Hi everybody,
this is a small project I did in my spare time from yesterday till now. If you see flaws with the design, please be sure to let me know. Don't be put off by the sort-of finished presentation - I have retained the editable versions, so no problem making changes.
Comments
-- The G, L, and maybe X, feel a bit smaller than the other letters
-- J feels a bit plain compared to the exuberant treatment of the rest of the alphabet
-- U may be closing up too much, and mistaken for an O
http://www.typophile.com/node/5106
Curl in V, W and X is the same on purpose so the set also looks stylistically the same. Had it not been so, everybody would complain about them not being the same.
J, S - agree, it can be worked on.
Hrant, obviously such letters are not used in all caps strings. The lc will be just the lines, without needles, buttons etc. When and if I have the time to make it.
I am showing the thinking process behind a font I am designing, so we can all arrive at the best design solution, not for opportunistic reasons. A case can be made, for example, that the strings can never have the same loop when made out of real needles and strings, but that in turn would mean this rule must apply to the whole font. Which leads to other problems of consistency. Agree?
The curl in V, W and X can look stylistically the same without actually being the same. This has a got a kind of handmade feel that really gets lost in repetition.
Try writing some words that one might see in Headings, and see if it works well in All Caps.
Jasper yes
Bhikkhu I am torn between sc and lc. lc would probably be something like "my" Bronn script
Theunis working on it
For the /L perhaps a needle for the stem, the top loop coming out of it with one part of the thread coming down to form the bottom?
1st word reads Yoce.
The separated link-loop at w is illogical.
d reads cl.
Still issues with inner spacing of parts: g, h, p …