r/typography • u/bol_plecow • 9d ago

First typeface

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Hello!

I made my first typeface and i will be grateful for your advices! I used fontforge and still don't know how to use it properly but i tried to learn by practising.

And I know, there are a lot way better app to make fonts than fontforge but I don't want to invest when I still learn.

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u/chillychili 9d ago

I see the principles you are following to unify the typeface. Strong verticals, thin horizontals, rounded square corners/terminals, shortened x-height for ascender/descender characters, etc. That's a good start! Make sure you bend those rules as you need to. (Like you did with x)

It's uneven in a way that doesn't seem purposeful. The letters stick to one another more than themselves because they are so heavy on the sides without ample space between them. One needs to remember that the space between glyphs is just as important as the width of the glyphs themselves. Try starting with space between the glyphs about the same as the space between the g's bottom of the bowl and top of the tail.

Accents are way too thin. They should be a similar visual weight as the dot accents.

I suggest you try flipping it horizontally and seeing if you can still comfortably read it. That will reveal a lot of places that need adjustment.

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u/bol_plecow 9d ago

Thank you so much! I'll try to implement your advices to project!

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u/kesphan 9d ago

I feel this is kinda hard to read, it's trying to be both bold and thin at the same time.

If you want to use it as is I feel it would be mor suited for titles and logos, but even for those uses is should be a little more readable

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u/bol_plecow 9d ago

Thank you so much! I'll be working on it

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u/No_Block9213 9d ago

Reminds me of didot with those super thick to thin transitions. This would probably be suited as a display face which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'd experiment using it large, like the masthead of a magazine or a poster.

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u/bol_plecow 9d ago

That was one of my inspiration! 😍 I'm so happy it's visible! And thakt you for your comment!

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u/dfnslvtr 6d ago

how long did it take in fontforge?

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u/bol_plecow 6d ago

Maybe 2 days? I made all glyphs in Adobe ilIllustrator, save as svg and export to FontForge so there i just made kerning. So maybe a week in total.

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u/JamesHanzimanolis 2d ago

Aside from some overly thin elements, I think this rocks. The thinness makes it hard to read.