What I would say is this:
In the font world, we currently have enough policemen, and we have enough hooligans, so I would suggest you take the middle ground, and take this down a subtly funky path. Like your first "D", your "J" (really, really cool), your second "N", your BP, and your curly braces have potential, but the rest I feel is either too strict or too loose (mostly the former).

hhp

I like this face a lot -- it's clever in a lot of ways -- and would hope that you would complete it. What most interests me are the counters. They are a riff on the typical counters.
Ole, in constructing this face, did you work inside out from the counter, or is the counter the result of the directions you took with your stems.
Do you follow?

Another question. Are you going to create a separate font for the alternates or are you going to find hardly used fontog. cells to put your third 'E', etc.

bj

I like these letters too. The 3 as E is certainly worthy of an empty box in fontog. I've been doing that lately, making lots of alternates...but you know what is reallllly cool: the Sigma sign as an uc E.


bj

p.s. structural v. structual

Try Sigma with Unicratica, just so you can have a fourth 'E' alternate.

I'm familiar with the Enemy of the State font. It's called Metrolox by Karen Clemens. It's free at Apostrophic Lab. She runs a design firm in Belgium. Did she make a font based on the movie type, or did some agency use her font?


Speaking of movie type, what's the name of the 'Black Hawk Down' typeface? Anyone?

Thanks. I didn't realize that Citizen had the 'grooves' cut out of the uc 'A' and 'W'. Until now.

bj

Here are some studies on the character G, the lower right corner has final version.

Hello and welcome Milan, I took your advice to see what the G would look like if the horizontal stem was removed here is 3 versions.

Thanks Dylan. I think it is about time I get working on this face again. I showed it as work in progress when I met with a multi-national ad agency this past friday and they were impressed.
They would like to hire me on freelance basis especially for type and photoshop work which are my strongest skill sets. I was thinking during the meeting how it is kind of pathetic that I am so into type yet have never finished a full face. I guess i get a bit overly critical which often kills the joy of making type. In the beginning I was working on this constantly for a few weeks and got stuck in the lowercase which is about 40% completed. I am thinking I will properly finish the unicase first as itis something I use a lot. Thanks for the encouragement. I will post as it progresses. Ole

Hi Jacques. I know what you mean and I and knew this may be an issue from the beginning. I set up the rules early on which included monoline, the slightly angular curves, flatening any curve if possible without sacrificing aesthetics, keeping all the usual "G" "O","Q","S"and "U" withing the parimeter of the base character height. Character width is not designed for a true monospaced OCR, but I wanted to make keep it going in that direction aesthetically, so several letters like the "M"'s are narrower because of this. I tried some wide "I"s but I didn't like them so went more in the direction of small slab srifs on the "I". There was consideration to having 2 alternates of each letter character, which i will properly still do. one of the could be optically adjusted, which is actually a really good idea you brought up.
Marketing. I am not sure. I know Rod at PsyOps and would be proud to be distributed by him. He is very ethical and trustworthy as well as talented in the design and distribution of type.
I am currently working on some promotional collateral for Psy/Ops's latest release "Reform". Emigre would properly be the most prestigious distributor but they are really hard to get distributed by, according to people I know who have approached them with good designs. Lineto is premium, I like their collection a lot and I do think it would be the best match aesthetically.

Adam Roe (Luchbox Studio) was one of t-26's best sellers back in the early days, he has completely rejected by Emigre and he is no amateur.

I started a Blackletter version of Unicratica using the original skeletal of Unicratica. I have a few hours into the first letters glyphs and wonder what the rest of you type heads think about it. Working Title is Unicratica Blackletter.

Awesome! I think there's a huge wealth of historical letterform variation just waiting for sans-serif interpretation. The current humanist deluge could just be the tip of the iceberg (hm, a mixed metaphor?).

Paul

As I understood the CIA project... The skeletal forms were derived from compiling data from existing faces's proportions and using that as a starting point. From there
personal taste and aesthetics brought the forms to their final form. Did I misunderstand the process used in the
CIA Compendium?

Unicratica is being completely reworked from scratch. Here is first use of new version. Logo type for my (re-named) design firm Creative Factor.
I will upload more characters in the next few days...

www.creativefactor.com/portfolio

Mmmm, tasty. Keep this train rolling!

Is this a monospace design? If not, some of the glyphs (like the "E") are too wide. I think the "G" really needs a much stronger "lip". As for the "4" and "7", that's just my cup of tea!

hhp

Oops.I goofed . As for weight. I used Verticals at 100%, 90

glyphophile.com ?

I have looked at so many mono fonts and all have different ratios, example below.

Lowercase Study of "b".

fantastic!

Solid.
Where's the "S"?

BTW, I think the space around the bar is too little compared to the letterspace.

hhp

I think the Unicratica Blackletter is a wonderful idea, hope you continue with it.

I thought I would upload a detail shot, so it is easier to see the subtle curves that escape the eye on the previous image.

I'm really liking the flavor of this. Very nice,
Ole. Have you considered doing the whole gamut of
alternates, rather than narrowing down the set?