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Suomi Sans
Posted by Tomi from Suomi in
31 Mar 2006 — 2:16am
31 Mar 2006 — 2:16am
This is one of four fonts/families I'm currently working on. There are Suomi Script, Serif and Slab Serif.
This one is a fairly narrow font with a hint of calligraphic forms attached for a bit of character. I have finished the Roman and Italics ranges, and currently working with the Small Caps, OSF, and some OT features…
What do you think?
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31 Mar 2006 — 3:33am
Nice work.
Two pence from me though:
In my opinion (and going by what i can make out of the image supplied), for the sake of consistency, it would be worth a try to have that calligraphic, "broken" stroke also on lc u, n, m, etc, in the same vein as it is featured in s and o.
the second thing is that your weights appear smaller with increasing weight (which is a known phenomenon), for my liking you should increase your x-height a bit with each weight compared to the respective lighter one, to compensate for that effect (I assume that all your weights share an identical x-height?).
31 Mar 2006 — 4:12am
Thank you very much for the insights.
And sorry about the limited sample; I seem to have some problems uploading attachemts…
In fact I have a logic (of sorts) to the "broken" strokes: they are on the upper left, and lower right, to follow the nib of a pen. th lc u, n etc. are cut before the intake.
On the second thing you are right; I haven't incerased the x-height. I should do that to compensate the mass of the glyphs. Thanks.
13 Feb 2008 — 2:58pm
Kiva! Looks like if it's quite unique! But sinun täytyisi näyttää enemmän! Terveisiä Berliinistä!