Help me choose

Question

Help me choose

larsenwork opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Andreas Larsen commented 9 years ago

I'll put different surveys here from time to time when I can't make up my mind.

Help me pick the default "l", "y" and "u"
UPDATE: Vote has ended

Andreas Larsen · Answer 1 · Sat Mar 28 2015 02:32:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

thanks for the replies so far - would be great to hear from more people - it's pretty even 😄

Manuel K · Answer 2 · Wed Apr 08 2015 04:21:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm curious about this. Are you willing to share some preliminary results?

Andreas Larsen · Answer 3 · Wed Apr 08 2015 06:11:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

it is in favour of changing the defaults but not with a wide margin (can't remember exact numbers)

I find it a bit interesting too since e.g. a straight l is good enough for both Apple and Google.

My thoughts so far:
curve y: yes
curve l: probably
stemmed u: probably not (I think it looks cleaner without and it doesn't increase legibility which both the curved y and l does

Manuel K · Answer 4 · Wed Apr 08 2015 06:24:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I think the curve on the l is really important.

@espiekermann seems to think so, too. Although it could be his usual Helvetica bashing.

Andreas Larsen · Answer 5 · Wed Apr 08 2015 06:37:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yep, I've only just started designing fonts (Gidole is my first) so I haven't really gotten a "religious" opinion about it - although I like things as clean as possible.

And I'll probably end up adding it as default although slightly different design so it feels more at home with the current t but that discussion belongs in #25

Andreas Larsen · Answer 6 · Wed Jun 03 2015 02:57:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the votes, I ended changing the y and the l
Results for anyone curious:

Which "l" should be default?	Which "u" should be default?	Which "y" should be default?	Optional comment
current	with stem	current
hooked	current	curvy
hooked	with stem	curvy
hooked	current	curvy

hooked	with stem	curvy
current	current	curvy
current	with stem	current
hooked	with stem	curvy
current	current	current
hooked	with stem	curvy
hooked	with stem	current	I think the l without the hook is prettier, but the defaults should be usable for a body text and the version with the hook is more legible.
hooked	current	curvy
hooked	with stem	curvy
current	with stem	curvy
hooked	with stem	curvy
hooked	with stem	current
hooked	with stem	curvy
	current	current	Alternates would be good. Hooked, stem and curvy seem to be the standard for lowercase in a DIN. I like the simplicity of Gidole though. Just want more weights!
hooked	current	curvy