Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
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I'm not sure whether a symmetric /Dzhe-cy would make sense in the context of the Titling cut, since it embraces handwriting-style letterforms, and handwritten /dzhe-cy is based on the handwritten /u shape as far as I can tell. It might also look too much like /Ustrait-cy or even /U-cy if it were symmetric. The regular cut of Quinoa has a symmetric (and angular) /Dzhe-cy, of course.
As for /dje-cy, I'm not sure what you mean... would you make it more circular? I don't know enough about the letter to know how far I'm allowed to tweak it. I do like its current shape, as it happens.
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/dje-cy could have a straight descender with a /j-like bend at the bottom.0
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My Latin /S was too open to serve as an Armenian /Տ, so I drew a more closed version. I love that new shape, but I think I can't promote it to become the new /S, since it doesn't fit as well with the other Latin caps, especially the /C... I guess I'll just have to start a new Latin font to accommodate that /S.
(Bottom is the Armenian /Տ)
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I tested a free style once and a lot people downloaded it. But none of them later bought something.2
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The thing is, that "R" makes me think the "S" doesn't care what the "C" thinks anyway...
To put it another way: this typeface might be more flamboyant than you may be allowing it to be.
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I don't think the /R has any say in what either /S or /C look like in most typefaces... and I rather feel that my typeface started out too flamboyant; when I started adding the more well-behaved alternates, I felt the whole family become more and more usable.
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Alright! After a few intense iterations with Hrant's consulting, the Armenian is finally in shape for shipping.
Phew!
I'm only waiting for the new Glyphs version with the kerning bug fix to come out now...
(BTW, the collision between լխ up there wouldn't occur naturally, since there's a contextual alternate for that. The screenshots were taken from within Glyphs without contextual alternates activated.)
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Quinoa is live on MyFonts! Discount forthcoming. Thanks for your help, everyone!
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/catharsis-fonts/quinoa/
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Discount is up, but the description text looks messed up in some browsers. Apparently the Wikipedia-style formating didn't survive the ingestion process. Correction's been made, but it takes hours for the servers to refresh. I'll wait until then to advertise on Twitter.
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Mad props (or whatever the kids say these days) for including all the non-Latins in the base price.4
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Feels wrong to punish users for their language...3
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Whoo-hoo! Quinoa made «Text Font of the Month» at MyFonts. (I rather think of it as a display typeface, but I'm not complaining!)
Thanks again to everyone who helped make this possible!
https://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/rs/20160810.html
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Congratulations, Christian. I think Quinoa would look very good as a text font, especially in a glossy magazine. It gives the text a very uncluttered look.
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Hmmm... revisiting Quinoa after a long rest, I find the lack of very dark weights rather noticeable. I feel tempted to add a Black master now... (Even though it means redrawing 4000 glyphs...!)
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How about this approach?
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The /e was too wide...
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The weight and width of /s and /c are a bit unbalanced. Make the /c a bit narrower?
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Good point, thanks! I originally made the /c so wide because it stuck out as narrow among the other letters, but I changed it back now and like it this way. I also made the /s wider.
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I like how the alternate /g forms turn out in the Black:
Also, for some reason I didn't have a spurless /r to go with the round style. Now I do.
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That /v/ might be a little light. And I wonder if your overshoot is a touch too much in this weight.1
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In general, or do you mean /r in particular? I can see that that does rise too high. I don't see it otherwise...
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Well the /r/ is what tipped me off but I think it might be a broader issue, looking at "Barleywine" for example.0
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As it happens, I had reduced the overshoots shortly after posting that «Barleywine» sample, based on some feedback from the typografie.info forum. Is it better in the current version?
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I'd rein it in still more.0
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Huh... It looks right to me that way.
BTW, is this new /ae (middle) better than the old one, even though there's no two-storey /a in the typeface?
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Overshoots look fine to me. I think the new ae is better, but I'm no expert. It's design could use some finetuning, though, as I'm sure you're aware. Its 'a' looks awkwardly back-slanted.0
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Yep! Better?
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That structure is better. The crossbar may stay straight a little too long in the "a" section in the two lighter weights, esp. in the regular.2
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Good point. Better?
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