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Fredo
After a long time I decided to revise and finish a typeface I worked on a while ago. My intention was to make it suitable for small sizes from about 7 to 9 points. Hope you like it.
By the way: It is named after a character of The Godfather. Just like my other typeface Im working on at the moment http://typophile.com/node/55850.
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| Fredo.pdf | 83.98 KB |
| Fredo-002.pdf | 84.56 KB |
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4 Sep 2009 — 9:37am
Looks nice. I like the g.
I think the question mark could be a bit bolder.
5 Sep 2009 — 9:03am
Very good. I think the "g" is a little to narrow and timid, actually. And the thinness of the verticals of "4" and "7" is perhaps more suitable for a display typeface than for one intended for footnotes.
There's something very familiar with the top serifs of mnpr and the ascending glyphs ... Mercury Text, perhaps? That's not a problem, but I somehow feel that serif is vaguely out of context with the rest of the typeface, but that might just be me.
12 Sep 2009 — 8:03am
Thank you for your comments so far.
Didn`t had much time to work on it but I made a few little changings and uploaded a new pdf (002). Mainly changing some sidebearings and making the inktraps a bit wider. Think it is a bit more readable now in smaller sizes.
The top one is the old. I widend the g, broadend the ? and gave the letters like Z etc a sharp inner corner.
Although I changed the numerals a bit and added old style numerals
4 Oct 2009 — 12:27pm
This is very harmonious already. Lovely work!
I'm also a learner so take my comments with a dab of salt...
I'm slightly concerned about the wide N and narrow W. Lowercase w is a slight bit narrow too? And I'd make the tail on the comma a tiny bit longer. Bottom of G looks a bit heavy? And perhaps the terminal of the tail on y could be heavier?