Typophile - Type Battle! Week 2 (23 Jan) - Comments

Go, Frankie, Go!

typomil — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:12:04 -0800

Go, Frankie, Go!

The new challenge can be

Bald Condensed — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:09:00 -0800

The new challenge can be found here.

great idea. perhaps a new

russellm — Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:58:07 -0800

great idea. perhaps a new challenge?

-=®=-

bump What happened to

Faiyaz — Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:46:46 -0800

*bump*

What happened to this? Is anyone going to continue it?

Eric, Very nice “gothic”

dezcom — Sat, 4 Feb 2006 12:28:57 -0800

Eric,
Very nice “gothic” swirl—takes Coke to the level of meaning instead of just device. Well done.

ChrisL

PS: Is Ruth Geshecter still in Cincy?

Wow, etothev, now we’re

hrant — Sat, 4 Feb 2006 10:58:52 -0800

Wow, etothev, now we’re talking swashy notan.

hhp

Hi, this is my first post

xochipilli — Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:45:42 -0800

Hi,
this is my first post here and I’m not sure if it’s ok to post after the deadline, but I’ll risk :)

here you go. what do you

G T — Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:20:10 -0800

here you go. what do you think?

Well Christian or Jared;

dewitte — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:14:10 -0800

Well Christian or Jared; What will be the new challenge?
Ready to battle.

etothev — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:33:37 -0800

Yup, much better… thanks

lunyboy — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:11:37 -0800

Yup, much better... thanks Pusher, I tend to get a little tunnel vision with my focus. See y’all next week. ;)

While most of us kept pretty

dezcom — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:02:32 -0800

While most of us kept pretty close to the expected result of swash, I think Johannes Blümel was the most creative in pushing the envelope of “what is swash” to begin with.
We had some nice uses in keeping with the nature of Franklin—and a few miss-matched prosthetic devices as well :-)

ChrisL

I still think Christian’s

Zara Evens — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:36:01 -0800

I still think Christian’s “art” submission is wonderful. The swashes are well-crafted, original and unexpected.

This was touched on before, but much credit goes to those submissions that truly could be used as alternates for the FG family. Jared, Mark, Dan (pica pusher), and Grant stand out.

Oh, and I like mine :)

As a purist I feel like the

pica pusher — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:28:54 -0800

As a purist I feel like the most successful interpretations were those that obeyed the Franklin Gothic framework of low stroke modulation and square corners. (Like mine? Yes.) That said, most of these ended up feeling rather unimaginative. (Like mine...? Yes.) The most exciting turned out to be the ones where the swash was obviously out of place, but was used so confidently that it somehow seemed to make sense. A lesson that holds true in all fields of art: if something is a conscious, confident decision, the viewer has no choice but to accept it!

luny, Great rendition, your

letter queue — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:07:18 -0800

luny,
Great rendition, your appropriation seems...well...appropriate.
The finial on the F is a bit black though, I’d like to see what it would look like if you shortened the curl to end parallel with the crossbar?

Type Battle! Week 2 (23 Jan)

Christian Robertson — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:03:37 -0800

TYPE BATTLE: Week 2 (23 Jan)

Here's your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.

Winner take all, no holds barred. May be the best designer win.

Requirements:

- Size: 600 width x 400 height.
- Color: Black and white only
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge.

// THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
// Create three swash characters for Franklin Gothic.