The Humpty A

Ray Larabie

All right! Stop whatcha doin', cause I'm about to ruin the image and the style that ya used to. In a display typeface, if my A is of the humpty variety, what should I do with my Alpha, Lambda and Delta? Can they be humpty too? Extra points for rhyming.

Ofir Shavit

I think they must stay somehow triangular to be understood as Lambda and Delta, maybe just round a bit the top corners, keep the bases angular with the slabs.

Nick Shinn

I would say no, based on Parachute’s Bague Round. Panos Vassiliou breaks a lot of the “proper” conventions in his designs, but not here.

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Ray it looks like you'll have to keep those in the... digital underground.  :-Þ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38Ec57yMG8

But I like Ofir's suggestion a lot.

Ori Ben-Dor

I spent a month in Greece last summer, and I did see rounded Lambdas here and there (at first I mistook them for Pis). I don't recall seeing rounded Deltas, though.

Chris Lozos

Rounded Lambdas look too much like Omegas.

Michael Jarboe

Lambda Lambda Lambda

Christian Thalmann

In mine own typeface, Quinoa Round,
I trod on this uncharted ground,
not knowing whether it would feed
a Greek typographer's fair need.
No actual use I have yet known,
though if some sample you should own,
I would be keen to be so told.
Your word shall be weighed up in gold.

Craig Eliason

I hope you don't feel your creativity is strangled
But my sense is those letters should be triangled.

Christian Thalmann

The t, as writ in lower case,
with quick an outstroke it doth chase
the letter that doth follow next.
I wonder who first drafted text
in which the t stands like a pole.
No doubt some nincompoopish troll
then called it travesty, or worse:
impossible to read in verse.
Yet nowadays with pride we count
Futura as a splendid fount
that child and sage alike can read
with comfort and unhampered speed.
If we applied this spirit bold,
a kindred story might be told
about our fetching domed designs
for these precise Hellenic signs.

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Ray it looks like you'll have to keep those in the... digital underground.  :-Þ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38Ec57yMG8

Apparently the video linked above is no longer procurable. Obviously this desecration of the record cannot be allowed to stand, not least as it renders the double-entendre unintelligible. Hence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrq0HjwJUM

As you were.