design a typeface 2009
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- jimbojones0
Can't help but reply to this, set: "on its own this kinda works although unoriginal, but as part of a typeface it fails miserably mate!"
Basically it should only work on its own, it wasn't the inention to make a usable typeface after all. So the decision to make a glyph traditional or totally experimental is not important at all here.
Doing something truly original in typedesign is wishful thinking. Neue's trick has been used for a commercial typeface, if that's where you're coming from, but I guess he didn't know.
The whole typeface fails miserably at being a typeface, I mean what did you expect if everyone does one single character without any general guidelines? That being said, since the design very close to Neue's has been successfully used as a typeface, I don't know why it couldn't.