Hi All, I've been working on a typeface, on and off, for an inordinate amount of time.
I think I've finally cracked the overall pattern and it's exceptions in the design to get it working the way I want.
The lowercase is soft and rounded but, for my own personal taste, I wanted the caps to conform to a more rigid, straight structure.
The two cases work well together, but it's got me thinking about precedent. Can any one think of other well-known typefaces that have such differences before upper and lowercase?
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Hi Jamie,
I understand your work is far from finished. I personnaly find that the uppercase and lowercase letters work well together, with the notable exception of the /N/ and /n/. But, of course, we should have an idea of the whole alphabet.
Looking at your example, I don't see clearly the "more rigid, straight structure".
I think it's that I want them to form a sharper, more formal counterpart to the lowercase, and really define the baseline and capheight.
I'm sure there must be other fonts that have this distinction I just can't recall
But can you think it any that show a variation in style. I have a vague recollection that there are historical types where this has been more the norm.
Delphin jumps to my mind as a modern design that adopts that pairing.
Take the string after “issue/”, replace “page/” with “p”, replace slashes with underscores, drop “edition/null/” if present:
For many centuries, the upper and lower case Latin C/c of the common serifed text types were given a different treatment, but not S/s. Jakob Erbar’s Candida (1937) broke with that convention, with its /c serif following /C, as did Hermann Zapf’s Palatino (1949), a thoroughly humanist conception, with its great rigor as a “pen written” style.
Thanks @Dan Reynolds, that's quite the website over at Klingspor.