Info: Created on 2nd March 2010 . Last edited on 4th March 2010.
No, This is not the Sample.
Sample will be uploaded soon.
nice entry. the slick smoothness of your work belies the challenges in successfully creating an italics font in Fonstruct. congrats.
Hehe... and so the Fun Banter Begins!
I admire the strength and simplicity of these glyphs. The lack of optical correction brings tension to glyphs containing diagonal stroke prior to italicization. But they lean out of line a lot less than other italic jobs I have seen here :) And I think they turned in some of your coolest characters!
Try narrowing the c a little bit. Oh, and I don’t think you need to include SportsComp in the name of the font, just the tags.
I really dig the little corner detail defining the D. Did I miss that at first, or is it a new addition? In any case, I wanted to suggest you try cutting some of this font’s ‘square’ corners just like that. Particularly these obtuse ones like in the D (though you could try both), and even more specifically the ones on the top left of certain lowercase characters (c, e, o, m, n, etc.).
If you like the idea, if it’s really as slick and contemporary as I imagine, please try it on a clone (of course if you haven’t already). TheItalicJob has a great voice and needs very little tuning as it is.
This design feels so timeless and solid. I look at your sample and feel like I am about to experience a classy commercial selling the Swiss version of a sports watch. Perhaps I am responding in part to the word “Synchronized” (funny that you chose this over “Speed Skating”, though I see why you wanted to included y). Still, I notice throughout this palpable measured regularity. It’s a precisely engineered, if coldly calculated, quality as if this were designed by metronome.
Kudos on the impressive consistency and usability!
Thanks Frodo7 and Will.i for these kind words!
@Will.i: the reason I have "SportsComp." on the name is because I had released a font with that same name a while back, at the time I wasn't sure about the result so I turned it private again. Since this is a diferent font, to avoid confusion I added "SportsComp." to the name. It's funny you say stuff like cutting the square corners cause I tried that with the older font :) Maybe I'll try it on this one when the competition is over.
A really dynamic piece of work jm.
I think I cut my finger on this!
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