Typophile Alternatives
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- 5timuli
Anyone know any alternative sites for type design critique other than Typophile? Typophile is a great site but takes days or weeks to get responses on there.
- 5timuli0
BTW I Googled but came up blank.
- _salisae_0
I would like to see it :)
- 5timuli0
I've only got a few lowercase characters from the thin weight done and a few rough early sketches. I'm planning on five weights with italics. I'm concentrating on drawing the full thin and black weights first.
I suppose here's as good a place as any for a crit... I wonder how many type designers (if any) are active on QBN...
- lovable! i'm cuddling with those g's tonight._salisae_
- I love the top one!
zod - top one is my favorite as well. that G is off the hook.subimage
- I agree, the top one. G is kiler!
Andy_ssw - top one is nice. I like the weird "t" as well in the bottom one. I like thin fonts.Jaline
- That top g is very textaxis-y, but in a good way...TheBlueOne
- Top "a" and "g," bottom "t" and you've got a winner.AndyRoss
- _salisae_0
i pointed a type designer friend of mine to your thread. hope your find your answers soon.
- a_iver0
i like the top one too. it's cleaner. the other one looks too warm and seems like it's trying too hard to be cool... if that makes any sense.. especially the 'a', 'f', and 't'. maybe 'e' too? i can't tell if they are different, but they seem different. Both are really good though. I especially like the ear of the 'g'
- warm isn't the right word.. maybe hazy or goofy? i'm probably not being helpful at alla_iver
- ismith0
I want to see it in a heavier weight. I like it so far, especially the g, f, and t.
- jysta0
Looks really nice! Do both, if I had to choose I would go with you on this 5timuli (bottom one), esp when it comes to heavier weights. I like the slanting effect that gives it extra flow.
- Jaline0
Hmm...I vote you do both as well.
- 5timuli0
Thanks for the feedback. The Typophile consensus is that I should abandon the slanting 't' and 'f' and maybe drop it from all the uppercase except maybe the 'A'. I'm a bit reluctant though as I don't want ti to turn into 'just another typeface'.
If I had the motivation I'd do both but that's a lot of work. Five weights and italics of the new one is enough for now.
There's also this one, the oldest version...
...but I abandoned that in favour of doing something a little more versatile.
- Wait, I'm getting confused. Never mind. Both is easy, there will only be a few different characters.5timuli
- Randd0
nice work! I believe in you
- horton0
excellent work.. maybe try to get yourself noticed by authors on TypeNeu?
- "Dsnrk : Say if I had a font sample to show off, how would I go about it?"horton
- "TypeNeu : Dsnrk: mail them to type at typeneu.com and if we love it, we publish it.... "
horton - Great site!5timuli
- akrokdesign0
nice one, good work.
- Jaline0
Or give me and image of the sample you want posted, and I will post it, but it's helpful if you have a link to your portfolio or some place where more samples of the font are located (or more of your text work can be found). They're kind of picky about some things...