Film title inspired font

Nick Cooke
Nick Cooke Posts: 207
in Type Design Critiques
Here’s something I have been working on for a while, it started out as a (fairly) faithful rendition of the film titles but I found it to be too crude to work as a font. So this is my third rework that I am finally happy with, although it has veered off a fair bit from the original but I think it looks much better. 

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  • Yves Michel
    Yves Michel Posts: 209
    Hello Nick,
    Nice work! Out of curiosity: why no bindings with the capitals ? With calt maybe?
  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,295
    The Italian Job?
  • Nick Cooke
    Nick Cooke Posts: 207
    Nick Shinn said:
    The Italian Job?
    That's why the font is called Dorzoff.  ;)
  • Nick Cooke
    Nick Cooke Posts: 207
    Yves Michel said:
    Hello Nick,
    Nice work! Out of curiosity: why no bindings with the capitals ? With calt maybe?
    I don't think they need to be joined, besides they wouldn't work if set in all caps.
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,479
    Connections coming out of /b and /o might be too thick.
  • Linus Romer
    Linus Romer Posts: 208
    I like the way the font comes across! I also think the level of legibility is in general appropriate for a title font. However, at first glance, I thought the /I were an /O (probably because of the rounding at the top right).
  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,295
    (probably because of the rounding at the top right).

    And not knowing the actress?
  • Linus Romer
    Linus Romer Posts: 208
    Nick Shinn said:
    (probably because of the rounding at the top right).

    And not knowing the actress?
    Probably not as well as you do. But her name is the only reason I can be sure that it is an /I and not an /O. Maybe a sample of "If" could be a test if it is read as "Of".

  • Nick Cooke
    Nick Cooke Posts: 207
    Here:
  • Linus Romer
    Linus Romer Posts: 208
    edited September 13
    With an /O as a comparison, the /I is of course immediately recognizable as such. But if I were to read “If” on its own, I wouldn't be sure whether it was ‘If’ or “Of.” Personally, for better recognizability, I would enlarge the superness in the upper right corner and make the tail at the bottom less expansive to the left, something like this:

  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,082
    I agree that the recognizability of the cap “I” is a problem, though if one thinks of this as a display face for limited/particular uses, I am not sure it is a major problem.

    There is plenty of contrast and not-strictly-brush-angle stroke thickness variation in the lowercase. So to me, it seems like there might be an option to deemphasize the decorative swash endings on the cap I by just having them thin as they progress. (And perhaps pull in the lower swash even more than Linus does.)
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,760
    Yeah, I think you could afford to make the /I much squarer, like the one in the film title that inspired this.
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,049
    Nice! Somehow the pairs of identical ells throw me off a bit; maybe have a ligature or contextual alternate to make the first in a pair a bit smaller?
  • Nick Cooke
    Nick Cooke Posts: 207
    Linus Romer said:
    With an /O as a comparison, the /I is of course immediately recognizable as such. But if I were to read “If” on its own, I wouldn't be sure whether it was ‘If’ or “Of.” Personally, for better recognizability, I would enlarge the superness in the upper right corner and make the tail at the bottom less expansive to the left, something like this:

    I don't like the shape of that I: it looks unbalanced. The film isn't The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But I have altered it a fair bit. There are also alternate final glyphs.

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