Oh come now. Yes, the font lacks legibility, but if it weren't possible to deduce what a certain letter is by context, then this sort of thing wouldn't exist:
I don't know if Tanya is kidding, but the quote is
: to me design is merely a language. : : a means of communication :
tibor kalman
John, the concept is good and the context/readability/legibility question is worthy of a book. (book deal: Hrant, you should write a book on some of this stuff.) I call this process of creating letterforms the Lineto/fusion method. Everybody I'm sure has seen the great stuff at lineto.com. I think every gridchild has messed around with Digital variations. Miles Newlyn has a pretty good one.
You're posting this for criticism...so some of the letters -- b, k, m, v, x -- well they seem too dark. But unless you stray from the beginning forms, what can you do?
the 'b' could be light like the 'd'
the k and the x, wow, those are difficult using the forms.
I understand your context point, but maybe there's another solution to some of those darker letters to make it the forms more legible.
I seriously did have a problem with the t. I understood it in 'communication' but was having a hard time with the space between what I thought was "SO ME" "Some design is merely a language" so I ignored the dot (which I thought could have been decorative) and stated the obvious form "L"
of course I knew I was wrong.
For me the problem is mixing up lower case letterforms with uppercase letterforms in crazy display format.
Good job John. I find this font very fun. I am not sure what it would be used for, but it is a clever twist on an older design. I think perhaps even Miles Newlyn experimented with this type of design a few years ago, it was however not so bubbly.
28 Aug 2002 — 9:15am
This is perfect. For all those fashionable digital devices that have organic bodies. But I think it needs more legibility.
hhp
28 Aug 2002 — 5:09pm
LO ME. JESIGN IS
MERELY A LANGUAGE.
A MEANS OF
COMMUNICALION
did I get it right?
28 Aug 2002 — 7:25pm
Oh come now. Yes, the font lacks legibility, but if it weren't possible to deduce what a certain letter is by context, then this sort of thing wouldn't exist:
28 Aug 2002 — 9:09pm
I don't know if Tanya is kidding, but the quote is
: to me design is merely a language. :
: a means of communication :
tibor kalman
John, the concept is good and the context/readability/legibility question is worthy of a book. (book deal: Hrant, you should write a book on some of this stuff.) I call this process of creating letterforms the Lineto/fusion method. Everybody I'm sure has seen the great stuff at lineto.com. I think every gridchild has messed around with Digital variations. Miles Newlyn has a pretty good one.
You're posting this for criticism...so some of the letters -- b, k, m, v, x -- well they seem too dark. But unless you stray from the beginning forms, what can you do?
the 'b' could be light like the 'd'
the k and the x, wow, those are difficult using the forms.
I understand your context point, but maybe there's another solution to some of those darker letters to make it the forms more legible.
bj
29 Aug 2002 — 3:51pm
John, I appreciate the core idea behind this... but I think
it has major problems if it's indeed intended to be LCD
or backlit.
Or are you designing a display face for print use
that merely looks like a backlit face? In which case you
have a lot more freedom.
29 Aug 2002 — 4:14pm
It is just for fun.
29 Aug 2002 — 7:13pm
I seriously did have a problem with the t. I understood it in 'communication' but was having a hard time with the space between what I thought was "SO ME" "Some design is merely a language" so I ignored the dot (which I thought could have been decorative) and stated the obvious form "L"
of course I knew I was wrong.
For me the problem is mixing up lower case letterforms with uppercase letterforms in crazy display format.
30 Aug 2002 — 5:05am
Good job John. I find this font very fun. I am not sure what it would be used for, but it is a clever twist on an older design. I think perhaps even Miles Newlyn experimented with this type of design a few years ago, it was however not so bubbly.
31 Aug 2002 — 10:46am
Thanks everyone for your comments, positive and negative.
31 Aug 2002 — 10:49am
Starting to look kind like the Autobot/Decepticon logos -- am I dating myself?
31 Aug 2002 — 12:11pm
the cross bar on the top of the b is not needed. the K is looking more like an M. G is very close to a 9. t is still hard, but easier to read.
Have you tried sticking to just uppercase?
2 Sep 2002 — 10:24am
the shape of the "t" is very very hard to identify."v" and "k" are too similar... and also quite hard to catch...