Contextual alternates in latin sans-serif

Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
in Type Design Critiques
After three days of prototyping a simple, geometric font (primarily for contextual alternates), I realized that I had almost got Futura :neutral:  I came up with a humorous comment and realized that Frederic Goudy even commented on it a long time ago :smiley: a strange era for us...



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  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,216
    What is your opinion about removing the left hand side of the Lslash diacritic?
    (Not really related to your post, just a Polish display-type question.)
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    Nick Shinn said:
    What is your opinion about removing the left hand side of the Lslash diacritic?
    something like this looks a bit unusual to me, but it would fit exceptionally well in this typeface (as contextual alternate of course)


  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,216
    I suspect the typography of this old album cover was rub-down (Letraset/Mecanorma), with the accented characters not provided on the transfer sheets, but produced by “stealing” accents from, for instance é.
    I do think you could take some liberties with your accented characters, in keeping with the “crowded” principle of the typeface design.

  • Florian Hardwig
    Florian Hardwig Posts: 273
    For more visual examples of one-sided strokes on Ł, see this Flickr thread, including signs, commemorative plaques, shop fronts, handwritten price tags. I wondered whether it’s acceptable for native readers. Mariusz commented:
    Hey, I’m Polish, it’s totally fine, and not weird to us, it’s just more common for older signs (I'd say pre 1980) - I wouldn’t expect it on anything new.
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    I think, a certain liberty in the treatment of accents (and Lslashes&ogoneks) has a long tradition in Poland. My favorite Lslash on 50 złotych banknote:

  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    the project will end up as a base for a color font, and since it's already December 15th... :)
  • Typofactory
    Typofactory Posts: 56
    What font is the 2024?
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    Typofactory said:
    What font is the 2024?
    It's my numbers only V-font Fog2

  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    damn, I just realized that my font in Red evokes certain associations (mainly because of the "N" logo)


  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 1,988
    Your N is folded differently, so no problem.
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    Christian Thalmann said:
    Your N is folded differently, so no problem.

    I think the same, but the first comment I got was "You used Net**ix font in this picture" :o
  • Simon Cozens
    Simon Cozens Posts: 752
    Hah, maybe I don't watch too much TV but my first thought was Sophia Tai's Foldit!
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    edited December 2023
    Simon Cozens said:
    [...] my first thought was Sophia Tai's Foldit!
    Hmm, most likely because you were dev-support in Foldit project :)


  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    my little, fun analysis for one glyph and its potential contextual alternatives made while working on this font :| 
  • John Butler
    John Butler Posts: 297
    Very Monte Cazazza!
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    edited January 27
    John Butler said:
    Very Monte Cazazza!
    :)

  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,216
    You should add a variable axis, in which the part snipped off travels for A to Z and back again. ;-)
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    Nick Shinn said:
    You should add a variable axis, in which the part snipped off travels for A to Z and back again. ;-)
    I suspect a bit of irony, but it could be an interesting idea :D


  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,216
    I’m post-ironic. One never knows whether one’s silly ideas will amount to anything, or where they will lead, until one tries them out. Thank you for “taking the ball and running with it”!
  • Grzegorz Luk (gluk)
    Grzegorz Luk (gluk) Posts: 161
    edited August 19
    My little analisys has grown :) Bigger version ON_LINE HERE

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