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Font Aid IV: Ampersand Entries
Posted by francis bold in
24 Jan 2010 — 1:50pm
24 Jan 2010 — 1:50pm
For those who have contributed to the Font Aid IV Project, I thought it would be cool to get a cheeky preview of what you lovely people submitted.
Its not necessarily a crit, just a place to see what different styles and variations you come up with. Feel free to comment how you wish tho.
I went for a simple, circley, wiggly, snowman style :)
And off course what a great thing the Font Aid team are doing to raise money for this tragedy. Good to know there's so many caring people out there.
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5 Feb 2010 — 10:24am
I really like the second one, Alan!
5 Feb 2010 — 10:34am
Alan's first is lovely! The black and white are nicely balanced in the bottom swirl. And it's clever how the form of the lowercase e is incorporated.
5 Feb 2010 — 10:59am
Absolutely, the first one is a fantastic confluence of Eastern and Western aesthetics, and the second one is a very clever play of basic geometrics.
5 Feb 2010 — 12:03pm
"Coming Together" the benefit fundraiser font is coming together!
Still not done yet, but here's how it's looking so far.
Should be ready some time next week, vectors permitting.
How does it look so far? Brilliant!
Great job, everybody.
5 Feb 2010 — 12:34pm
Thanks for volunteering your help, Chank!
5 Feb 2010 — 8:00pm
I think I finally "get: the ampersand after seeing all these great interpretations of it. :o)
Nice work everyone, and I second Chris's vote of thanks to Chank.
5 Feb 2010 — 9:12pm
Hello. Here you are my two cents. I was glad to participate.
6 Feb 2010 — 8:48am
Great one, Cesar!
7 Feb 2010 — 12:07am
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Just another doodle study for the series of ampersand posters
planned for Spring.
All proceeds to help Haiti.
...
Nice effort chank!
10 Feb 2010 — 3:41pm
okay, here's how it's looking now.
almost all done. hope this previews okay... it's kinda big...
-chank
10 Feb 2010 — 4:36pm
Lookin good!
10 Feb 2010 — 4:47pm
Great great great!!!
What a fun thing!
10 Feb 2010 — 4:48pm
My favourite was this one:
10 Feb 2010 — 4:50pm
I'm now lost.
10 Feb 2010 — 4:51pm
but I might find it again,
10 Feb 2010 — 4:53pm
pick yor favourite.
10 Feb 2010 — 4:55pm
There's some really cool stuff in there.
hhp
10 Feb 2010 — 5:00pm
Eikös tuo jälkeläinen pidä kättään sinun yllä?
10 Feb 2010 — 5:25pm
Hrant, I like this one.
11 Feb 2010 — 5:25am
nnnnice!
11 Feb 2010 — 7:00am
@chang, no sign of mine in the final draft. Nice job - I would love to be part of this! :0
11 Feb 2010 — 8:39am
it's in there, mr. boardman. second line down, fourth from the right. looks like a lifeboat. nice work!
my favorite changes from day to day. today's fave are those 3 crazy ones in the middle of the top row. you can't tell how intricate they are in this gif, but they are quite ornate and completely chaotic and organic.
everybody did such a good job with this project. so proud I was able to get so many glyphs in there and keep the final OTF file size under 300K. fontlab and opentype work like magic sometimes.
-chank
11 Feb 2010 — 11:29am
chank - who did those 3 that you're talking about? It sure looks like my friend Weeman's work. Andy Martin is his real name.
pbc
12 Feb 2010 — 12:59pm
hey Paul C - nope, not Weeman I don't think. they're from Sorin Bechira, (www.bechira.com) -chank
15 Feb 2010 — 11:59am
It's for sale! http://www.typesociety.org/fontaid.html
Help spread the word. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
15 Feb 2010 — 12:15pm
I just bought a copy from Veer. It looks good! Thanks, Chank and Michelle and all who helped!
16 Feb 2010 — 2:57am
Great cause & great work by all. I should participate more, and lurk less...
16 Feb 2010 — 9:48am
Hey Chris, I just made that purchase at Veer, too. I'm encouraging everyone I know to buy Coming Together, even if it's the first time they've ever bought a font. I'm looking at the typeface in FontExplorer and marvelling at what Chank put together… and wondering whose ampersand I get when I type & (shift+7), i.e. glyph ID 53.
16 Feb 2010 — 9:59am
Glyph ID 53 is by Kent Lew. He posted it earlier in this thread.
Someone is working on a PDF speciman that will map each ampersand to the name of the designer who created it. It's a lot of work, but hopefully we'll have it ready in a few days.
16 Feb 2010 — 10:11am
I got into the office this morning hit the send button on an email I'd already prepared and addressed to "All", telling the 3000 or so people where I work about this.
16 Feb 2010 — 1:21pm
Michelle: Thank you, thank you, thank you for persevering through that daunting task.
17 Feb 2010 — 11:18am
Thanks Dave!
The font is also available now through FontShop and MyFonts:
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/foundry/sota/
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fontaid/coming-together/
11 Sep 2011 — 5:33pm
There was an article about Garfield's "Just My Type" in today's LA Times,
and the sole illustration was from Font Aid IV! So, who are the lucky nine?
hhp
12 Sep 2011 — 11:18am
Probably picked by the LA Times Art department?
11 Sep 2011 — 11:48pm
(Whee! Top-left is mine.) Looks like an exact reproduction of the 9 Font Aid ampersands that are pictured in Just My Type; Ben got a photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohbendy/5310009511/
12 Sep 2011 — 11:19am
You are right, Nina; I have the book and smiled when I saw that page :-)