design a typeface 2009
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- albums0
Not saying that this would be the direction or even my submission, just an example but if we all submitted our names or a word to display mockups of letters then we could choose one and work toward that. each person could take a letter but refinements and changes would be made along the way to encourage best usage. As a goal, it should be something that is offered at fontsquirrel as a free webfont, that'd be neat.
- i_monk0
Black book thread?
But yes, let's do this. Again. For real this time.
- MrT0
Let's do it 2012.
albums - I like the idea of a bit more focus/direction, but seeing the variety last time was arguably as interesting as having a usable font at the end, don't you think?
- i_monk0
Everyone doing an individual letter won't work if the goal is to have cohesion. Pick a style (geometric would probably be best) and baseline grid, then everyone does a 5-6 letter word and we pick the glyphs we like best, eliminate or merge the duplicates, refine details, add ligatures (why stop at webfont?), etc.
- chris_himself_20
Sounds good, sort the details and let's go
- hansglib0
the original font can be found here:
- maikel0
+1!
it looks like every now and again there is something design-related in the qoob : )
- set0