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Illiad Sans Redesign
Posted by scannerlicker in
10 Feb 2010 — 6:26pm
10 Feb 2010 — 6:26pm
Hello everyone!
I'm redesigning a old project, a type family sketched in 2008. I would love to read your feedback, as I'm hoping on some really good insights as I share the redesign process here.
So, here's the sketch:
First two cents, anyone?
Thank you in advance. Cheers!
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11 Feb 2010 — 8:15am
Dump the gaps.
hhp
11 Feb 2010 — 10:43am
hrant: the f and t gaps?
11 Feb 2010 — 3:51pm
And the "x", and the "k"...
hhp
11 Feb 2010 — 5:25pm
hrant: Any reason for it? I think it's one of the elements that give personality to the typeface.
11 Feb 2010 — 5:35pm
This thing has tons of -nice- personality already.
To me the gaps give it a personality disorder. :-)
hhp
11 Feb 2010 — 5:39pm
I agree with Hrant: those gaps are too effective fixation points for comfortable reading. Your other design features are more than enough to make your font stand out. Loose the gaps, and you have a very good headline font.
11 Feb 2010 — 5:45pm
Tomi & Hrant: Ah, I got the point of it. Thank you both!
11 Feb 2010 — 10:15pm
The light italic looks very cool! The w is looking very narrow and thick in the bottom. It appears to look a little different in "ottawa". The a leans a little left for me, which is not a problem in the middle of a word, but at the beginning feels odd. I agree with whats being said about the gaps.
12 Feb 2010 — 7:52am
james: I also love the italic, thanks!
The "w" incoherence is something I'm struggling right now. The light version is very curvy, while the black is very orthogonal, and the resulting weights are interpolations of these two.
As for the "a", your right. The top bar is too wide.
Cheers!