Artform Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform I'm going to open a can-o-worms here. I think the letter 'g' is one of the few characters that really stand out in a type face. There are a multitude of ways it can be crafted. With so many fonts out there, I look at a few letters -- the lowercase g in particular. This is how I propose the thread will work. I'm not here to militarize things... just some friend standardization. 1. Go to a font site (I prefer http://www.fontshop.com/ because you can link to samples) 2. Find your font 3. Post a link to it (if possible to the sample) along with the font name. For example: Natalie Script OThttp://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/paratype/natali_script_ot/?sampl... You can also post an image. Let's see your G-sus. Link to comment
domdib Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Here are two: Relato bold and Relato Sans bold italic Link to comment
Ehague Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Arrighi: I really like earless italic gs. Link to comment
Stephen Coles Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 MercuryDidoniJulia ScriptStillaFF CliffordAmplitudeFF StradaMiserichordiaSamSansMissionary Link to comment
adnix Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Jigsaw has a cool lowercase ghttp://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/typotheque/jigsaw_solid_bundle/ Link to comment
MHSmith Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 May I say the best g ever is Baskerville's? (and some of the worst are Benguiat's). Link to comment
Stephen Coles Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Oh yes. Good call on Ambroise. Link to comment
Bald Condensed Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 I'd like to bend the rules a bit and post one of the worst lowercase 'g's known in the history of man. :^P Link to comment
MHSmith Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Strangely, the g in Missionary seems to derive from one of the two extraordinary alternate gs in Renner's original Futura, which I was just about to post: Architype Renner (sorry, tiny showing). Plus: Didot Elder Porchez's Ambroise has the same kind of lowercase g (without the arrowheads on G). Hey, my post has moved down again. Link to comment
chuck Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 I agree about the Baskerville "g," and of course Renner's original/alternate Futura "g." Then there's the Modula "g" Here's an interesting link Story of the Letter G. Link to comment
plumbago Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Does anyone want to give a try to the "g" I posted at the ID Type Pop Quiz? Link to comment
jupiterboy Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 ^ is that a tag font? Gs from the first font I ever purchased. Link to comment
Grant Hutchinson Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Peter Bruhn has been working on some most lovely ‘g’s of late. Please encourage him to finish this face most quickly. http://bruhn.blogs.com/rants/2007/08/meet-the-g-frie.html Link to comment
domdib Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 FF Quadraat has lovely gs http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/fontfont/ff_quadraat_regular/?samp... http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff_quadraat_ot_italic/?... Link to comment
Nick Cooke Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Here are some I prepared earlier: Nick Cooke Link to comment
Artform Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 I should have been visiting my thread more. This is actually the first thread I've ever started here. Definitely bend the rules... can't have the good without the bad. @Nick: I like Digitalis - it's got character. Nubian is something I would use daily if I had license to it. ;) @Grant: I'm not sure if the font in "Meet the g-friends" is Opentype... if it is that's hot. I have a set of Zapfino and keep going through the alternates when typesetting. @Bald: I agree, the Trebuchet g is quite basic. I think the more a font is used, the more it gets abused. The more it gets abused, the more you want it disposed. Comic Sans anyone? Here's something I came across today:http://www.fontshop.com/search/?q=Deviata&sample_text=g&sample_size=388 I don't like how it flattens out at the bottom of the character. It's not noticeable at lower sizes. Link to comment
Stephen Coles Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 I think that's merely a bug in our system, Artform. The size menu goes up to 388, but sometimes the window can't quite take an image that large. Try 288. Link to comment
Jongseong Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Adding to the Matthew Carter love, here's Alisal: http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/creative_alliance/alisal/?sample... Link to comment
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