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Van Dijck Sans Serif
Posted by JanekZ in
18 Feb 2012 — 9:14am
18 Feb 2012 — 9:14am
I came up with making a sans serif based on this serif face
What do you think?
Edit: pdf attached. Lower part of deVremde_const.pdf for comparison with VDijck Serif. Some changes and the rest of UC letters.
| Attachment | Size |
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| sans1.pdf | 106.92 KB |
| deVremde_const.pdf | 39.9 KB |
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19 Feb 2012 — 5:10am
How about larger pics or pdf's?
19 Feb 2012 — 2:37pm
I don’t think this is contributing much to the flock… Apart from the fact that the kerning is way off there are not enough glyphs presented to give a fair impression.
19 Feb 2012 — 5:02pm
I made 26 letters of yet, just to see whether the font is worth something or not.
I think this one could be regular/text plus some ultra light to heavy for display purposes.
20 Feb 2012 — 1:05pm
Hmmm... It's not bad, but I think it's too clean to work with your serif. I think it needs a little more of that classic warmth. Right now it seems stuck between classic warmth and modern cleanliness, IMO.
20 Feb 2012 — 4:57pm
I like it. The lowercase g seems to be rotating counterclockwise.
21 Feb 2012 — 1:51am
Thank you both for the comments.
"g" - I will reshape it a bit.
As for now it is an exact copy of my serif font with serifs removed. First, I want to finish all letters and then to think what to do next.
cheers
21 Feb 2012 — 3:36pm
I really like the serif. It is very harmonious/classic warm. So I want to see the sans-serif to be as good.
The "trapeze" where the vertical weight goes from thick, to thin, to thick is interesting.
Personally on the /l/ & /h/ & /b/ & /d/ I find it creates a "top heavy" font, a little unbalanced for my taste.
Also, I miss the beautiful bowls of the serif /d/ & /b/ ... in this condensed sans-serif version.
Additional I would love to see a sans-serif where you keep the original's playfulness, like the /f/ ascender, and elegance like the /j/ descender.
I see great potential in this sans-serif font, maybe you could keep more of the original's caracter.
21 Feb 2012 — 4:58pm
Thanks very much. I see some (many;) issues, so back to the work.