Hello guys!
I am a brand designer with an incredible admiration for typography so for a project I'm working on right now, for an Interior design studio, I decided to take a stab at my first typeface design. Last few months I've been on a quest to expand my skills and eye for typography from free sources online like this blog, which is by far the best one I've found so far.
The brand I'm working on is named Natural Instinct, so I wanted to make the N, R, A characters have a bit of personality.
When drawing I kept coming back to this N structure with the horizontals that form at top and bottom, from there, I played a bit more with M and W to make them a little wacky and then tried to make everything matched the best I could. The type is meant for posters, ads and special situations so I want it to be a little fun but in just the right amount. Just have this set so far but the idea is to make a full set of characters and glyphs this coming days.
Let me know what you think, any comments, questions or feedback would be greatly appreciated and taken into account.
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Let me know if you have any other piece of advise, it would be again, greatly appreciated. And thank you for your time and the willingness to share your knowledge. It's all really inspiring.
/J serif might as well extend to near about the terminal to close up that negative space. The terminal also has more room you could take up, vertically.
? (question mark) looks like it is about to fall to the right.
! (exclam) stem could be a couple units wider in the thickest part.
Z too wide? LSB might be a little too wide — check the space on the top horizontal between H’s and balance that.
While fixing the tapering on Y and X it was clear that a lot of the other letters where overdoing it as well, so things changed a bit, also did not find a good way to give Y a more squared juncture without making it to different from the rest. If any of you have any suggestions let me know.
With the lowercase I try to match the style the uppercase had set, the best I could. I want to ask you to take a look at the descender - ascender proportion and see if the difference in size is admissible.
Again all the help and feedback would be greatly appreciated.
cc @Christian Thalmann @ValKalinic @Craig Eliason
The /r doesn’t bother me because it is following the /a and /c. It could be slightly narrower and the arm could not drop quite as far, but it’s fine and legible as is.
/g /j and /y could use a tighter/faster transition into the terminal similar the /f.
Most of the diagonal-based characters could use some more finessing — the juncture solutions don’t seem quite consistent.
Keep going — good job!
Regarding the junction of /y: I'd suggest opting for a junction similar to /v and /w, resulting in a step/corner/whatever (not sure how to phrase it).
Otherwise, really digging the overall look and feel!