serif to san-serif ligatures
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- svenreed
any good examples of serif to san-serif, vice versa ligatures out there?
- janne760
wtf
- janne760
i want a cucumber that tastes like banana, any examples?
- svenreed0
what am i asking for the fucking impossible here?
- e-pill0
here you use a gun and aim at your screen and shoot em off them serifs!! make it san-serif!! like this!!!
- svenreed0
you unimaginative fucks.
- svenreed0
in all seriousness has this never been attempted? i mean come on...this isn't all that far fetched if the typefaces relate nicely. or am i just way too high right now.
- airey0
what the fuck are you actually asking? if english is your primary language your communication skills are somewhere above the toothless hobo 4 bottles of night train into the evening. seriously man, ask a question that makes sense and you might get answers that do so.
- MrT0
OK maybe the original question was a little awkwardly worded, but a ligature between serif and sans characters is not exactly so hard to imagine is it? I don't know of any but I'm interested...
FFS if the new Pizza Hut logo can be signed off then such a ligature would be a work of genius.
- neverblink0
wait what? Sans serif with ligatures like a serif?
- svenreed0
@airey sorry i hadn't realized my original question was so awkwardly worded. i guess i could ask you for good examples of serif - serif ligatures. but thats a little too obvious and unoriginal. sorry you soo offended. apparently the constraints of what's considered "design" have a tight grip on you and your version of civilian english. id love to see you speak like this to a fellow colleague in person and thanks for a good read.
- kelpie0
surely if you want to run a ligature from a sans serif character into a serif character (if I've understood you), you'd need to do that yourself, as the ligature glyph wont span 2 version of one typeface. Maybe find a big open type family with a sans, a serif and ligature sets for both and get the glyphs into illy to mod blend the 2 together?
should be 'reasonably ' simple, I would have thought
- 7point340
thesis, might work since it's a large coherent family
the sans or the mix + the serif, but you're going to have to do it yourself.
aside from the ligature, why would you need to put a serif next to a sans anyway?
- gramme0
Yeah I'm not sure I understand the question either. It would help if you told us what the application is—logo? headline? etc.
If you want to butt letters together, one being a sans and the other being a serif, then the best ligature will come from a family of types like 7.34 mentions, such as Thesis, Meta, or Freight.
- At any rate, if it's a logo you should customize the ligature to your liking.gramme
