on horizontal weight growth

jakob_runge

Hej everybody,

Somewhere — guess it was a Frutiger book — I came across the method of:
While gaining weight, the distance from inner counter to outer stem in remaining constant. (visualisation in image below)



But I have no clue where I came across that method …
Can you help my memory?

James Puckett

Maybe in The Modification of Letterforms by Hess? I don’t have time to look it up right now, but it might be in there.

Austin Stahl

Univers works this way — there's an illustration of it in the Frutiger Complete Works.

Thomas Phinney

@James Puckett: Nope, not Hess.

jakob_runge

@Austin Stahl nailed it: Adrian Frutiger‘s "Typefaces: The Complete Works" on page 93 was what I had in mind.
( https://books.google.de/books?id=sB1WWNLIqRMC&lpg=PP1&hl=de&pg=PA93 )

Chris Lozos

Understand that just because it works for Univers, does not mean it is an absolute for whatever you may be using it for.

jakob_runge

@Chris Lozos of course it is not. But that method  works quite well for a specific typeface of mine.

Some preview above and on dribble. https://dribbble.com/jakob_runge/buckets/391103-Harrison-Serif

Austin Stahl

Chris Lozos said:

Understand that just because it works for Univers, does not mean it is an absolute for whatever you may be using it for.

Also, even in Univers itself, it's not precise! Still adjusted a bit by eye.