Single Old Style Letter "P"

I was given the letter P for this project. The first few words that came to my head were Pistol and Portrait.

word list.
pistol
portrait
poptart
poop
precious
parcel
people
person
Patrick Stewart
Patriot
Panama
Paper
Pipes
Pasta
Print
Portfolio
Postal Service
Piano
Ploy
Plot
Princess
Portal
Prime ape

Side Note: Thought this was cool. The new show Gotham has Old Style font, and it totally works for the show.

I have several ideas swimming in my head. I can't wait to get started.

Unfortunately, I do not have very many options in Illustrator for font choices. This is Garamond typeface. Out of the two choices I had, I chose Garamond. The photo below shows Palatino font (the largest). I really don't like the lower case p, and the way it has the awkward weight change on the bowl.

I like the Garamond font for several reasons. I like the open aperture on the bowl of the capital P. I like the gentle dip in the serifs that Old Style fonts have. I appreciate the mostly consistent weight of the letter as well.

 

I started to play around with the letterform, I realized I started to make a monkey or ape like abstract figure with the P's! Prime Ape! 

Also, the little P's upper stylized serif fit perfectly into the curves of the upper case P!