Experimental symmetrical typeface

Adam Jagosz · June 2016

I took the challenge of desigining a naturally flowing, legible font where all or nearly all glyphs are horizontally symmetrical, as I thought Google query for "symmetrical font" returned unsatisfactory results. Its application could include vertical texts written on a glass pane or neon signs (a kind of totems) or maybe necklace pendants with names. Anyway, however impractical and useless the font is, it was fun making it.

Craig Eliason · June 2016

Why the unconventional bar of /A/?

PabloImpallari · June 2016

Quite difficult to read, but I completely love it!

Nick Shinn · June 2016

That name is taken.
http://namecheck.fontdata.com/?q=artefact

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian · June 2016

Worth pondering.
And effortless ambigrams of palindromes! :-)

BTW just in time for: http://prototype.typegallery.com/

Adam Jagosz · June 2016

Craig Eliason said:

Why the unconventional bar of /A/?

That's a good question

Possibly a remnant of my previous trial at this task where I wanted the /A to mimic the design of /S. It also takes after Corcaigh Gaelic type, as does lowercase /g. /B is also inspired by insular capitals. I know it all probably isn't working towards legibility...

I also had an angular version of that:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5019405/uploads/editor/03/dq8y415fpccd.jpg

Thanks Pablo!
Nick, thank you for letting me know. I have a few other names in handy, I'll just go back and reconsider them.

Experimental symmetrical typeface

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