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Zinc
this is my first font ever. it was made 2 years ago. i was thinking about redesigning it.
can you tell me what you like and what you hate about it?
thank you
www.upsite.demon.nl/zinc_book.gif
www.upsite.demon.nl/zinc_bold.gif
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16 Feb 2004 — 9:36am
Hello Maarten
looks nice to me but needs a lot of work I guess! Did you have it in biger gif? maybe Flash or PDF?
Book:
The diagonal line of the UC 'Z' is to bold. Guess it its the gif but the steams have diffrent with- Look at LC 'i' and 'n'. The 'c' seams to closed. Open it more like 'e'
UC 'H' and 'E': The middle horizontal line is in my eyes to high.
UC 'Q': The Tail .. uh its not my favorit but is also not the ugliest ;-) Maybe you should try some other solutions.
UC 'N': The width is to small I guess
UC 'M' and 'V': It seams that the inner is the same.. I dont like it and the bottom edge need to be more left.
UC 'P': I like this semi-lowercase caracter ot the top-left
Also Bottom-left of 'B' and 'D'
UC 'S': leans to the left... Maybe you have to him a crook ;-) just a joke *g*
Okay I will stop here otherwise u maybe get fustratated ...
Typedesign should make fun and not work! ;-)
Greets Jens
16 Feb 2004 — 10:53am
The W is so wide, it seems like it was dropped in from a different typeface. Try remaking the W from scratch, looking at the M for comparison. The hooky descenders are interesting; the j is the best-formed one and you may want to just transplant it to the others.
27 Feb 2004 — 1:27am
i made some sketches for a revisted zinc.
27 Feb 2004 — 5:44am
Nice, Maarten.
I just don't think that the curvy legs on hmn are working.
The f is falling to the left and the j is too exaggerated.
27 Feb 2004 — 9:24am
This is much better than the first iteration.
Your descenders seem to be of unequal depth, but in this case I think that's actually a great feature.
hhp
27 Feb 2004 — 3:05pm
i agree with Eduardo. curves a bit bit extreme. Otherwise a nice piece of work.
Ooops. I promised myself never to use the word "extreme" as it belongs to the WWF type's vocabulary.
27 Feb 2004 — 3:11pm
If you know that, then it's really too late anyway.
hhp
20 Oct 2004 — 2:06am
thanks guys
did you allready see the soma type i made?
greetings, mmm