Queen Mab

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Balanced Rating: 7.42
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by bent hamm

See also Queen Mab CE by estrella1974, Queen Mab Small Caps by bent hamm.

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Taking advantage of the advanced ratio controls, this is a slightly more open serif typeface. This is one step closer to my goal of making a legible text face in FontStruct. Oldstyle figures.
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Created on 3rd April 2008. Last edited on 22nd June 2009.
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Creative Commons
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- Serif
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14 Comments

It's brilliant, i like it a lot! But why did you go with lowercase forms on the uppercase M and N? Also, the ring on “å” is a bit too big.

Comment by Kottis 6th april 2008

Thanks! It took some playing around but I finally managed to get a more uppercase form for M and N. I'm still fond of the the err... unicase versions so I threw them in before the f-ligatures. Bear with me, it's a work in progress.

I'm totally digging the crit, by the way, keep 'em coming.

Comment by bent hamm 6th april 2008

I tried setting some text and played around a bit, it works really well. It's got surprisingly even color considering the limitations, and it's definitively legible. Keep up the good work!

Comment by Kottis 6th april 2008

You should enter this in this week's Type Battle on Typophile!

Comment by Stephen Coles (Stewf) 8th april 2008

Man...This is cool. An instant classic !

Comment by grant 10th april 2008

An original and working serif design - AND a large character set! A perfect 10 :)

Comment by Roger S. Nelsson 10th april 2008

You guys are gonna make me blush.

Comment by bent hamm 12th april 2008

So cool that you named this font creation "Queen Mab"!! I actually recognized the reference - stumbled on it while re-reading Shakespeare last week! What inspired the naming convention? Nice job, btw!

Comment by kagnie 13th april 2008

Oh it's probably my favorite passage from R&J. Since it's about a tiny fairy queen, I thought it applied well to the tiny pixel-based nature of this fontstruction.

Comment by bent hamm 13th april 2008