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Forgive me Noah, as I've not read all of your other threads about this face. I'm a novice type designer and still have a lot to learn, but I can offer a little bit of a few things that I feel when looking at your face.

1) I haven't quite figured out the logic of your rounded corners vs. your squared off corners. I don't see any consistency in that design aspect.

2) Watch the weight of your strokes and stems, for example your K needs more weight on the strokes because your stem looks much heavier. On your R the bowl needs to be heavier and the weight of your junction strokes need to be consistent with your D and B.

3) Your X doesn't quite make sense to me, it seems you're going for a sans serif with a high stroke contrast... I think you can play it up more with this character. The rounded corners also don't quite work for me.

4) The Q has too many features. I would simplify it.

5) Your "c" has the perception of being too narrow in comparison to your b, d, and e. Your e and c look like they're from different planets.

6) V and A need a closer relationship.

7) None of your hooks (J, j, g, y) have a consistent style.

8) Crossbar of "t" is too heavy.

I hope that's not too harsh. All in all, I like the ideas, but if this face is to be used at all for body copy you have to limit the number of features. People should read words, not identify individual letters. While your letters are nice to look at, there doesn't seem to be a complete harmony between them yet. I think what you have posted is a definite improvement over before, and I have seen your other type designs posted here as well and I think you have a promising future ahead. I hope this helps, good luck.

Some definite improvements. Still gotta watch your bowl balance and junction strokes. At the very least your J and j have to match stylistically. By the way, what is your purpose for this face?

Here is another revision and two examples of possible uses. ...more

Absolutely amazing. About 5 or 6 years ago, when I started messing around with Font Design, I created a typeface almost exactly to what you have created here. I have since ditched the font for a later revival. Absolutely amazing. I'll post a picture of it when I get home from work, my very old website wasn't archived on the 'way back' machine.

I'm sorry to disapoint, however; not only is this the first time I've ever seen your font but I also fail to see any similarities between "whipple" and kisbefe2 beyond the fact that they are both sans serif. Whipple has irregular strokes and a handwritten feel (the loop in the "d" or the exit stroke on the "t" are two examples).

Frankly, were I not convinced that your "I'm not saying that you copied my font by any means" is not an attempt at apophasis so much as a poor choice of words, I would be offended by the implication of your statement and amazed that you would attempt to make such a tenuous connection. The evolution of kisbefe2 can be traced through this forum from its beginnings as a one hour doodle shown here (thread here) to a more mature but still rather poor face called KisbefeSans and later just Kisbefe. The proportions, stress, and style are very different.

Here is a slightly more refined version of the text style. tbiddy, hrant, or anyone else, would you care to comment?

hrant, how about now?
Thanks,
-Noah

Your "E" and "F" are too narrow as well.

The hook on your lowercase g still draws too much attention.

There are a lot of proportion issues here that you should work out first. Your stem and stroke weights are also inconsistent. I would say you should take a break for awhile and really make some major adjustments before posting. Look at Optima and study other typefaces with high stroke contrast.

> If more people on this board were willing to take the time
> to aid beginners such as myself everyone would benefit.

Yyyup.

hhp

Wow Noah, some MAJOR improvements here. Two things that jump out at me, your "c" and "e" widths need to match more closely and the hook of your "y" doesn't work for me. I think you can go a little more ornate with your "y". All in all...great tweaking from the last showing.

Listen to your typeface. What I mean by that is look at the structure of your other characters to see what best matches. What I would do is look to the hook of your "g". If that doesn't work, try other parts of your characters to match a consistent flow. You're getting really close...

Regular, Italic, Bold. Any suggestions on the Italic? It is narrower than the roman, but not by much and is more an oblique than an italic. I crave feedback (how am I supposed to learn [short of paying for a course, something I would do if I could] if those who could teach me remain silent?)