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Soft or Rounded?
Posted by satya in
8 Feb 2013 — 8:01am
8 Feb 2013 — 8:01am
Hello Typophiles,
Hope you've all been good.
I'm giving final touches to a new Latin typeface which has also a soft/rounded version. I was slightly confused whether I should call it Rounded or Soft? Any suggestions?
Here is how it looks:
Thanks,
Satya
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8 Feb 2013 — 8:09am
I think to call it "Rounded" it would need to be... softer. :-)
hhp
8 Feb 2013 — 10:33am
I would not refer to it as "soft"; that's only good for selling toilet paper or bath towels.
8 Feb 2013 — 11:25am
Smooth.
8 Feb 2013 — 11:28am
depending on intended use, social might be an option nowadays, instead of rounded
8 Feb 2013 — 11:29am
Smooth is the word.
8 Feb 2013 — 1:27pm
"Rounded" says semicircular terminals to me, which this doesn't have. I think "soft" is fine.
8 Feb 2013 — 1:34pm
There's nothing wrong with "Soft"! (And anyway people love toilet paper.)
hhp
9 Feb 2013 — 7:33pm
I call my FF Unit Rounded, because it is. That word is a participle, meaning something straight has been rounded. Nothing about the amount of rounding. There are typefaces called Round, implying that they do have complete semicircles for terminals.
9 Feb 2013 — 9:13pm
True, on rethinking it my expectation of semicircular terminals is too narrow for the word "rounded." But at the same time I see Unit's curves as corners made into "quarter rounds," that is as arcs of a circle and thus also the same kind of "rounded" animal as a font with semicircular terminals. Satya's typeface to my eye is a different thing--more inflated than router-carved.