Ish Mark

I chose to design a punctuation mark for ish. I began by researching emoticons, which could be used to show ish, but I couldn’t find any that I could change the meaning of. So I began to think of the actions you make when you talk about an uncertain time. (E.g: lets meet at 8ish.) I rotate my hand from side to side and I used this as the basis of my design. The punctuation mark I designed is shown above. I created it using the letter V and I in this typeface and putting them together to show ish. It could also be used to show umpteen. Umpteen is an unspecified number and the tips of the arrows go pass each other so that there is no persific point they point at. I used the typeface Century Gothic again for this design because it was very angular, which ties in with the arrow, pointy shape of this ‘ish’ mark.