Font Idea | 'Mom + Dad = Me'

The basic idea of my font is to represent an offspring of 2 individual fonts, and that offspring has received traits from the 'Mum and Dad' font, like its observable traits, for example the way the serifs look and the height and weight of the font. I will be creating the parent fonts as well as the offspring font... hopefully what I'm trying to explain here doesn't confuse people so far. Earlier, I was also thinking this could give me a chance to look at how as well as body features, diseases are passed on by genes too and I could maybe incorporate that somehow in the font too, for example, I could have some sort of imagery on a letter representing something like heart disease or genetic abnormality.

Mendel's Laws of Heredity |

Written by Gregor Mendel in 1865, Mendel discovered that when you cross two different coloured plants, you don't get a blend of the two but instead the offspring is conceived with dominant factors like the colour, and recessive factors like its characteristics.

These 'factors' are our genes, though they occur in pairs in body cells, but segregate during the formation of sex cells and each member of the pair becomes part of the separate sex cell. The dominant gene hides the recessive gene. Mendel theorized that genes can be paired in three different ways for each trait: AA, aa and Aa( The capital 'A' represents the dominant gene and the lower case 'a' the recessive gene).

-'Mendel stated that each individual has two factors for each trait, one from each parent. The two factors may or may not contain the same information. If the two factors are identical, the individual is called homozygous for the trait. If the two factors have different information, the individual is called heterozygous. The alternative forms of a factor are called alleles. The genotype of an individual is made up of the many alleles it possesses. An individual's physical appearance, or phenotype, is determined by its alleles as well as by its environment. An individual possesses two alleles for each trait; one allele is given by the female parent and the other by the male parent. They are passed on when an individual matures and produces gametes: egg and sperm. When gametes form, the paired alleles separate randomly so that each gamete receives a copy of one of the two alleles. The presence of an allele doesn't promise that the trait will be expressed in the individual that possesses it. In heterozygous individuals the only allele that is expressed is the dominant. The recessive allele is present but its expression is hidden.'-

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This is sure to come in handy later for naming my font:

'In fertilization and breeding experiments (and especially when discussing Mendel's laws) the parents are referred to as the "P" generation and the offspring as the "F1" (first filial) generation. When the F1 offspring mate with each other, the offspring are called the "F2" (second filial) generation. One of the common diagrams used to predict the result of cross-breeding is the Punnett square.'