two very quick one! :)

But I'm the first!! Ha Ha :) Yuhuu

Hello,

Newbie here...How do you guys design your fonts? Pertaining more to the previous TypeBattles were you are designing whole sets/alphabets...

Do you draw them out and scan them in?
Do you use font designing software? If so, what is the standard or preferred application?

You guys do some great work and i am just curious how you guys do it.

-thanks for any feedback

FAQs, in particular FAQ_Design
Fist

Ha! I was trying to remember what the 'pointing hand dingbat' was called. I should have looked at the wiki.

just added it, christian. oh, and i have a terrible idea for this one... to be continued...

They are not new, I drew them for my Capone typefamily.

Not exactly what I wanted it to look like, but it is what it is.

The two hands are really nice Pieter! They also have the nice necessary 20's charm. But if I shoot with my fingers I always keep up the thumb.

Somebody make a fist out of letters (you know, like Bembo's Zoo).

hhp

I love the shading on Pieter's, and Issac I tried something like that too, and believe me yours is a lot better. I thought it would be funny to do a blackletter dingbat, but funny turned difficult rather quickly, and I had to give up, because, like Sebastian in Type Battle 12 WW3, my girlfriend awaits. The top one is based on Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch (I know I know the contrast is all wrong), and the second one is more of a glyphic thing, based on
protest t-shirt and posters and what not.

Hopefully I can sneak away and work on some more later.

- David

Christian,

I was hoping the next battle would be:
Design caps and numbers for the lc you did last week.
Followed by: design diacritics, design an alternate weight etc.

This would be a public service!

Randy
PS. Thanks all for your kind comments last week.

> I was hoping the next battle would be:
> Design caps and numbers for the lc you did last week.
> Followed by: design diacritics, design an alternate weight etc.

This was my hope too. Would help me to get "Typebattle 12 – WW3" on a certain level in short time, while battling.

So now TP12-WW3 has a pointless pointer, that does not yet fit it really. I'll first have to draw this with a real pen, there will be an update...

If pointing was an olympic sport
Tim

here's my Saul Bass-inspired pointer hand.. couldn't decide which of these two i liked best, so i'm posting both! (plus the third one i made just for fun.)

claes, your third one somehow reminds me of this:

haha! that's too funny.

it should remind you of this though:

Well this one seemed easy enough for me... so here's my (first simple, then just lazy, then somewhat concentrated and committed) twenty minutes:

I think that last one could be interesting with some tweaking...

ruby

Seemed difficult for me 'cause I'm useless at drawing (hands). So the first of these at least is a blatant bit of a plagiaris- er, homage to Bob McKimson, for which I apologise...

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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster's stopped working.

dtw,

your first one looks to me like an evil villain's "Arrest Them!" pointy hand. (;

LOL! (It's Bugs Bunny, of course)

This link: http://www.printinghistory.org/images/conference/fist2-3.jpg might be of interest...

Awesome work folks. I don't think I'll necessarily take part in this battle, but definitely interested in future.Graphic Design, Melbourne

Look! Over There!

This one can easily be converted into other symbols/meanings just by making certain fingers longer or shorter.

...but I won't go there. :-P

This is appropriate for new editions of Dickens.....

I love it, that thing looks so beautiful scary!

Since they've all looked kinda masculine so far:

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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster's stopped working.

Interesting idea, dtw.

By the way: How do the pointers in Mrs. Eaves look like? I don't have the font and can't look at them...
They should be female.

From what I recall Mrs. Eaves doesn't contain pointers.

Designs by Pieter van Rosmalen, rubenDmarkes and dtw looks & feels great! Where I can see the winners?
Best regards, Igor
Font River

Somebody said MANicule? You can't beat this chirofreak:

hhp

great work hrant

I wish that was my work! I have no such talent.

hhp