Thanks for the offer! It’s actually not for a setting though, but for an extension to an existing Industria-like font. I’d like to check my decisions against something “established”, and since you were at Zhukov’s TDC thing it would certainly be useful to see the character set of your font, assuming you’d be OK with that.
Any others?
Emigre’s Modula Tall has a Greek, but I guess
not a Cyrillic, not even an “unofficial” one?
well for the de, i and pe, it looks like Tatlin uses script forms for these letters. these forms are also used in (some) serif italics, so you could also think of these as upright italic forms. Tatlin also uses the Delta shape for the upper case De and EL, which fit well with geometric designs (but i might question this decision for something so tall...) if i remember rightly, these Delta shaped forms originally are associated with renaissance type, although the triangular El goes back as far as the inception of Peter the Great’s Civil Type (someone correct me if i’m wrong on these points).
For a script-informed sans style, see this alphabet in my flicker stuff.
Paul, thanks - makes sense - in fact it confirms my suspicions.
Presumably mixing “roman” and cursive forms in one font is taboo (and I think I remember Zhukov saying something to that effect in his LCT piece). But I have to wonder how much readers would really mind.
BTW, have others put up images from the TDC Cyrillic workshop?
hhp
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15.May.2007 7.58pm
Not quite as geometric but about the same height:
ChrisL
PS: send me the text you need set
15.May.2007 8.40pm
Thanks for the offer! It’s actually not for a setting though, but for an extension to an existing Industria-like font. I’d like to check my decisions against something “established”, and since you were at Zhukov’s TDC thing it would certainly be useful to see the character set of your font, assuming you’d be OK with that.
Any others?
Emigre’s Modula Tall has a Greek, but I guess
not a Cyrillic, not even an “unofficial” one?
hhp
16.May.2007 1.29am
FF Marten Cyrillic Grotesque
16.May.2007 5.47am
I’ll send you the character set as it stands but their are still some things in it that I am not happy with yet.
ChrisL
16.May.2007 6.56am
Stephen, thanks! I should’ve remembered Marten, since I used to
complain that it’s too close to Modula (or vice versa, I forget).
Chris, super. If you just notate which you’re
not happy with yet that would be extra good.
hhp
16.May.2007 8.03am
Hrant, maybe you need Tatlin:
http://www.linotype.com/180869/tatlincyrillicregular-font.html
16.May.2007 1.18pm
Ah! Super.
hhp
16.May.2007 2.14pm
Well I guess that Dan answered that question. :-)
ChrisL
17.May.2007 11.16am
Who can (and will) tell me more about the differences in treatment of
the lowercase deh, i and to a lesser extent el* between Marten and Tatlin?
* Extending to the UC for that one, and maybe dragging in the UC Deh as well.
hhp
17.May.2007 12.25pm
well for the de, i and pe, it looks like Tatlin uses script forms for these letters. these forms are also used in (some) serif italics, so you could also think of these as upright italic forms. Tatlin also uses the Delta shape for the upper case De and EL, which fit well with geometric designs (but i might question this decision for something so tall...) if i remember rightly, these Delta shaped forms originally are associated with renaissance type, although the triangular El goes back as far as the inception of Peter the Great’s Civil Type (someone correct me if i’m wrong on these points).
For a script-informed sans style, see this alphabet in my flicker stuff.
19.May.2007 11.30am
Paul, thanks - makes sense - in fact it confirms my suspicions.
Presumably mixing “roman” and cursive forms in one font is taboo (and I think I remember Zhukov saying something to that effect in his LCT piece). But I have to wonder how much readers would really mind.
BTW, have others put up images from the TDC Cyrillic workshop?
hhp