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wildlogic | 5 months ago

Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.

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tobr|4 months ago

You’ve picked a difficult way to make your first typeface. A monoline design with a strict vector grid doesn’t leave a lot of room for the kind of optical adjustments needed for balanced and readable letter shapes. But I think even if you want to be strict about those restrictions there is a lot of room for improvement in consistency and composition of each shape.

I started to write actionable suggestions about individual letters but realized it’s probably better to drop this link, which starts at how to draw an ”A” and continues with every letter of the alphabet. https://ohnotype.co/blog/ohno-type-school-a

whiterook6|5 months ago

It's very nice, but why? The lack of descenders makes it slightly harder to read. More of the letters look the same.

kiba|4 months ago

It's perfect for my use case, which is making individual square letters to print. PITA to ensure that the square are uniform when the letters are not uniform in size.

rvschuilenburg|4 months ago

Aesthetically, great. But i can't help but find it harder to read this font. Probably cool for things such as a poster or album art, but not something i'd enjoy using in my code editor.

egorfine|4 months ago

Lowercase f, l and t are crimes against humanity.

sph|4 months ago

Please add a github release with the assets (ttf, otf, etc.). I'm developing an open-source font repository+downloader and it will make it easier to write an install script for it.

p0w3n3d|4 months ago

Great job! I've tried many times to design a font and failed.

That said, here's some: I'd love to see multiple weights. Not just bold, the new fonts can have multiple weights. Italic could help also but with the letters staying in the box. Also, the letters are too much to the left to my liking. Large amount of space between letters makes it even more visible.

networked|4 months ago

Cool concept. I like the lowercase q a lot. The misaligned dot (tittle) on the lowercase i and j bugs me. It feels off to have it at different heights. I'd try making the i taller to match the j.

camtarn|4 months ago

No descenders - fine. But I find the lowercase L, and to a lesser extent the lowercase F, very unpleasant looking. Something to do with the overly intrusive and segmented curve.

billev2k|4 months ago

I'd prefer a greater difference between ( ) and { }, and between : and ;

But that's for using it as my daily driver, which doesn't seem to be the actual motivation.

tomashubelbauer|4 months ago

I really like the look of the font, great job!

ginko|4 months ago

The vertical lines look a bit thin on my ~110PPI screen. Especially the down line in lowercase 'p'.

JSR_FDED|5 months ago

Love how legible this is. Exactly how my brain (trained on 8-bit micros) expects a font to look!

nullchan|4 months ago

Did you ask Claude to make your design futuristic? I sometimes get the same layout haha.

Terretta|4 months ago

I find it legible except for y becoming u

jen729w|4 months ago

Amazing effort for a first font. I probably won't use it, but who cares! It's cool.

Do more fonts. Do more things. I thank you.

specialist|4 months ago

I hate myself for loving Retrocide so much. Well done.