Began playing with 2 to 4 tools to create an upper case lower case, numbers and punctuation. I made sure the x height was the same and the ascender and descender remained the same length which related to the uppercase and the numbers.

Feel this is working miles better. It plays with negative and positive space more with some of the shapes being quite heavy in weight. I'm happy with this outcome but could do with testing it to see how legible it is.