This is a mostly useless font, created for fun. It's approximately a take on Fraktur, but quite a few solutions required divergent designs.
This is not designed for legibility, it's designed for aesthetics, with a OH no Type Co. disregard for re-usability.
A few designs in this currently bug me, and I'd like a second pair of eyes to second-guess all the (relatively) strange decisions here.
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The tittles and the /O are particularly hard to parse.
The O is difficult as it tends to look like a D. I would try to smooth the top left corner.
The U in Fraktur is the a rather simple shape. Why do you pick this one that very close to the A and V?
This one has some shapes that might fit your style (e.g. O, Y): http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-26254.html
This is an interesting exercise, but I think you have put yourself at a disadvantage by using such a heavy line, which forces some letterforms into awkward proportions. If you begin with a very thin line, it will be easier to separate the essential shapes and components from the non-essential. You might also realize that you need at least some smooth curves.
Of course blackletter caps are at the dark end of the legibility scale, especially to those not familiar with reading them in U&lc text. So please, redeem yourself by developing a lower case!
BTW, if you’re not familiar with Judith Schalansky’s Fraktur Mon Amour, it will help.
- Replace the disembodied top left stroke of /N/M/ with something akin to the right angle in /V/W/.
- Choose a more closed and rounder shape for /O/.
- The bottom left thorn of /V/W/ strikes me as weird; perhaps lead the stroke from the right through the bottom to the right in a bowl and detach the left stem from it?
- Break the /R/ as you did the /K/.
On the other hand, /G/ and /T/ might almost be a bit too legible for their own good. You could try to bulge the crossbar of /G/ a bit upwards to make it look more blackletter and less antiqua, and maybe use the kind of /T/ that incorporates an arc on the left and bottom sides.If you want it to be read, it definitely needs work, if not you can just work on it until you’re satisfied and attain something that you consider accomplished.
But it required doing that to read the first word. And even then, it was pretty difficult.
Develop this with the spirit of display, for textures, kinda like Nostra Stream https://www.futurefonts.xyz/lucas-descroix/nostra
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