Glad you like it. I'm going to finish it and then invite anyone who feels so inclined to suggest fixes. I've made so many arbitrary decisions that some of the glyphs are suffering an identity crisis.
It may not be fixable, of course, but it will be fun finding out.
It’s somehow this amazing gothic (as in sans) metal graffiti script. No staid corners on this one. Completely linear and yet dancing with life. All that astonishing beauty in even the harmony of the imperfections, all these dynamic overshoots, willfully irregular strokes, classy decenders (wow on the success of both esses)! How do you do it, intaglio?!
And then you based this almost exclusively on an asymmetrical pentagon! This has the makings of a true classic, intaglio. meek is so right about this one being special.
Now the question is di I stick with the eccentricities or calm it down somewhat? The caps, particularly, show an uneasy mix-and-non-match (B,D,P,R). At the moment it looks as if the ghost of some random caligrapher got in there. I think I will probably have to make those joins more in keeping with the rest of it. Then there's the Q. Any suggestions?
I'll sleep on it. Tomorrow the obvious outsiders will be staring me in the face.
Haha, I wasn’t taking the calligraphy element as random at all, just winsomely modern! Some of the most astonishing innovations in hand lettering seem to emerge fully formed from the crucible of pure typographic naivité. I mean, what beautiful babies come from these non-matches.
Not to say your are at all typographically naive, quite the opposite. Yet you have given yourself rules that compel you to do “the wrong thing”. Keep doing it then, it’s working!
And that Q is totally bad ASS! I suggest you don’t change a brick of it.
Really hard for me to say what to change when I personally love all the inconsistencies. You may need a more objective analysis, but such an analysis is antithetical to the spirit of this font. I would say: all the most amazing fontstructions take flight with their flaws, and this one among them!
Heh heh! The rest of the numerals are going to be a bit of a brain-teaser.
@will.i.ૐ: I think you're probably right, rationalising it would wreck it. Besides, where to start?!
I don't mind being naive, by the way. I haven't had any training in typography. I'll always be grateful that one of my first bosses in the industry alerted me to the world of typography. That would be 1971. Phew.
@intaglio: Dear maestro, you know it. Create a glyph is to solve a labyrinth. Create a font is like solve 300 labyrinths all togethers in a row. If we love Typography, we can try solve the more of these labyrints. The Future is here round us each second! You do it!
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10/10, even in advance of caps!
It may not be fixable, of course, but it will be fun finding out.
And then you based this almost exclusively on an asymmetrical pentagon! This has the makings of a true classic, intaglio. meek is so right about this one being special.
I'll sleep on it. Tomorrow the obvious outsiders will be staring me in the face.
Not to say your are at all typographically naive, quite the opposite. Yet you have given yourself rules that compel you to do “the wrong thing”. Keep doing it then, it’s working!
And that Q is totally bad ASS! I suggest you don’t change a brick of it.
Really hard for me to say what to change when I personally love all the inconsistencies. You may need a more objective analysis, but such an analysis is antithetical to the spirit of this font. I would say: all the most amazing fontstructions take flight with their flaws, and this one among them!
@will.i.ૐ: I think you're probably right, rationalising it would wreck it. Besides, where to start?!
I don't mind being naive, by the way. I haven't had any training in typography. I'll always be grateful that one of my first bosses in the industry alerted me to the world of typography. That would be 1971. Phew.
If there is one change to make, it’s further differentiating (just a bit, if possible) the C and G.
@will.i.ૐ: just for you... exception 13b:
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