DG Serif Display - Serif, Old School, Display

DG Serif Display is a serif, old school and display typeface, inspired by the works of Heison1, Heison 2 and Heison3. This is a serif (or display) style for the other typefaces. In an attempt at getting that typical sophisated look, the letters have been provided with a stylish mixture of various different designed Serif and Old School attributes.

[ PHASE ONE: EARLY DEVELOPMENT ]

Initially I started out with a mixed bag of different geometric letter styles for different characters. Several rounded and angular styled templates were included at its early dev stage to provide me with multiple ideas at first.

Many of the characters had multiple varying forms included that purposely had been drawn slight differently so that they provide several conceptual templates of differing stylistic approaches for the font's global letter geometry.

When this rough idea for the full (A-Z) alphabet was completed and the different conceptual variations for the letters had all been included, I did perform some additional testing of its text rendering for each of the stylistic templates in order to assess them more thoroughly and further judge to determine on which style provides the most plasing looking results.

[ PHASE TWO: UNIFICATION ]

For each of the angular letter components I decided to implement the slant-based stroke geometry as opposed to curvaceous letter components. In my opinion this type of stroke modulation, the abundance of straight lines, somewhat ‘squarish’ shaped rounded letterforms. All of these have pushed the design more towards this distinctly ‘geometric’-natured oddity.

Numerous modifications had been made in an attempt to further polish the font. Many are pretty small changes, whereas some considerably more sizable and even some complete renewed overhauls.

For example, lowercase letter (k) was the last remaining letter that had not yet been transitioned into its definitive matching style of the font's default concept.

It now has a fully redesigned form that replaces the old version's ‘roundish’-geometry of its arm and leg, The new version features the ‘slant’- based geometric style that I settled with earlier.After this change was made it now finally has everything tied together into this single stylistic format, and can now finally fully contribute to a more cohensive unification of the character set and overall design's visual identity. Further improvements to its aesthetic uniformity such as metrics, optical performance and optimization will be made at a later stage of development.

[ PHASE THREE: BULKING UP THE PACKAGE ]

Another change that took place in the latest update concerns the “flat-foot” unbracketed serifs for lowercase letters a, b, d and u that had been replaced with more ‘decorative’- looking curved tails.

Additional glyph alternative forms such as ‘single’- and ‘double’-storey lowercase letters (as well as many more) were included as well.

[ PHASE FOUR: EXPANSION OF TYPOGRAPHIC DEPTH & NAUNCE ]

Several different approaches for the terminals and stroke endings have also been designed to experiment with. These can still be seen as letter components in the “Private Use Area” Unicode block.

I hape you like it so far, Cheers