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Custom for Car Designer
Posted by JSuomalainen in
16 Jun 2012 — 2:54pm
16 Jun 2012 — 2:54pm
This typeface is a custom face for a car designers portfolio.
I want to do something maybe a bit generic with some nice details to bring variation/ something fresh.
Please, tell me what you guys think and if someone can suggest reference material, please let me know.
As you can see from my fonts I'm familiar with Audi's typeface already...
Text from wikipedia (not about the designer, just about random Korean and Japanese stuff)
Everything is still indesign optical.
| Attachment | Size |
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| seo.pdf | 58.37 KB |
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16 Jun 2012 — 4:05pm
I like that you're being creative with the symbols, but your copyright symbol has probably gone too far afield. Conceivably, a mark that doesn't quite fit the description of a C enclosed in a circle may leave the user open to arguments that the legal criteria have not been met for what constitutes a copyright notice.
17 Jun 2012 — 3:28am
Pdf updated.
23 Jul 2012 — 5:07am
Are the angles sharp enough to work for a Car company? A french car company would be fine, but I would think a manufacturer from anywhere else would want sharper, stronger looking corners.
I'd take a look at Klavika Condensed (GM's current font)
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/processtype/klavika/
and Toyota's current font.
http://www.fonts-download.net/fonts/tables/T/Toyota-MR2A_C_table.png
Another idea--since you're working with a car designer, you have a great opportunity to use line segments from the body work curves they have already designed. Both type designers and car body designers essentially just create and shape curves..
My 2 cents...
11 Aug 2012 — 7:44am
That /g/ is just not reading for me at all. It looks like it was cut off in a printer error. Have you considered a complete, closed bowl? Maybe even a one-story /g/? I'd also suggest bringing in the flag on the /1/ a bit, probably in length but perhaps in weight, too. It's too heavy for me as of now.
Other than that, it looks quite fun!
11 Aug 2012 — 11:03am
That's what's called the Danish "g", and I personally think it fits quite well here. A controversial glyphs can actually help sell a face (Spiekermann has said as much about Meta's "g") as long as it doesn't destroy functionality - and this is no text face! :-)
My only big gripe is the lc "q" - that one is too much!
hhp
11 Aug 2012 — 1:03pm
I have noticed that Germans, Scandinavians, etc. tend to treat the letter Q as an O with a diacritic, since their languages don't really use it. For a bespoke font that isn't likely to spread to a global market, this might be a better choice than a normal "q" which may be mistaken for a "g" by such readers. It's quirky but still readable by English speakers, though I can't speak for q-rich languages like Spanish.
19 Nov 2012 — 9:47pm
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20 Nov 2012 — 7:56am
Personally, I like original cuts of |q| formed after the model of |Q|, but I've gotten negative feedback on that as well in the past... I guess the world it not quite ready yet for this kind of revolution. ;)
I certainly like the |g|. The overall appearance of the font strikes me as rather loud (almost as if it were written in all-caps) and technical. Perhaps that's a desired quality for a car designer, though. What kind of cars are we talking about?
2 Dec 2012 — 5:52pm
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17 May 2013 — 5:11am
Car designing is the most necessary thing for the promotion and marketing of the car models. The manufacturer always focus on the designing of the in its manufacturing process. Now a days the public demand is because of the nice designing and modeling of the vehicles. This is quite necessary in case of luxury and sports vehicles. Everyone always wants their cars and bikes should be more stylish and beautiful.
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