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Minah is a contemporary face

William Berkson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:46:15 -0700

Minah is a contemporary face with curls that somehow echoes the early 20th century feeling, but still looks contemporary and really charming.

That ATF version is better,

William Berkson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:38:46 -0700

That ATF version is better, but but the lower case still looks awkward to me.

I think that your earlier posted Lining Booklet face pulls it off better. Somehow the way the curl on the “a” makes the counter on the top of the a smaller, so it visually fits better, in spite of being over-wide. Similarly, the top of the “e” has the side arches pulled in, making it look narrower on top, and visually fit better. I still feel the Lining Booklet has problems, but the way the curls are handled generally give the face a jolly mood, without being saccharine, and that is distinctive and nice.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other faces from that era, such as the silent film title faces, which have the curls with a similar mood, but more well proportioned, and work better.

Bill — Here’s the ATF

kentlew — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:08:08 -0700

Bill —

Here’s the ATF version of the Latin Antique. Not much different from the BB&S version, but this showing looks a little nicer to me than the McGrew sample, and does the style a little more justice.

I hope Kris is getting a

dezcom — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:33 -0700

I hope Kris is getting a golden key to the whole vinyard out of the deal for his fine piece of work.

ChrisL

One question Kris, how much

Asvetic — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:58:30 -0700

One question Kris, how much wine are you getting out of this deal?

>That is LOVELY!! It does

William Berkson — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:27:49 -0700

>That is LOVELY!!

It does look much better than the ones I found in Mac McGrew. It is interesting that this more monoline version seems to work better with the stretched letter forms.

Now that I think of it, a lot of Marian Bantje’s stuff, which I adore, also uses monoline curls...

@Kent: That is LOVELY!!

Miss Tiffany — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:03:32 -0700

@Kent: That is LOVELY!!

Bill — LOL. But I don’t

kentlew — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:33:59 -0700

Bill — LOL. But I don’t think curls are in the offing ;-)

Hi William, I tried to show

Stefan Seifert — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:26:01 -0700

Hi William,

I tried to show with my pictures effects that letters show if they were looked upon with an out of focus. It becomes clearer what is meant by the optical ‘center’ of a letter. Or a thing that I call ryhtm. If the ‘a’ in the example (its design intuitively decentered to the right as we all do it day by day) is put out of focusand then used a filter that interpolates the remaining colour other forms come to the surface like these elliptical ones on the second picture. In theory the fields A an B have to have the same amount of blackness.
Second we see the optical center of the new curves pushed to the right almost simmetrical to the center line. So when we slightly may close our eyes over a text this is what has to remain as rythm giving parts. But I see its too much explaining for a thing that has to be done in design by intuition..
But I found it curious to see nevertheless.
Finally we have to be aware that when we design our curves we design also these hidden ones as well, don’t we?

Ciao William
see you in some other thread!

Stefan

Guess thats what the ‘V’

Stefan Seifert — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:16:38 -0700

Guess thats what the ‘V’ is for ;-)

Stefan

@Kris: “it’s quite

concrete — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:34:21 -0700

@Kris: “it’s quite different to what I normally draw & what’s currently fashionable.” Kris I think you are setting the fashion.

what is with the private party above???

>Now I find them

William Berkson — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:46:39 -0700

>Now I find them fascinating.

Victoriana-R virus—highly infectious and dangerous.

symptoms: In the male, initial symptoms include the sufferer declaring that portraits of the young Queen are ’hot’.

Design afflictions follow, involving curls :)

Bill, matey, you might want

kentlew — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:07:53 -0700

Bill, matey, you might want a different appellation than that P-word ;-) Aargh.

Sorry I never got back to those samples. Looks like you dug up your own. I was reluctant to derail the thread, but since the damage has already been done and you’ve already gone there, here is the Stephenson Blake Lining Booklet face that I was referring to. Another example of the genre.

I can understand your dislike. Victorian-era styles are an acquired taste. I didn’t used to like this sort of Latin thing. Now I find them fascinating.

— Kent.

Here’s one more post

eeblet — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:00:56 -0700

Here’s one more post continuing the lovefest for this typeface! I wish I could buy it now.... My eye is maybe 2% as keen as, say, Kent’s, but given how much I’ve enjoyed working with Feijoa, I trust Kris’ craftmanship a whole lot.

(And Kris, Scream Sorbet will be making a Feijoa flavor when they come into season again in Northern Cali. None of our customers will get the nerdy thrill that I do, but hey.)

—-
eeblet.com

>hijacked Arrrgh matey, me

William Berkson — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:20:40 -0700

>hijacked

Arrrgh matey, me be Pirate Bill, rough and tough I be :)

Hardys: a new custom typeface.

kris — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:23:10 -0700

Kia ora folks,

I’ve just finished a custom typeface for the Hardys wine range, owned by Constellation Wines Australia. You might be interested to see it, it’s quite different to what I normally draw & what’s currently fashionable. Your thoughts are welcome, as always!

—K