Hello everyone,
My name is Dennys Hess. I'm a swiss digital interface designer currently based in Hong Kong. My job is it to create nice websites, apps etc. and I have a huge passion for typography. However, until now I was just using fonts to add personality, brand etc to my projects and always appreciated the craft behind it.
I strongly believe that if you want to understand something you have to create it. This is why I want to make my own font and hopefully struggle as much as I can to see what makes great fonts great (not just in theory) and hope this insight will help me to pick fonts in a more accurate way and understand the nature of the design choices made by the type designer.
In no means I'm a type designer, I'm a designer trying to make a font, used in large sizes. This is an initial draft and I would love to get some insights from designers with loads of experience in this field.
Looking very much forward to some insights from you.
Thank you very much!
Dennys
Comments
Modulation also needs more consistency. Your diagonal letters won't fit in if they lack the thins that all the other letters have.
In either case you do have a lot of work to do, but first get your heart straight before it's too late.
Dieu vomit les tièdes.
For example that unconventional "w" above holds promise. In contrast, I'm with G. W. Ovink: "Bodoni is an admirable letter for a death notice."
Currently, I'm working on getting a better modulation into it and try to remove the very major mistakes which have been pointed out already. Hopefully I can give an update here and someone has a little bit of spare time to point me further into a better direction.
By no means I think I'm anywhere close so I guess I'll just keep trying and hoping that I can improve.
Sure. But I doubt that's why mainstreamers reject it.
Sometimes a single glyph can expose a good path.
See also:
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/2026/type-idea-sketches
And I would suggest squaring up the 'o' a little bit.
That's a good input. I actually worked on some versions for the a and had this type of treatment before. Never really got it to work. I might take the s closer to the a/e/c now instead.
The idea: