Hopefully to exist in four weights sometime this summer.

Fiasco. Soon to arrive...

From soon to not so very soon:

OK, I got some Kind-a noive posting my type designs in this company... These’s no getting around the fact that I’m at the type design greenhorn stage. I may or may not ever get around to releasing some of the typefaces I’ve got on the go - eventually...

any hoo - Mean time:

Clearly still in need of work.
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Jos, I just wanted to let you know that I’m really looking forward to Museo Sans. Although I’m hesitant to name any one typeface my favorite, Museo definitely ranks up there, and I find myself going back to it in project after project.

Was that Museo I noticed on the Tony Awards?

None of them have any kerning (I didn’t get to that point on any of them) and I think I suck at spacing, everything’s always too loose or too tight… also, I’m just now beginning to grasp contrast control and I still haven’t given a real shot at figures… anyway, they’re all work in progress from someone still learning and practicing. So, in chronological order:

Sorry for spamming such large images, but I wanted to show them up close…

ruD

Ruben…you really need to space those and release them. Because they’re gorgeous.

Ruben, I agree with James.

Other James, I checked, and I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t Museo during the Tonys. The serifs are different (look at the S).

This is a pointed brush script that’s getting close to completion.
Stephen

Agamemnon still needs some tweaks, but I expect a simple version will be ready to go shortly after I complete an equipment upgrade. I have a bunch of other projects on the back burner too.

Jos, I just wanted to let you know that I’m really looking forward to Museo Sans. Although I’m hesitant to name any one typeface my favorite, Museo definitely ranks up there, and I find myself going back to it in project after project.

Thank you Eric. That’s really great! For Museo Sans I’m also planning an italic, so it will take me longer to finish, but I expect to release it this year.

@ Ruben: Nice work!

Agilita is my latest design and released by Linotype.
Some of my current work is displayed below.

great thread!!!

Just released: Capsa.

You can find more info here: http://www.typophile.com/node/46461

Dino dos Santos
DSTYPE

They are all very, very much in progress… It’s just a matter of (a lot of) time.

Pieter

Well, thank you James, DrDoc and Jos! :)
I’ve been starting to pay attention to scripts, and I really like these. Particularly Stephen’s.
BTW, Dino, don’t you need an intern or something…? ;P That’s another great typeface.

Indeed, a great thread!

ruD

Other James, I checked, and I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t Museo during the Tonys. The serifs are different (look at the S).
(needle-scratch sound effect)
Now I’ll have to figure out what it actually is.

over on the critique forum:

http://www.typophile.com/node/45498

Tom, There is already a very well known typeface called Utopia.

Nick Cooke

Great thread. Promoted to front page.

Yeh I know, designed by Robert Slimbach. It is my final year design project, it aint going to be released.

Tom

Orbe Pro. Just released at www.Fountaintype.com

:O

Another fellow portuguese typophile! I won’t write in portuguese so as to not let anyone out of the conversation.
Rui, that’s really great. Was it inspired in something in particular? In some way, it does have a certain portuguese feel to it, but I don’t know what it is or why I would feel that.
Just curious. I’d like to see those originals.

ruD

Dino: I gave your Leitura a hard time a while back, but there’s no secret that you are very talented. I like Capsa a lot. Dstype is bookmarked.

Frode

Thanks for your comments.
It’s a fact that sometimes I get over excited with ligatures,
but that’s only my baroque side expressing itself :-)

Dino

Here are links to a PDF sample and the font page at Veer for my new design Memoir. Its not officially a web release as yet (those haven’t been updated since March), but it is in the printed catalog and buried in the collection.

http://www.veer.com/download/pdf/memoir_specimen.pdf

http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000329

Stephen

ps. I’d post an image here, but I’m at my day job presently.

Ruben, viva!

I got to know this forms mainly in old portuguese books I found, but they come from inscriptions on portuguese monuments of “estilo manuelino”. Their are very beautiful actually, and i think that the baroque way that these calligraphic forms, tending to the uncial capitals, are composed together (and not as page capital) is very portuguese. We can find this forms carved in some monuments but I would like know more, maybe on “Forais” we can see good examples as well.

Pieter I love love love to ∞² your work. One of my favorite fonts of all time is your work for KPN... those bastard. :-)

I’m really diggin’ your Caponi too.

Please keep us posted!

Mike Diaz :-)

Obrigado, Rui. I really should pay more attention when visiting monuments… :P

ruD

PIETER:

Your Stanley Stencil is my favorite so far. Really nice work!

Engrez — Regular + Bold.
Sorry, yet an another boring squarish sans in his way.

This is Router, to be released very soon through Village.

I have typophile to thank for all the people I met through here, and all the great feedback and support I’ve gotten.

A little spacing work is left to be done, and intermediate weights will be interpolated...

pdf here

Here’s Marua.

She’s still having some plastic surgery done, but will be beautiful in no time. Lots of work to still do.
Check her out in the critique section also: http://typophile.com/node/43499

JLM> Michael Abbink has typeface in the works also named Router:

http://www.daidala.com/router.html

Arlo, that lowercase alternate for q is HOT.

@James

I saw a sample of futura that had one and fell in love.

Just released at PSY/OPS, Exemplar Pro:

I’m working on pencilPete, a handwritten font:

Satya - that’s nice and clean, and the text is about Brimham Rocks; 10 miles north of where I live.

Nick Cooke

Thanks Nick!

This is a Latin typeface I have been working along with my final degree project here with the Dalton Maag. Since my project is about a few Indian scripts I thought It would be a good idea(from the learning point of view) to work on a Latin typeface simultaneously.

Btw, where is your studio in London?

Brimham Rocks is not 10 miles north of London - it’s in Yorkshire ;^)

Nick Cooke

Well, these are my ‘projects’:

the first one, pince-nez

the second is a font I designed for a project promoted by my studio. We designed an illustrated version of italian Costitution for the 60th anniversay (and, well, maybe the last one). We needed a font to print the text at small size. I’m planning to finish the font and add an italic. (Images of the big illustrated constitution, are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramme_design/)

Pince-nez is nice too!

This is the Typophile thread to end all threads. Very inspiring.

I guess this will run forever. The mother of self promotion.

This is the Typophile thread to end all threads. Very inspiring.

Kind of hits my inferiority complex, tho. Ruben’s fonts are so pretty I’m tempted to get a job just so I’ll have work to use them in when he releases them!

One of the things I’m working on is a revival of Filmotype Ginger:

The other stuff I’m keeping under my hat for now.

A few early bits from a National expansion.

Like Mark, the rest can stay under my hat for the time being.

Oh, and this little bit of lettering for Wild Flour.

This is the Typophile thread to end all threads.

It ends all my budding aspirations to ever try and create a font.

Capsa and Agilita are my favourites. Well, until the next gorgeous image ...

Almost forgot this one, soon available at Fountain – Flieger.

Yes, this thread should keep going!

Let’s keep the fire burning

Miles, am a big fan of Modena.

Kris, the WILD FLOUR lettering is gorgeous!

Rui, I loved the ORBE and the promotional animation even more.

Hi still working on this...
António Fonseca

@Rui: That’ll go nicely with Orbe! Although this one sort of feels french, to me. Or maybe english… nah, probably french. It’s too “pretty” to be english. :P
@James: That’s too much, really… I really appreciate (and desperately need) compliments, but that’s just too much! :P BTW, are you sure you really want a job? I know I don’t. I’d much rather ride my bycicle, design type and play the guitar every day just for the fun of it. And as long as I can, that’s exactly what I’ll do. :P

I think my favourite so far is Orbe. There’s something familiar about familiarity… :P I think it’s striking, all quirky and flourished and yet still quite homogenous. AND it makes me feel comfortable. :P Seriously, I really like it.

Since I had gotten in a tizzy about the US Post Office building lettering, I set straight to work on creating it as a font. I matched the cap forms exactly although some need some tweaks. Once I had gotten most of the caps done I decided to see just for kicks if I could make a style appropriate lowercase and was pleased with my result . . . It has lots of problems right now but I hope to get it in good order soon!

ChrisL

A **** research project, excuse my French, that’s going nowhere, and three full books.

—
Joe Clark
http://joeclark.org/

A couple in progress.

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www.haildesign.com.au

This is Trapstruct, an ink-trap experiment made in Fontstruct.

Available for free from http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/trapstruct.

I like everything above, specially Capsa, and Orbe. Awesome!

I’m a bit slacking off with my typefaces at the moment, but this is some of the more promising (to me) stuff I’ve been working on – there’s more, but you wouldn’t want want to see it.

Clara, a slightly rounded sans:

Berto (working name, it will be probably changed), an extra-light/extra-bold/big x-height sans:

Some numbers in the modern/pointed-nib pen style with extreme contrast (hairlines are 1em unit wide) and influences from all over the place, from Figgins (Elephant, Falstaff) to Didot, Bodoni etc. I’ve been drawing these in the past few days, as an exercise (8 is not done yet):

Sweet mother of me, those are some juicy numbers!

Another one I m working hard is Adios Script - 2009

Some great work guys!! totally off subject i know (apologies!!!) but could you check out the font on this typophile post and let me know what you think, its a new logo http://typophile.com/node/46557

Why thank you!!

http://www.adelto.co.uk

Here’s two sans things I’ve been playing around with recently…

Been working on this, off and on, for over two years. Not sure I’ll ever get it finished!

here they are...

Wasn’t there also a Sofa Sans and Serif?

Sofa is Canapé (top left). I could not include all weights and styles in this mini-images, so i chose sans roman and serif italic swash.

Anyone remember that godawful constructivist font I did in Spring 2007? For some horrible reason it’s coming back as some sort of deranged unicase with alternates. Seriously, I should really be working on the good-looking fonts I have in the cooker.

This is my Herb, which I designed during the MA Typeface Design course in Reading:

There is some great stuff on this thread, but I especially like Herb Tim. The really heavy weights look fantastic. It has a certain ancient/modern quality. You certainly learned a lot at Reading!

Nick Cooke

Here’s a brief snapshot of the typeface that I’ll be finishing up at Reading over the next few weeks. No name yet (it isn’t named Berlin…).

Nick, thanks for your comment!

Dan, that looks quite cool, I like the spiky serifs. Is that a condensed version there (Decision times)?

Go, Danno!!! a fine looking face cooking there! I like that you named your friends and co-workers in the sample. How is it to do Indic script?

ChrisL

Tim:
Yes, “Decision times” is a Condensed Roman. I also have a Condensed Black in the works. But these two condensed fonts, but my normal Black used to set “Berlin” won’t be submitted as part of the project when the deadline arrives. I made these for MM work. In the future, I’ll expand those along with the rest of the family, though.

Chris:
Oh, that Akira, Nadine, Otmar & Rob’s names appear in line 2 is just because I am lazy :(
Earlier this afternoon, I sent them a more in-depth look at the font than is posted here, and I reused some of those lines for this.

Working on an Indic script is tremendous fun.

Sebastian, the ‘ck’ ligature looks great.

Jon.

I really like the work Reading students have been doing.
I too MUST go there someday!

Dan! I really like how that is looking!

Me too, I think it is great, Dan. This whole thread is wonderful. You are a talented bunch!

Sharon

If the Reading students don’t stop posting I’m going to leave my boyfriend and go to Reading without him.

James, at Reading you don’t have time for a relationship anyway. Just leave him stateside, and visit him on holidays. Bringing him along might prove quite stressful, as you’d spend so little time together. Several of us this year have significant others outside of the country. Until now, it has been great for all of us. And it proves for many nice getaways

Dan, I never thought about it that way. I guess I could just tell him to up the housekeeping service to coming weekly and tell the neighbor to make sure the dogs get fed.

Need to find a way to go to Reading :)
Problems to solve or to harmonise with this idea: money, relationships ...

Tim, Herb is excellent. I agree with previous statements that the heavier weight is especially good looking.

Wow, there is some seriously sweet stuff in this thread.... I am knocked out.

Antonio’s figures are awesome! How do you do that?

Thanks André. I’ve been posting part of the process to make these numbers on my Flickr account. They’re not done yet, of course: 6 and 9 are a bit too narrow and I have alternate forms in the works. It’s been a fun exercise so far.

Questo cinque è veramente bello.

Hello all! First post from a long-term lurker. I know the world doesn’t need another interpretation of a French sixteenth-century face, but there’s great fun in the making of it. The italic is limping a long way behind...

Great thread and great stuff everyone. Particularly liked Dan Reynold’s, David Sudweeks’ and Verbosus’ work. Few things knocking around way too long...

Good Lord this is some beautiful stuff.

Agreed. First time through this thread, and I... uh... think I need to go wash up.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT!!!!

GOOD JOB!!!

You’re all killing me with this great work. Every image is another typeface I need to lust after or lettering I envy. Great work all around! There are just too many to call out individually.

What a great thread.

Most of ’em are good and I like them, but a few works here are lame and lacking any “want it” vibes.

It’s really funny how people pretend some of these turkeys are golden.

j a m e s

who says anyone’s pretending j a m e s ?

Uhh–yah, there are “turkeys” here, but not all of them.

Then again; a “turkey” to me is not a turkey to you.

There are many wonder things here— I’m focused on those.

Mine does kind have drumsticks. hmm...

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Whisk in progress. I’m still tweaking, tweaking tweaking. Hopefully I’ll have a complete family by 2009.

@dux: I’m the person who said people are “pretending”. That’s who says, if you want a strait answer. A more convoluted answer—I use that word in relation to people jumping onto bandwagons, because doing that involves pretense, a willingness to go along with what others are saying and subscribe to the current buzz.

But of course I could be wrong about that. Maybe there is no bandwagon here and nobody is pretending, but instead voicing praise for what they genuinely like and believe are designs of merit. Maybe I’m just using “pretend” as a euphemism for “say”.

Mikey, I didn’t say all of them are turkeys. I did say “Most of ’em are good and I like them”. I then gave more wordage to the dark side, because doing that is part of my nature. I guess your nature is to focus on the wonderous things (correct me if I’m wrong). There is room in this universe for both kinds of people. You and I, everybody.

j a m e s

I thought you had retired from being so harsh? You posted a big apology and everyone wished you well…

Yes James, there is room both people.

But let’s keep this thread positive please. Please guys don’t get into it.

I want the designers to feel free to share whatever their usually secret projects are with us.

They may not want to share for fear of getting picked on.

So let’s not criticize in this thread—that’s not what this thread is all about.

When these designs are released then we can tear them up later (James). But not here please.

Mikey :-)

Besides, many of these I’m sure are in the Critique forum section. (Mine is, as linked in my earlier post.) It is perfectly all right to rip the projects apart there, in the interest of improving them, of course

Joachim Lapiak>
Whisk kinda reminds me of a Chapparal Sans. A cheery sans- nice.

Mikey :-)

Based on my love of USB Memory sticks. Mmmm.

Updated to Opentype - releasing soon

Great thread! I’m bookmarking it. Lots of great fonts.

Adios and Pince-nez are both winners and Ruben get those fonts finished and out there.

I’m working on that last one and will soon post it around here for some critiques. Thank you for making me feel like these are worth it, Patty, even if I know they could be considered turkeys. That’s important, because I know my designs will get better and better, but I need some love to shuffle along. :P James Arboghast, I hope you shoot me down when I post it, because I do need love but I also like balance in my life. ;)
Some more nice stuff!

Type in progress with personality (or disorder)

ChrisL

People, I avoided critiquing any one particular font for precisely the reasons you’ve pointed out. This isn’t a critique thread and it isn’t in the critique forum, so critiques of individual faces here would be inappropriate. Even so I think it’s reasonable to post critical observations of what is going on. Evidently that upsets some people, those who are intolerant of dissent within a group.

@1985: I thought you had retired from being so harsh? You posted a big apology and everyone wished you well…

That’s a simplistic summary of what happened, and misleading. I only retired from being Typophile’s moral and civil conduct moderator. Rather different from retiring “...from being so harsh”. Nothing is what it seems.

j a m e s

That’s really not the point, James. I think the main problem people will see in your first post will be that you weren’t forthright and that you were implying something bad mostly about people and not exactly about the designs (although, of course, you did say some were turkeys). I think it would have been less of a problem if you had actually said you found this one or that one “not as good” (of course, you could say you found them complete rubbish) or if you asked someone “are you serious, do you really like THIS?!”. But you said nothing like that; instead, you chose to imply that some people (not even mentioning any names) were not being honest to other people and/or to themselves. That’s a pretty bold statement that could’ve been taken harshly, a lot more so than what actually happened; fortunately, we all seem to be quite civilized and almost phlegmatic, which, come to think about it, I’m not sure is that good. :P
Anyway, everything’s fine, nobody made a big deal out of it and it really wasn’t one. But I do want you to criticize my designs, because you seem like a guy with stuff to say! I give you carte blanche. :P

ruD

By going against the flow I put myself in contempt of the majority. I apologize for that. This thread shouldn’t be about me. The best strategy for dealing with it is to, 1) Turn the other cheek, let my comments stand and continue with discussion of the real topic, 2) Those who want to criticize me should start another thread RfC: is Arbo forthright?

RfC stands for Request for Comment. Separate the moderation process from typo discussion please.

Personal remarks about Typophilers as people don’t belong at Typophile, or frankly, anywhere on the internet. That’s why I wasn’t “forthright”, as you put it. I avoided making remarks about any one person. In summary: the world invites deception, and I am very keen to point out when it happens.

I think it would have been less of a problem if you had actually said you found this one or that one “not as good” (of course, you could say you found them complete rubbish) or if you asked someone “are you serious, do you really like THIS?!”.

If I’d said something like that it would have been a much bigger problem. It’s not a critique thread and critical remarks about individual faces just don’t belong here. Picking on an individual font or an individual person would be hitting below the belt.

Please go on posting fonts and with discussion of the fonts.

But I do want you to criticize my designs, because you seem like a guy with stuff to say!

Sorry, but I can’t fit font critiques into my schedule any more.

j a m e s

great font dezcom. The id weight has the feel of a ’Blur’ effect. I’m unsure as to whether the ego weight has a teutonic (late 19th century humanist-geometric) feel or that is a result of it being partially set in german.

Chris I really like this Boulder font. It has plenty of eccentric aspects or features but it holds together really well. I could read a whole article in that! My hat is off to you!

Some works in progress. Orla has been in proooooooogress for three years or so, Caisa is quite recent. Inspired by Voskens/Kis/Zinck and the sauce hollandois as some may notice.
Proper spacing &c this summer!

ƒ

Boulder rocks! Great stuff Chris!

Luke, Eben and Jos,
Thanks for your kind remarks about Boulder!
Luke, There was no particular intention to be teutonic. I used German text from the Freud website. Given that my typography teachers during the 1960s were from Ulm and Basel, I am not surprised that some of that feel surfaces in my work occasionally.

ChrisL

PS: Jos, Rock on! :-)

Some beautiful sans on display here. I especially love Lavinia Sans. And Capsa is simply to die for. After Leitura, yet another serif face that has me captivated.

Btw,

> Sorry, but I can’t fit font critiques into my schedule any more.

Wow. What a pompous individual you are. Being negative simply for the sake of it. I’ll refrain from giving you any more attention since that’s what seems to be the intent of your pointless posts.

Lovely work Chris. I think the new ’ego’ version really works well. It keeps the punch of the original—now ’id’—but is probably of wider application.

I LOVE THIS SITE!!! :-)

My favorites are: Whisk, Berto, Bubber, Engrez, Pinup loves, Agilita and Museo ...

I’m looking forward to buy your stuff guys... :-)

Thanks Kenneth. I’m hoping to release Museo Sans within the next few months.

PS: Jos, Rock on! :-)
Thanks Chris! U2 :-)

LOL!!! at least you didn’t call the Police or throw Stones at me, Jos :-)

ChrisL

Hahaha :-) Chris, you know I would NEVER do that.
I would rather eat Red Hot Chili Peppers and turn Deep Purple. :-)

Not a typeface, but some custom lettering started for a re-branding idea.

Ninfa in progress

ninfa looks like a cross between rumba and humana... very nice, especially the bold

Mikey :-)