Member zen… Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform In the video here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F691weEVpwc&feature=related ....Erik Spiekermann says his favorite letter is the "small a"...I totally agree....It is the most complex and has the most potential for variation as he says....That is one of the reasons I have always been fascinated with the "Galliard" typeface, it is revolutionary since it dares to "throw away" much of the potential variation of the small letter a and replace that with just a uniform width straight line!!!....INGENIOUS I say..... Link to comment
Member zen… Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 PS...I know, that straight line in Galliard's small a is not exactly uniform width, it is slightly narrower at the upper right part etc, but at 12 or 14 point that detail is hard to tell and few notice it. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 The Armenian lowercase հ. It has so many stories to tell, not least about the future. http://www.flickr.com/photos/istype/7605119742 hhp Link to comment
Member Cha… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Some S's that I have made throughout my career. The S is my favorite letter. Some are fonts and others are lettering jobs. :) Link to comment
Member zen… Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Have you ever made the so called "archaic long s"? Link to comment
Member Cha… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 When I was practicing Spencerian years ago I made the long s. Not sure if that is the same thing you are talking about. Link to comment
Member zen… Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 I am referring to the long s that looks like an f without the right side part of the f cross bar. Link to comment
Member Té… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Sounds like a normal long s to me. Link to comment
Member Cha… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 The ones I did years ago just looked like an f without the crossbar. Link to comment
Member dav… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 My favourite glyph to make is the asterisk, and it's got to be five-pointed. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 And upside-down, or in certain styles slightly rotated. hhp Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Charles, wow, I'm surprised anyone likes the S! For me I spend about ten times the amount of time on the s then I have to on any other glyph. Link to comment
Member God… Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I would definitely pick capital R (apparently Erik Spiekermann's second favorite ^_^), I love when it isn't connected in the middle. It also has some sort of dynamism (maybe due to straight, curved and diagonal lines all in one letterform) and crispness to it that I like much. Link to comment
Member Cha… Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Ryan, That is why I like the S so much. Once you have mastered the S the other letters are easy :) Link to comment
Member qua… Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 @Ryan Maelhorn:For me I spend about ten times the amount of time on the s then I have to on any other glyph. Then Donald Knuth's experience in the design of Computer Modern is not atypical. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 That's at least half a coincidence, since he was only doing about half type design... hhp Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Then Donald Knuth's experience in the design of Computer Modern is not atypical. Seems there would be no better place to find that out than here. What does everyone else say? Is the S the hardest latin glyph? Link to comment
Member hra… Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 To me it's the binocular "g", by a long shot. And I'm not speaking only from my own experience - it's quite common to see a font that works fine... except for the "g"; or a font where the "g" is lifted/modified from an accomplished typeface because the designer couldn't get it right. hhp Link to comment
Member dez… Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I also love drawing the "S" because it has more gain than pain. For the opposite reason, I hate drawing "W." My favorite roman is the lower case "g"--here is one I am soon going to release (as a glyph) as part of my typeface Dez Petranian. Link to comment
Member rus… Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Gazimough, from the zingauloonian carbon script. Impossible to render with technology available in this sector. Link to comment
Member dbe… Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 S, yes. As for favorites, I like the i no dot the most. Vertical bar next. Then the back slash... Period and comma next... Then the stuff you can combine from that. Then the stuff you get to flip, so its two for one. Then then stuff you can just cut and paste from other stuff, all the way the down to... the S, no... the s is harder, less room. But the S is more filling, so it could be a toss up.;) Link to comment
Member qua… Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 @5star:5ive. Hmm. Inspired by this famous painting, were you? http://www.wisdomportal.com/Christmas/Figure5InGold.html Link to comment
Member 5st… Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 @quadibloc , Demuth's for sure, and J.J.'s too (amongst others)! www.graphicdeclaration.com/images/JasperJohns_5.jpg n. Link to comment
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