Typophile - TYPE BATTLE: Week 12 (22 May) - Comments

Damn, my “job” had to

pica pusher — Sun, 28 May 2006 07:46:20 -0700

Damn, my “job” had to pick this week to become time-consuming. Bang-up job, everybody.

Why was there such a long gap between week 11 and week 12?

Also, Dave, I like your alternate take on a “dg” monogram... It avoids encroaching on my marca registrada quite nicely.

I think anyone who completed

timd — Sun, 28 May 2006 02:29:57 -0700

I think anyone who completed this battle has done an impressive job. Randy’s reminds me of Preissig.
Tim

The one thing that I’ve

dave gath — Sat, 27 May 2006 21:54:58 -0700

The one thing that I’ve gotta say about looking at your own work after a full night’s sleep... it turns out looking really different than the night before. And lots of ideas come to you about how to change it or do it differently and make it better when you’re not staring at it trying to get it done so quickly. A tricky assignment for this battle. And a good exercise.

I am really impressed with all of the stuff that was posted... even more so after my own attempt. Can’t wait for the next battle.

Randy, that is gorgeous.

Miss Tiffany — Sat, 27 May 2006 11:45:38 -0700

Randy, that is gorgeous.

Randy, the concept of yours

Sebastian Nagel — Sat, 27 May 2006 09:12:28 -0700

Randy, the concept of yours reminds me of Beowulf, which reads surprisingly well in small sizes as well.

Here’s my crack-a-lack….

dave gath — Sat, 27 May 2006 01:03:17 -0700

Here’s my crack-a-lack....

Randy, this is fantastic!

andyclymer — Fri, 26 May 2006 19:31:40 -0700

Randy, this is fantastic!

Remarkable! Good work!

Kristian M — Fri, 26 May 2006 15:08:18 -0700

Remarkable! Good work!

No curves = mucho speedier.

Randy — Fri, 26 May 2006 09:53:41 -0700

No curves = mucho speedier. Curves = tweek, check, tweek, check, tweek check.
4 hours is downright miraculous given your spacing and polish. Everyone elses look great too. Nice job all!

1 hour? Go Randy! My post

Christian Robertson — Fri, 26 May 2006 09:32:42 -0700

1 hour? Go Randy! My post took four. Of course, an hour of that was trying to make the darn thing look good in photoshop.

Further proof that fonts are

Randy — Fri, 26 May 2006 09:28:21 -0700

Further proof that fonts are addicting. Just a few more minutes ... Doh

Randy — Fri, 26 May 2006 08:31:04 -0700

i am speechless. every

Yotam — Thu, 25 May 2006 04:03:09 -0700

i am speechless. every single entry is brilliant.
you guy rock.

drawn some glyphs on paper,

Sebastian Nagel — Thu, 25 May 2006 03:20:19 -0700

drawn some glyphs on paper, about 10cm in height:
r a b n o x c q g j

Then switched to the computer as it took too long, and did a redraw (no tracing &c.)

Text optimizations: sturdy strokes, rather short ascenders and descenders (for my means...)

Anti-text: maybe too detailed yet, and there are two different designs in it at the moment. There would be so much to do, but I have to leave now, otherwise we need a support group for typedesigners hunted down by the support group for typedesigners’ significant others.

PS. I think I’ll call it “Type Battle 12 #7”

Well for speed I went for

dtw — Thu, 25 May 2006 01:27:38 -0700

Well for speed I went for draw-it-straight-in-the-computer. Lots of modular bits (verticals, horizontals, serifs), plug ’em together and tweak to fit, with occasional sideways glances at Karen Cheng’s book...

All drawn on one line in CorelDraw and then imported into TypeTool (see, a non-designer with non-designer’s software! LOL). Sidebearings as per Cheng, kerned about ¼ of the necessary pairs then thought ’stuff this, it’s taking too long’... Paragraph assembled line by line in Photoshop as I’d stuffed up the vertical metrics.

I do like Kristian’s: those serifs are far more elegant than my hobnail-boot-like ones!
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TYPE BATTLE: Week 12 (22 May)

Christian Robertson — Mon, 22 May 2006 09:54:28 -0700

TYPE BATTLE: Week 12 (22 May)

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/battle12

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:
// Complete an entire lower case optimized for text, and set a paragraph. This is a speed contest. Don’t worry about making everything perfect (just better than everyone else’s).