Perfecting the characters
larsenwork opened this issue · comments
I'm revisiting many of the curved characters...any thoughts/feedback?
Some of the updated characters
new tilde and t
Some of the capital letters
Further tweaking
Less rounded D, new terminal on J and narrower S
do you have some images with comparisons or the like? I’d like to help with feedback, but without knowing the character styles by heart it it is difficult :)
Thanks for your interest:) I think most of them (if not all) are merged into the default font now but I'll add comparisons to new images I might upload
Would love comparisons. These glyphs do look lovely, but it's hard to tell if they are an improvement over the original.
yeah, sorry about that - they were improvements - I didn't take screenshot of the old ones.
hnm: top right part of curved looked a bit thin + not round
t: bottom left part of curve was too thin + lower point was to far to the right (=> looked like the t was falling to the left)
tilde: the curves flow more "effortlessly" now
BDPR: more perfectly rounded and maybe a bit more boxed look
U: the bottom left and right part of the curve was too thin
J: the curved opened up too much before
S: can't remember what I fixed here.... :)
I will post before:after comparisons on future adjustments ;)
A description is better than nothing. Thanks.
I look forward to seeing more comparisons as this typeface develops.
a more playful l with hook
OLD
NEW
Interrobang
V1
V2
I compared this to other DIN designs, and I actually am not quite sure why you say this is a DIN :) Almost all the proportions are different, many of the terminals are very different... :)
@davelab6 Hehe...it started out a lot more "DIN'y" and trying to humanise it. What would you call it today?
I've thought about "humanist sans serif" but that's just dull...
note to self: update k and K...not happy with those
I think I would call it a RATIONAL humanist sans :) In the first image you posted:
The a is really humantic sans (frutiger et al) except for that totally level/flat crossbar, and then with all the flat-y sided rounds, which are not totally flat, there's a similar thing going on... so its not 'flat geometric' (as opposed to a round geometric like Avenir/Futura/etc) or a 'flat grotesk' (like just published https://github.com/googlefonts/rubik)
cc @EbenSorkin as he might have fun trying to define this :)
(and that 'rational' personality is core to DIN, so, there's some lineage here, but I don't think it is "a DIN")
@davelab6 I'm new to all this but the flat-y sided rounds, the (almost) symmetrical arcs in e.g. u, n and m, the wide apertures and smooth curves is what defines this font to me.
I looked at Roboto and SF and felt they were too grotesque and unfriendly and kinda took it from there
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@davelab6 yep...the good thing about calling it a "Something DIN" is the SEO/marketing aspect even if some other term might be technically more correct. I asked on Twitter the other day and Marcus' reply kinda confirmed my suspicion: https://twitter.com/larsenwork/status/620854141338931200
currently improving some letters, left = old, right = new
cheers, and happy new year! I've been crazy active - just not so much with spare time projects 😄