Hey folks,
I just registered to the message board,
I am selftaught and have been designing type for about 5 years, recently started a new project "lineal"
obviously nothing shockingly new here,
but i do like exploring the familiar and see what can be changed,
what are the things i dislike in previous/existing designs, what are the problems and how are they solved.
i would like to get some feedback on what i have here so far.
i have 3 masters at this point, i began with the "regular" did a quick light version, and then did a extrapolation to get a bold that i adjusted just a little so far. so the bold shows more flaws than the other weights. i find that the thinner lineweights often hide errors in lineweight consistancies, obviously the extrapolation brings out that messiness…
as far as origin goes, i suppose we are looking at helvetica, akzidenz grotesque, san francisco and the likes.
i have designed several sans serifs before but avoided this particular design space so far.
you can argue its originality. but im curious what my interpretation turns out to be.
Comments
so thats where that comes from (t & f, etc)
the g doesnt have special treatment at this point.
The bowls of 6 and 9 appear larger in the light than they do in the bold.
The difference between the size of the upper bowl and the lower bowl of 8 looks larger in the bold than in the regular.
The 5 (especially the top), looks narrower in the bold than in the regular.
The 1 looks wider in the bold than in the regular. I know it's not, but it looks this way because a bold has inherently less whitespace between glyphs, making the whitespace let of 1 stand out more.
The top of 3, or maybe the entire three in the light could be wider.
The 4 looks wider in the light than in the bold.
The way the strokes in 6 and 9 are 'cut off' in the bold looks a bit uneasy compared to the light.
I think the overall proportions are really good in the regular, but a little off in the light and the bold, in opposite ways.
Good luck!
This will make things easier down the road.