Hi everyone! First of all I want to thank you because this forum has been really helpful for me to find a method to the critique of a typeface, and gave me the motivation needed to start design this font.
I'm a graphic designer/illustrator from Italy with a strong passion for typedesign. I work in branding field as a freelance
since 2014 and this is my first type project. For now named: P4.
I started design P4 thinking about a versatile neo-grotesque with a humanist influence, with a lowercase height very tall. Taking for reference Univers, Akzidenz, FF Strada and the works of Neubau Berlin.
I'm currently working at spacing and I don't started kerning yet.
During the process (three months) glyphs changed a lot from the primary pencil sketch that i probably lost the point, maybe
this crossover between style it just don't works or maybe I just should change drastically some letters to find a way to a more consistency look.
Despite I see a lot of mistake in proportions, weight and style I personally would not trash it completely.
I have a LOT of questions about it, but I would like to get a professional critique from you, that i'm sure it will be more helpful as always.
What's your thoughts?
Thank You
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The kink in the /y/ is catching my eye a bit, and the /Q/ obviously has shapes that need merging but otherwise it's an OK start.
If you like what you've designed and believe in it, tinker with it more. It's a decent enough base that could go in a number of directions. But as James says don't keep flogging it if it's a dead horse.
For a first project you have done well.
I admit i had to do research before answer you, because how you've noticed I simply didn't know the difference between tabular and proportional spacing in figures before your feedback!
It seems to me you suggest to adopte a tabular figures spacing in this specific case or am I wrong?
I know about don't start kerning before spacing work is satisfactory and I pefectly agree on text sizes looks a little tight. This probably fault of my indecision on define this font as a display or a text font, I really found this decision really hard to do.
I clearly don't ever start thinking and I didn't even ever tried to hint this project, i will probably think about it once kerning it'll be finished, cause for the moment hint is an "unexplored land" to me.
Thank you for you time!
Don't worry too much about hinting, if using FontLab Studio or Glyphs autohinting should be ok.