I'm impressed by extremely difficult challenge here. I wonder what C-Munk, our specialist of impossible tasks would think of it. Sure with no horizontals at all, many ambiguities resist and some glyphs need a hard brain effort for read but i think it would be really difficult to go closer than you did with such a minimalistic concept.
Neurone error, you have no idea how much it means to me to be referred to as a "specialist of impossible tasks".
In the capitals I see that the M, O and W are excactly the same. You could make a "hole" in the O and take a little off the bottom of the middle line of the W. That should solve it.
The lower case has a few of the same as well. You could let the s decend a bit - like a greek final sigma - to differentiate it from the c.
The o, v and u are also the same. Maybe you could do like the n, but upside down and mirrored for v and u.
Maybe make the z a backwards c so it doesn't look like an x.
Oh, and I just realise now that the g, q and y are copies as well. I can't find an easy solution to that right away, but it should be doable.
But there are a lot of good solutions as well. I particularly like the Q, R, S, X, Y, Z, a, e, x.
Hi there, thanks a lot for your comments. I really appreciate it.
I think Vertical Velocity was one of the first fonts I made (or actually was trying to make) on Fontstruct. Although I was trying to be as minimalist as possible, my starting point wasn't really original. The famous French typographer Pierre di Sciullo already did a bitmap font (Minimum) in 80's with the similar concept. His font family was more professional and bigger but I was inspired with his ideas when I was trying to design this font.
Some of the glyphs definitely need the improvement as you both mentioned. I made this font but put aside and didn't touch it further. I guess it's time to deal with it and work bit more :). Thanks for your guidelines, I'll keep those in mind and try to develop this font. Cheers
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In the capitals I see that the M, O and W are excactly the same. You could make a "hole" in the O and take a little off the bottom of the middle line of the W. That should solve it.
The lower case has a few of the same as well. You could let the s decend a bit - like a greek final sigma - to differentiate it from the c.
The o, v and u are also the same. Maybe you could do like the n, but upside down and mirrored for v and u.
Maybe make the z a backwards c so it doesn't look like an x.
Oh, and I just realise now that the g, q and y are copies as well. I can't find an easy solution to that right away, but it should be doable.
But there are a lot of good solutions as well. I particularly like the Q, R, S, X, Y, Z, a, e, x.
I think Vertical Velocity was one of the first fonts I made (or actually was trying to make) on Fontstruct. Although I was trying to be as minimalist as possible, my starting point wasn't really original. The famous French typographer Pierre di Sciullo already did a bitmap font (Minimum) in 80's with the similar concept. His font family was more professional and bigger but I was inspired with his ideas when I was trying to design this font.
Some of the glyphs definitely need the improvement as you both mentioned. I made this font but put aside and didn't touch it further. I guess it's time to deal with it and work bit more :). Thanks for your guidelines, I'll keep those in mind and try to develop this font. Cheers
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