Typophile - Help me trim an 'f' - Comments

Thanks Nick! Here is the

Jennifer — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:56:47 -0800

Thanks Nick!

Here is the original, which some found confusing. I liked the hook, but I suppose it could be too show-offy. At any rate, I’m fine with the change and I so appreciate your input.

It looks great, especially

Nick Shinn — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:19:13 -0800

It looks great, especially the way you’ve integrated it into the design, which apparently was the whole point of the exercise.
It’s nice that it’s at a slightly different angle—puts some tension in the layout and gets it moving.

I did try trimming at the

Jennifer — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:57:28 -0800

I did try trimming at the baseline, but the result looks confused, as though the f belongs to a different family altogether. It kind of kills the ’lively’ in it. The descender, even trimmed flat, still contributes grace and movement. Here is the trimmed version in (partial) context. It feels right to me.

ps. I am aware of and addressing other inconsistencies in this piece :)

Yeah, the recognizable part

bert_vanderveen — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:31:23 -0800

Yeah, the recognizable part of a typeface (glyphs in this case) is the upper part. There is a classic test, where they cut off either the bottom half of a line of type or the upper half. ANd then let people read these lines.
Most of the recognition aspects are in the upper parts.

Personal opinion: cut off at baseline does it for me.

. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO

If you have to crop it, I

cerulean — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:56:44 -0800

If you have to crop it, I think it should be at the baseline. Leaving any more just calls attention to what’s missing.

Wow. Problem solved.

Jennifer — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:51:26 -0800

Wow. Problem solved. :)

thanks Nick!

Check out Old Standard’s

Nick Shinn — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:42:58 -0800

Check out Old Standard’s treatment (scroll to bottom for download).

http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html

That’s a neat idea! I’m

Jennifer — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:37:04 -0800

That’s a neat idea!

I’m not a type designer either, clearly. :)

I don’t have your

jupiterboy — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:27:04 -0800

I don’t have your perspective on this, and please consider that I am not a type designer…

You may have trouble keeping the descender depth right while trying to keep the weight right as well. One option might be to build some haphazard swash character and avoid the descender completely.

I’m sure someone will bring it to our attention if this a particularly awful idea.

Help me trim an 'f'

Jennifer — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:44:02 -0800

I need to trim the tail from an italic lowercase f using monotype modern bold italic (’original’ below). It isn’t my preference to do so, but it is the lesser of 2 evils on a project with a fast-approaching deadline. Which of these do you think works? Do you think it should taper at all? Or should it be the same width right to the bottom?

Here are pics for the original, 1 (some), 2 (less), 3 (less still).

Alternately, could anyone suggest a lowercase f that doesn’t have a tail that would match this?
thanks in advance!
Jennifer