Typophile - TYPE BATTLE: Week 10 (3 April) - Comments

> back in grade school hell

istitch — Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:22:23 -0700

> back in grade school
hell yeah! i remember drawing those!

sorry about the rectilinear

koleslaw — Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:25:07 -0700

sorry about the rectilinear forms, but the ultra black version was never considered “sissy” back in grade school!

i like the S, but i’m not

istitch — Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:03:39 -0700

i like the S, but i’m not so sure about that A…
; )

I am loving Randy’s S

negativespace — Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:58:17 -0700

I am loving Randy’s S also! Nice work.

Light to Ultra Black. One

Randy — Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:53:08 -0700

Light to Ultra Black.
One end to the other.

None of you are creating the

Miss Tiffany — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:41:24 -0700

None of you are creating the image at 600x400 px ... :^/ (Not complaining, just noticing.)

drawn by hand, scanned by

timd — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:36:08 -0700

drawn by hand, scanned by an imbecile.
Tim

Randy, which two weights did

scruggsdesign — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:13:11 -0700

Randy, which two weights did you interpolate/extrapolate between?

Hi all! May be it’s too

danya_design — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:25:20 -0700

Hi all! May be it’s too ordinary but I have done this.

Randy, this is great. I love

Miss Tiffany — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:22:35 -0700

Randy, this is great. I love how you rationalized the weight changes. almost like going from a text to a display face as it gets heavier.

I tried out another letter

Randy — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 07:54:27 -0700

I tried out another letter so see if the monoline -> bubble in a single interpolation was a one-trick pony. It’s not exactly right, but it’s not terrible either. The middle was a first attempt. The bottom is after tweeking the ultra master. The mid-weights are still not right and I prefer the ultra version in the middle, but it’s a decent start.

If I was going to turn this into a font, I’d probably make the masters the light and black. Then do the doublestuff version on it’s own. Too much of a stretch to use the same nodes as the light. Fun to push the limit though.

Beeyootiful! I especially

Kellie Strøm — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 05:00:05 -0700

Beeyootiful! I especially like Koleslaw’s, Randy’s and Dave’s.

OK, the ‘proper’ curvy

dtw — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 03:01:16 -0700

OK, the ’proper’ curvy one is there to legitimize the posting of an otherwise “sissy, rectilinear” one: I was just grabbed by the sudden idea of “fractal emboldening”! I hope you’ll all excuse the simplistic square “light” version on those grounds!!!

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Here’s my attempt #2

Jeffdesign — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:25:59 -0700

Here’s my attempt #2

»thought we might be

Zara Evens — Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:38:41 -0700

»thought we might be talking about actual drawing by hand«

Nowhere does it say letterforms must be created digitally. :)

TYPE BATTLE: Week 10 (3 April)

Christian Robertson — Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:18:10 -0700

TYPE BATTLE: Week 10 (3 April)

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.

Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle10

Requirements:

- Size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- 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: ’S’ MAYHEM
Draw a total of 4 s’s. Four weights: light, regular, bold, ultra-black. And sissy rectilinear s’s don’t count.