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Readable or non-readable "B" and "D"
Posted by tourdeforce in
11 Aug 2010 — 10:37am
11 Aug 2010 — 10:37am
I'm having one dilemma.
Do you find that those "B" and "D" are readable or non-readable?
Does they look to you more like some ligatures or recognizable letters "B" and "D" ?
Thanks.
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13 Aug 2010 — 8:55am
B looks like 13, specially on the light weight.
D looks like D
13 Aug 2010 — 12:03pm
Thanks Pablo.
Back on thinking.
13 Aug 2010 — 2:55pm
I think it looks like a B, but it’s very much dependent on the context.
13 Aug 2010 — 3:24pm
This is one old sketch done very quickly then, so there are a lot irregularities in overall layout and whole concept.
A couple of people told me that /B/ and /D/ would look very strange and not enough recognizable as those letters. So that started bugging me more and more.
25 Aug 2010 — 8:24am
I think it’s the right-pointing lower terminal (also seen in b) which appears problematic.
25 Aug 2010 — 8:53am
What Frode said.
Have you tried having the bottom-left corner of those two characters just as a single curve? (ie, not separate strokes; keeping that characteristic curl at the foot, but then running straight on into the bowl?)