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Hey guys,
This is my second-ever type design project and I'd like to get some feedback on it. The attached pdf is a bit of a type specimen I was required to do for the project which hopefully shows most of what you would need to see to critique it. I obviously have a ton to learn but I'm loving type design thus-far.
It's meant to be a vertically accented strong geometric slab serif for display. The No7 represents a weight system I plan on implementing, with each font file in the family having a corresponding number value from 0-9.
I'm also now beginning research on how to get all the diacritical marks/alternate characters to actually work outside of the glyph window, so for the moment they don't work but hopefully will soon.
For some reason the image won't attach so I'm stuck with the pdf for now.
Thanks a lot,
—Brian
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24 Apr 2011 — 9:10am
is there a way to get serifs working on C,G,S, c,and s
The arm on R looks like it curves inward but the overall
look is nice. p and q look wider than g
24 Apr 2011 — 7:17pm
Thanks for the feedback. I fixed the g width issue. I'm open to suggestions about the CGScs serifs, but everything I've tried thusfar has been too heavy/awkward looking. Perhaps when I do the lighter weights those can come in, but honestly the slight mix of a few sans serif characters doesn't bother me.
Could you clarify what you mean on the R?
4 May 2011 — 5:19am
perhaps it's an illusion but I thought the arm of R went inwards slightly – looking at the pdf it's perfectly in line with the bowl above it– just doesn't look like it is.but I have had some long nights recently
23 Jun 2011 — 10:19pm
First off : Keep going! Great work on the face, and nice work on the presentation as well.
I would maybe nudge you to look at the typeface from the angle of evenness of color. Perhaps you could use color as a guide to start introducing optical adjustments to individual characters (and inform the kerning / sidebar situation down the line)
I wouldn't be afraid to deviate here and there from the geometric ruleset you have in place in order to firm up the appearance of mathematic perfection (never quite one and the same).
( which I'm sure you're aware of, but I would maybe go even further )
For instance, the uc M,W, N all pop out to me as darker in that block of uppercase text. There are also cases like the alternate lc a, or the lc b, where the diminishing joint between bowl and stem lightens the color. It thus may be worthwhile to investigate slightly compensating by narrowing the bowls, etc etc.
I think the way you get from A to Ω would totally be a couple dozen cycles of printing out, tweaking and repeating for this project.