glue scanned in Black and white dark

Yucca drawn with yarn on PVA glue scanned in Black and white ,medium dark

Yucca drawn with pencil on yellow paper scanned in Black and white dark

Yucca drawn with pencilon yellow paper scanned at high contrast

Yellow pages

Yellow pages front page used for Yucca

Yellow pages usef for yachet bacground overlaid with egg yolk and scanned BW at very dark

Yellow pages overlaid with egg yolk and scanned BW at medium dark

Developing the Photoshop composite

Yellowpage Yucca

Letter Y image

Research

Letter Y in typefaces shipped with Illustrator

The only typeface on Type kit is ‘Yrsa’ in light, regular, medium, semibold and bold.

Free fonts beginning with Y from FontsSpace

I particularly like:

Yellow peas – like yawing yachts:
http://www.fontspace.com/runesandfonts/yellow-peas-demo

Yellow umbrella:
http://www.fontspace.com/brittney-murphy-design/yellow-umbrella

Google images

Wikipedia article

Evolution

The letter Y in English is both a vowel and a consonant.

The oldest direct ancestor of English letter Y was the Semitic letter waw, from which also come F, U, V, and W. The Greek and Latin alphabets developed from the Phoenician form of this early alphabet.

Modern English has four uses:

• for ‘upsilon’ in Greek loan-words (system: Greek σύστημα). Because it was not a native sound of Latin, it was usually pronounced /u/ or /i/.
• as a replacement for I: at the end of a word (rye, city) in place of I before the ending -ing (dy-ing, justify-ing). In Old English there was a native /y/ sound, and so all of Latin U, Y and I were used to represent distinct vowels. But by the time of Middle English, /y/ had lost its roundedness and became identical to I (/iː/and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that originally had I were spelled with Y, and vice versa.
• as a consonant (you). This is possibly influenced by the Middle English letter yogh (Ȝȝ) which developed from Semitic gimel, whose other sound, /ɣ/, came to be written gh in Middle English.)

Summary of the sources of Modern English “Y”

Phoenician	Greek	Latin	English (approximate times of changes)
			Old	Middle	Modern
		V →	U →	V/U/UU →	V/U/W
		Y →	Y (vowel /y/) →	Y (vowel /i/) →	Y (vowels)
		C →
		G →	Ȝ (consonantal /g/ or /ɣ/) →	G →
				consonantal Y /j/ →	Y (consonant)