Chennai Update

Posted by Jeremy Dooley in

Sans Serif

30 Sep 2009 — 1:02pm

Chennai is a simplified sans serif that was first available in 2007. It also includes a number of more traditional alternate forms. I enjoying coming back to older work and making modifications and adding additional weights, and am planning a rounded slab serif based on this design. I've attached a preview image below including the thin, regular and black weights. I welcome constructive comments. Thanks!

Bendy
3 Oct 2009 — 4:55pm

Oh! Cute!

Difficult to get the whole idea from this image. Would you post a pdf with character sets?

Martijn van Berkel
6 Oct 2009 — 1:36pm

Nice!

It reminds me of the Spore font :)

Kind regards,
Martijn van Berkel

Jeremy Dooley
6 Oct 2009 — 2:45pm

Thank you for taking a look. A 4 pg .pdf sample with some revisions is available here:.pdf

Thanks for passing on that link to spore. Interesting!

Jeremy Dooley

www.insignedesign.com

Jeremy Dooley
16 Oct 2009 — 1:29pm

Made a few minor updates to Chennai. There are three main styles. The swash alternates add more of the curved stems/tails (line 1 and 7). The stylistic alternates convert the lowercase simple forms to more traditional, Futura like forms and the caps are the traditional forms for X W Y and A, etc, and B, D, P, etc. are not longer rounded (scattered through the preview). The titling alternates get rid of the "tails." (line 2)

Chennai PDF here.

Please take a look and give me some feedback. How is the 'e' looking?

I've also attached a preview of Chennai Slab. The lowercase ball terminals on the s are a problem. I am thinking that for the black weight, I will drop the ball terminals.

Chennai Slab PDF here.