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New Sans: Libertad (V3.57)
Posted by ferfolio in
30 Jul 2010 — 4:30pm
30 Jul 2010 — 4:30pm
Hi everybody
I've been working on a new sans(and a new serif).
Recieving feedback!.
Best regards and thanks!
(También hablo español,
cualquier cosa a las órdenes)
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30 Jul 2010 — 5:04pm
Overall looks really good, but from the start, your acute and grave accents look too horisontal; I was thaught that they should fly off the tangent of 'o', but yours seem to hover over them. And your standard 4 looks wider than other numerals. And I would go with vertical stems with Æ and Œ; Scandinavians like that sort of things.
Readability and leigibility are very good, so good stuff!
30 Jul 2010 — 5:13pm
Hi Tomi!
Thank for the feedback, the accents are very horizontal becouse it's how we use them on spanish, but, I could do both! It's not a bad idea.
About the Æ and Œ, tell me more!
The ones i've made are not very accepted?
Best regards.
30 Jul 2010 — 5:21pm
http://typophile.com/node/68140
30 Jul 2010 — 5:30pm
My teacher was French, so that could be the difference. Æ and Œ are mainly used today in Scandinavia, so they know the best practice, as you can see from that previous post by Riccardo.
30 Jul 2010 — 5:33pm
Thank you both,
Will do them correctly in the next version, i've allways wanted to know that!
30 Jul 2010 — 5:42pm
Who's using Πin Scandinavia, Tomi? Didn't the vikings get rid of that stuff around year 1300?
30 Jul 2010 — 5:45pm
Oøœps, sorry. Æ is still in use. We Finns just never learn…
30 Jul 2010 — 6:19pm
Norwegian newspapers never learn :) They still mistype œ for æ every-now-and-then.
30 Jul 2010 — 6:46pm
The lowercase "r" seems a bit narrow to me, given that the typeface is intended for small sizes.
Cheers,
T
30 Jul 2010 — 7:46pm
Thanks Thomas,
Will fix that,
I often read your blog! :)
30 Jul 2010 — 8:46pm
I think a descending /f/ can work, but to my eye yours descends a little too much.
31 Jul 2010 — 7:48am
@eliason
You think? The desends are too low in general or only in the "f"?
Regards
31 Jul 2010 — 10:22am
Hola Fernando. Well, it seems that sans projects always receive much more contributions than serif ones. My two cents:
01: about acute, what I told about Fénix applies here too. But I must add that Libertad acute has a wonderful shape, really handsome.
02: I like your f descender, but I believe it needs the same bottom cut as thorn descender.
03: your alternates for a and k are insightful and welcome, especially the 5th k and the 4th a. I don't like alternate s because its curves seem to be irregular –and so it does not fit to font overall regularity.
04: very nice numbers! I guess oldstyle 6 and 9 will work better with a somewhat bigger "o" to compensate the area "lost" due to out-of-lining arcs. Some test besides other oldstyle numbers would confirm or not my impression. Anyway, I don't like 5 vertical stem. It makes the glyph appear a bit inclined towards left. Maybe a small inclination in the stem solves this.
05: W could be a bit narrowed.
06: as it's intended to small sizes, comma and apostrophe may benefit with a stronger tail.
07: I second Thomas opinion about r.
I like very much general text effect. Very clear, regular and legible. Glyphs d, p, q, h, m, n and g are perfect. I surely would use it with alternate a #4.
Keep the great work.
31 Jul 2010 — 10:50am
@ Freiberger
I'll have this into consideration
Thanks for the comments! :)
I've posted some comments on your typeface!
31 Jul 2010 — 10:51am
Only in the /f/.
31 Jul 2010 — 11:03am
Apologies for coming back to Œ; I wanted to point out that it is still in use in France, as in "Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre Dame" (http://www.oeuvre-notre-dame.org/index2.htm), "Œdipe" (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%92dipe), "L’Œil de la Médiathèque" (http://veille.ircam.fr/), and so on.
3 Aug 2010 — 2:33am
I recently saw an old german book that use the Œ to write GŒTHE instead of GOETHE. Surely here it was used as an (unintended?) decorative ligature...?