Help for Greek letters

Tural Alisoy
Tural Alisoy Posts: 76
edited June 2025 in Type Design Critiques
Hi. I am working on my new font. I create them inspired by Didone and Bodoni styles.I also add Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic letters to the font. I am trying to choose the correct style along with my own versions. The help I want from you right now is about the Greek alphabet. What you see on the screen are the letters Delta, Xi, Sigma, Upsilon, Psi. What do you think, which default should go into which Stylistic Set, or should I stick with one version at all? 
I will also ask for your help with other letters under this post.




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  • Tural Alisoy
    Tural Alisoy Posts: 76
    Latin alphabet

  • Tural Alisoy
    Tural Alisoy Posts: 76
    I have created few of the letters inspired by the screenshot which was shared in this comment
  • John Savard
    John Savard Posts: 1,216
    The example Greek letters you showed reminded me of a typeface I had seen... which does not at all resemble your Latin alphabet for the Turkish character set. I would definitely recommend the first upsilon over the second one, but I would need to think more to comment on the earlier ones.
  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,114
    second Delta
    second Xi
    second Psi
    first Sigma
    neither Upsilon
  • Tural Alisoy
    Tural Alisoy Posts: 76
    Thanks, @Thomas Phinney I made Upsilon as you can see now

  • K Pease
    K Pease Posts: 182
    I think, rather than trying to build from E, all three strokes of Xi may be better as straight didone turned sideways, i.e., no bracketing into the serifs.
  • Helmut Wollmersdorfer
    Helmut Wollmersdorfer Posts: 212
    Just a note on the Latin characters:

    For my taste the gaps between the base glyphs and the accents are too narrow in the capitals, e.g. Latin capital letter I with dot. 
  • Tural Alisoy
    Tural Alisoy Posts: 76
    Thanks, @Helmut Wollmersdorfer

    Done

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