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TYPE BATTLE: Week 14 (5 June)
Posted by Christian Robertson in
5 Jun 2006 — 6:10pm
5 Jun 2006 — 6:10pm
TYPE BATTLE: Week 14 (5 June)
Here's your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.
Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle14
Requirements:
- Size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and white only
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge.
// THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
// Design three alternate ampersands for one weight of one font.
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6 Jun 2006 — 1:12am
This is for an existing, known font, yes? (rather than for something of our own design)
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6 Jun 2006 — 11:36am
It can be for an existing font, one of your own, or something new.
6 Jun 2006 — 5:17pm
Take 5...
6 Jun 2006 — 9:59pm
1 & 2 & 3
6 Jun 2006 — 10:11pm
Sebastian, great job first off. Just wanted to point out something strange, not good, not bad, just something. Your second try reminds me of this, right off the bat (pun intended):
http://www.sportszoneusa.com/images/rawlings.jpg
7 Jun 2006 — 3:15am
7 Jun 2006 — 5:15am
Er, OK let's have a go at University Roman bold:
(the etymological, the traditional, and the er.. Zapfinical?)
Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster's stopped working.
9 Jun 2006 — 3:50pm
i can't help but feel like i'm going to get slaughtered for this, but what the heck. it was more fun than doing work..
13 Jun 2006 — 8:50pm
I've always hated the ampersand in Berthold City. Here's a few of my ideas. I like the second one the best.
- Lex
14 Jun 2006 — 1:30am
I like ’em. Yes, your three all fit the style of the text better than the original. Not absolutely sure about the third, but the first two sure should be in that font!
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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster's stopped working.
14 Jun 2006 — 3:43am
definitely better than the original.
I think the third one would work as well, but I would make the diagonal upstroke thinner (like in the original "e").
14 Jun 2006 — 9:17am
The third one was looking too thin when I originally drew it. I think I overcompensated. It was sort of a last minute throw-in anyway because we needed three. Here's the fix.
- Lex
14 Jun 2006 — 9:31am
it's funny how the one you 'force out' (like your last) sometimes ends up getting the most attention. i like all three, particularly the first, but i'm strangely drawn to the last as well, particularly with the improvement.
15 Jun 2006 — 1:37pm
"it’s funny how the one you ‘force out’ (like your last) sometimes ends up getting the most attention."
But I guess this is because the other two fit so well that there is no need to discuss them.
23 Jun 2006 — 11:00am
How did I miss this, a crying shame :(