Munson, a Victorian style slab serif
Comments
-
Samuil Simonov said:I honestly prefer the double-c italic ж. The roman Жж have legs that look off, the arms are under elastic deformation, but the legs have suffered plastic deformation, the spring has gone out of them.
Гг look top-heavy to me.
What is it about the arms and legs that is wrong ?
Consider the following image :-
The first letter in the first row is the Latin K which I'm told is completely unsuitable for a Ka (although some fonts do just that), the second letter of the first row is the Ka as I have drawn it in Munson, the arm has an elegant s shaped curve and the leg comes from the stem horizontally and transitions to a straight slope of about 60° down to the foot.
Would it be better to have both the arm and the leg straight as in the third character of the first row ? If so then why ?
Or would it be better to have both the arm and the leg curved as in the first character of the second row ?
The middle character of the second row was just an experiment to see what it would look like with a bit of a curl on the end.
The third character of the second row is the Ka as it is drawn in Munson but with less of a transition between the horizontal and the straight sloped section.
Which Ka is most Cyrillic in nature ?
What is it that distinguishes a Ka from a K ?
0 -
The top right К is cool, but probably won't work in a serious-looking font.
I like the transition on the bottom left and bottom middle К more than on the current one. It's more gentle and elastic.
I also like the curl much more than the flat foot on the left, but a curl like this will beg for a swallow-tailed ф. Since you already have a curl on я, why not try how it looks?
0 -
Thank you.
I will work on something now I know what is required.
Munson isn't that serious a font, there are several easter eggs in there for those who want to look for them.
0 -
I have, made the changes, this is the latest iteration, the 'Ka' and the 'Zhe' now have curly lower legs. I have also made a few other minor changes.
Any suggestions for improvement would be very welcome.
0 -
Lowercase dje/tshe gets clogged—I’d consider a narrower bar.0
-
To me the Ж is best when it's not a combination of other things, especially not two of the same thing.0
-
Craig Eliason said:Lowercase dje/tshe gets clogged—I’d consider a narrower bar.
I have revised these characters and narrowed the bar, any good ?
The dje character was originally copied from my other font (Kelvinch) and modified to fit but I then realised that it had a tapering tail and that didn't fit with the aesthetic of the new font so in the later versions I gave it a ball terminal.
Is there any reason why it should not have a ball terminal ?
0 -
Hrant H. Papazian said:To me the Ж is best when it's not a combination of other things, especially not two of the same thing.
Do you have any suggestions for how I might improve on this character ?
0 -
The back-curling in the descender of the dje can work –and be very helpful– in a "j" but here it seems superfluous, and combined with the curving top just makes the right side look wobbly.Paul Miller said:
most fonts that I have looked at make the Ж character out of two mirrored K characters. Is this not a good strategy ?0 -
Hrant H. Papazian said:The back-curling in the descender of the dje can work –and be very helpful– in a "j" but here it seems superfluous, and combined with the curving top just makes the right side look wobbly.Paul Miller said:
most fonts that I have looked at make the Ж character out of two mirrored K characters. Is this not a good strategy ?
What do you think?
As for the Ж, I think I will go with the mainstream.
0 -
I like that dje.0
-
The Munson font has just been updated to version 2 with Cyrillic and Greek and a whole lot more open type features. It has taken a long time but I was busy with other things.
1
Categories
- All Categories
- 43 Introductions
- 3.7K Typeface Design
- 803 Font Technology
- 1K Technique and Theory
- 622 Type Business
- 444 Type Design Critiques
- 542 Type Design Software
- 30 Punchcutting
- 136 Lettering and Calligraphy
- 83 Technique and Theory
- 53 Lettering Critiques
- 485 Typography
- 303 History of Typography
- 114 Education
- 68 Resources
- 499 Announcements
- 80 Events
- 105 Job Postings
- 148 Type Releases
- 165 Miscellaneous News
- 270 About TypeDrawers
- 53 TypeDrawers Announcements
- 116 Suggestions and Bug Reports