Strikes me that it makes more sense to have the italic rotationally symmetrical but the roman more reflectionally symmetrical (about the central stem/y-axis). Not sure why but feels more appropriate, maybe I'm thinking of those zhe's which have a lower case 'c' structure to them (a bit like a cursive Greek kappa with a vertical line down the middle. They only seem to exist in italic.
Plus don't you love the way both the words Italic and Roman effectively mean 'from Italy' (and thus Latin) and therefore are perhaps rather inappropriate in a conversation about Cyrillic? Maybe one should talk about cursive and upright instead? Can of worms maybe, sorry.
(If it's not already apparent, I'm out of my depth.)
22 Mar 2012 — 12:04pm
Type battle Ж
https://www.facebook.com/notes/cyrillic-typography/type-battle-ж/396063967072151
22 Mar 2012 — 12:08pm
I don't have Facebook...
But if anybody wants to post
this there that would be great.
hhp
22 Mar 2012 — 12:14pm
edit: Whoops, didn't realize this was a zombie thread, and my joke had already been made one page (and 5 years) earlier.
23 Mar 2012 — 6:42am
The original "organic" concept* isn't so Bangles. :-)
And after almost eight years I finally have a good
reason** to make it into beziers, so...
* http://typophile.com/node/30024#comment-173469
** http://www.facebook.com/cyrillictype
hhp
23 Mar 2012 — 1:10pm
This is by Gennady Zarechnyuk, a "native":
Is this for real?! I mean, is it usable? Wow.
hhp
23 Mar 2012 — 3:10pm
Gennady’s little joke.
That’s a Big Yus.
23 Mar 2012 — 3:14pm
He is a couple from his family of fonts
23 Mar 2012 — 3:16pm
Doesn't the Big Yus need a closed top?
hhp
23 Mar 2012 — 3:23pm
Yes, you’re right.
It reminded me of Big Yus.
Kind of a hybrid, then?
23 Mar 2012 — 3:30pm
Do you want fancy? Please suit yourself ;-)
http://free.type.org.ua/en/category/style/fancy/
23 Mar 2012 — 3:52pm
Another from Gennady:
And some from Viktor Kharyk:
27 Mar 2012 — 1:12am
Your "ж" is cool, however "д" and "У" strike me as odd.
From a regular user of cyrillic typefaces.
27 Mar 2012 — 5:36am
Just to be clear: do you mean mine or Gennady's?
hhp
27 Mar 2012 — 8:36am
Strikes me that it makes more sense to have the italic rotationally symmetrical but the roman more reflectionally symmetrical (about the central stem/y-axis). Not sure why but feels more appropriate, maybe I'm thinking of those zhe's which have a lower case 'c' structure to them (a bit like a cursive Greek kappa with a vertical line down the middle. They only seem to exist in italic.
Plus don't you love the way both the words Italic and Roman effectively mean 'from Italy' (and thus Latin) and therefore are perhaps rather inappropriate in a conversation about Cyrillic? Maybe one should talk about cursive and upright instead? Can of worms maybe, sorry.
(If it's not already apparent, I'm out of my depth.)
30 Mar 2012 — 1:23am
@hrant Yours. д is weird because the base stroke doesn't continue to the right. And У is not Y...
30 Mar 2012 — 6:03am
Thanks for the native critique!
д: I think you must be right.
The "У" ended up that way because of how the "Y" and "y"
were in the original Latin (Primex). But maybe I did go in
the wrong direction...
hhp