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Greek handwritten architectural typeface for critique
Posted by vank in
9 Apr 2006 — 10:25am
9 Apr 2006 — 10:25am
I'm preparing this typeface based on the 'architectural' handwriting of a good friend.
The idea is that it should resemble the handwriting used for marks on architectural drawings and things of the sort.
In the first place it will be bilingual (english and greek monotonic), and soon it will, hopefully, be "equipped" with polytonic support and german language support.
Your comments/critique are more than welcomed. =)
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9 Apr 2006 — 3:17pm
Hurts my eyes to read. I suspect because of the small bowls in the vowels. Looks cool though.
9 Apr 2006 — 5:07pm
You have avoided sharing the "cognate" (John's term)
caps between the two scripts? A big hug to you - bravo.
My main criticism is that the Greek is clearly darker.
You either have to space it looser (I'd have to see a PDF
to know if that's smart) or actually lighten the strokes.
hhp
10 Apr 2006 — 1:07pm
Hi 'hrant' and thank you so much for the commenting :)
I'm afraid i don't quite get what you mean when you refer to "'cognate' caps" :(
10 Apr 2006 — 1:26pm
I think it means letters that are structurally identical and/because they have the same origin (?). Namely here: ABEZHIKMNOPTYX (I guess). Except not only do I think they don't need to be "identical", but they shouldn't be.
BTW, Hrant is actually my name. :-)
It's Armenian, and it means fiery.
Speaking of Armenian, FYI "vank"
means monastery! :-)
hhp
10 Apr 2006 — 5:26pm
> It’s Armenian, and it means fiery.
Isn't that kind of redundant when speaking of Armenians?
: )
10 Apr 2006 — 5:39pm
:->
It's relative I guess. And we have exceptions. Like Tigran
Petrosian, who would win his matches by ploddingly boring his
opponents to death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian
hhp
11 Apr 2006 — 12:18am
The Latin 'o' is extremely narr/w and disrupts reading.
The Greek 'o' looks a bit strangely shaped to me, but I don't read Greek.
12 Apr 2006 — 11:30pm
thank you all so much for your input :)
I'm taking everything into account and see what i can come up with.