Papercut stencil typeface
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I've been thinking for a while about trying to do an intentionally minimalist typeface, prioritizing a small set of repeated segments -- quarter circles and, where necessary, straight lines -- over more practical concerns like legibility and whatnot, and took a crack at starting in on it today now that I've gotten to know Inkscape a little.
This is the result, actually a minor variant on what I'm thinking of as the main version of the typeface -- here I removed some quarter circle segments on glyphs that would otherwise leave internal circles behind in a stencil context. But the feeling is about the same either way.
This is the result, actually a minor variant on what I'm thinking of as the main version of the typeface -- here I removed some quarter circle segments on glyphs that would otherwise leave internal circles behind in a stencil context. But the feeling is about the same either way.
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There's a gut-logic driving some of the design decisions that got those to where they are in this draft. I've got some alternate glyph designs for them as well, none of which I'm really happy with but I may break in that direction for the sake of keeping the height of those characters more in traditional bounds. But we'll see.
I like the lack of tail on the j as much as anything for the deliberate obliqueness and the bullheaded insistence on getting three letter forms that are all slightly different version of Just A Straight Vertical Line. But I also spend a lot of time with the letter j so I've got maybe a weird attitude about it. I agree that a curved tail on it would be a better safety play for legibility.
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https://www.myfonts.com/fonts...
I figure the basic conceit of very minimal forms has got to be the sort of thing that anyone whose seriously pursued type design has approached a dozen different ways in the process of honing their craft, whether they ended up running with it or throwing it out as too goofy.
I dig that lc "k" in the Bayer specimen, just sticking it to traditional ascender choices. My s and z's slightly less weird cousin.
cough (translate) I really like the fat k :)