Font critique
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- neue75_bold0
nice start!
but needs a lot of work, primarily the 'B, E, G, J, K, P, Q,R, S, W, Y'
what I wonder though is that other than for the sake of going through this exercise, why bother? seeing as there are many faces that have a similar feeling, that is unless you leave it's imperfections, but I reckon that's not your intent...
anyways, I applaud your effort!
- I see it being used when you want to use engravers or sackers, but with slightly less funkDr_Rand
- but what the fuck do I know?Dr_Rand
- you know lots and you're right, many times have I sought out such a typeface meeting those needs..neue75_bold
- yr twistin my melon, manDr_Rand
- You don´t like the P & R :( I love themmoamoa
- basically they're fine, just unstable...neue75_bold
- ukit0
I like it a lot moamoa...very impressive.
It seems like a face like this deserves a lowercase, but the amount of work that goes into it would be huge I'm sure.
- moamoa0
1. I wanna use it for my beauty & fashion clients.
thanks bold.. I know there is still a lot of work.. you work for many hours and then you always see something new that you don´t like anymore...
I have a font in my head which doesn´t exsist.. so I started to do it..
example Gotham, there are so many letters that I "hate" hate is maybe the wrong word.. but I think they don´t fit to fashion, thats the reason why TOM Ford has their own interpretation of Gotham, with the longer middleline from "M" (just an example)engravers is the only opportunity which.. but everybody is using it, and there are also letter I really don´t like...
so propblems is... there is not one wide roundish fashionable font out there...
just chanel has their own font.. which I really like.. but this font is just for internal use.. it was designed by a french typedesigner..
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- jaylarson0
just keep at it. hammer it out. will you share when you're done? ;P
- Jnr_Madison0
- hahahha.. I am sure this took you more then 10 minutes :)moamoa
- Z's too high, S is too big, O as well, and the C. Lots of work ahead, mate!fwafwafwa
- it's good to make sentences because then you will discover the real flaws..fwafwafwa
- he cuted the letters from my example and thats the reason for this look :)moamoa
- gramme0
I'd make your crossbars a bit thinner. I would get rid of the tail on the G, it's a level of detail that doesn't exist on other letters. It looks OK large, but small it clogs a bit.
The leg of the J looks flat. I'd tighten the curve – not too much, I know it needs to still look like an extended letter.
The tail of the S needs a bit more upward spring in it. It's a bit soft right now.
Letters like B, P and R need a bit more contrast for optical evenness: I'd make the horizontals thinner.
Did you try flattening the tail of the Q so the bottom of it sits on the baseline? I'm thinking the shape would look a bit like the end of the leg in your R.
Besides that: great work, would love to take it for a spin one day ;)
- gramme0
BTW I'm on the hunt for something much like this...doing a logotype for a French restaurant. Have done some options w/ Gotham, but like you have been wishing for something between Gotham and Engravers.
- detritus0
I was about to make one of my hilarious patent-technique quips and say something along the lines of "I've just noticed that your O fucking sucks", and then we'd all laugh and you'd write about me in your diaries tonight (and, in later years, fondly recount the episode in your memoirs) when I saw that the O in Jnr_'s highly witty assembling is actually a little, as we say in England, 'Skew Whiff'.
I don't know where I'm going with this, but I've certainly missed.
Oh yes, that first paragraph was all one sentence - humour knows no grammatical bounds. So fuck you, Kuz.
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*wipes away tear*
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAdetritus - hahaahhahmoamoa
- STUPID COMMENT NOT FUNNYdrgs_not_hugs
- I think I kind've made that evident, my smock-wearing white supremacist friend.detritus
- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
- Jnr_Madison0
Please note I accept no liability for the kerning on my above sample image. drgs gave me 8/10 but I think he just fancies me.
- gramme0
Also, F needs a bit more meat on it's bones. Either that, or Jnr_'s kerning is shite.
- SigDesign0
I like it...classy.
I think the curves in the S are not quite finished...it doesn't appear as well-resolved, or as solid as the C and G and R, etc... when I first looked at it, it seemed like the problem was in the top curve on the bottom half of the S.
- jimzyk0
i like it, you know your shit - go with it man, its all good to me.
have some faith in yourself & put it out there, i really like it.kind of reminds me of avenir... which i good
- dearhead0
J seems to wide.
- pressplay0
Hard to judge from the scree and by the given examples, but to me the O seems a little too small (check the relation of the O and the N in the word „BOND“).
- pressplay0
For everyone interested in font design, I highly recommend „Anatomie der Buchstaben“ (don‘t know the english title) by Karen Cheng. The best and most comprehensive book about this topic I ever got my hands on.
http://www.typografie.de/Unsere-…
- 5timuli0
- It's a bit crudely done ('new') but I think it's easy to follow.5timuli
- I forgot to say... I really only fixed widths here, and other optical errors. Modified the G, Q a bit.5timuli
- The weights look off cause all I did was squash/stretch some parts.5timuli
- nice work J.Jnr_Madison
- schweet!Dr_Rand
- NONEIS0
5timuli, with your changes, this font has now become the lost twin of Sackers Gothic ;D
- JLRSN0
i am working on a project and this font would be perfect.
i can haz apostrophe?
- moamoa0
:) I will work now with 5timuli on this font.... I think it will need more time then expected to finish it... but I am sure the result will be much better instead of finishing it just by myself.
apostophe . I think so, yes.