Gg - Fonts with a cool G/g letterform

[Member Art…]

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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 OT
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/paratype/natali_script_ot/?sampl...

You can also post an image. Let's see your G-sus.

[Member dom…]

Here are two: Relato bold and Relato Sans bold italic

[Member Eha…]

Arrighi: I really like earless italic gs.

[Member Ste…]

Mercury
Didoni
Julia Script
Stilla
FF Clifford
Amplitude
FF Strada
Miserichordia
SamSans
Missionary

[Member adn…]

Jigsaw has a cool lowercase g
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/typotheque/jigsaw_solid_bundle/

[Member MHS…]

May I say the best g ever is Baskerville's? (and some of the worst are Benguiat's).

[Member Ste…]

Oh yes. Good call on Ambroise.

[Member Bal…]

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

[Member MHS…]

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.

[Member chu…]

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.

[Member plu…]

Does anyone want to give a try to the "g" I posted at the ID Type Pop Quiz?

[Member jup…]

^ is that a tag font?

Gs from the first font I ever purchased.

[Member Gra…]

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

[Member dom…]

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/?...

[Member Man…]

Galliard Italic

[Member Nic…]

Here are some I prepared earlier:

Nick Cooke

[Member Art…]

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.

[Member Ste…]

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.

[Member Jon…]

Adding to the Matthew Carter love, here's Alisal:

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/creative_alliance/alisal/?sample...