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		<title>Metamorphosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 06:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="Signer textface letters" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface.jpg 1876w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface-768x567.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface-1536x1135.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1876px) 100vw, 1876px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>ne</span> of the most difficult tasks any type designer has to deal with, for one reason or another, is deriving different weights for a type family. In my particular world of type design, it's usually a matter of taking my original designs, which are often extremely thin and detailed, and creating a typeface for smaller reading sizes.

I’ve always envied the type designers out there in the professional type design world who seem to just use some sophisticated technical systems and programs to do it. That may be, or rather, it is most likely a mistake to think so. For me personally, however, it’s tough stuff. I would go so far as to say that it’s like designing a completely new font – again.

<blockquote>I would go so far as to say that it’s like designing a completely new font – again.</blockquote>

The first difficulty I run into is the large amount of time that has passed, in most cases, between the time I created the first version and the time I decide to go with the text variant. It’s incredibly difficult to dive back into an original idea you may have had years ago. It takes quite a while to understand its specificity, its inner character. Although it may seem from the outside that my designs all have a kind of <a href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/2018/12/is-it-good-to-have-a-handwriting/">#handwriting</a>, a similar <em>touch</em>, that’s not the case for me. Even if I start switching from one typeface to another only after I’ve been working on it for a while, when I take a quick look around, say after a week has passed, the older typeface has already become “strange” to me, a kind of foreign body. This is because really every single font has its own personal character, like a child that has grown up under your careful observation. It has its own way of being, reacting, getting into a flow between individual letters, and so on. Axes have a slightly different inclination. All these details, which we hardly notice consciously, adjust instinctively over time. I say unconsciously: at least that’s how I feel.

Speaking of details. It’s mostly these that make it a whole new task. We can start with some font program automatism as deriving mechanically weights. First of all, if we want to make a typeface with more weight that is easy to read at smaller sizes, it needs to be larger in rhythm and bolder in stems, but not uniform. I usually give much more weight to the horizontal direction than the vertical. This is because most letters have their hairlines on the horizontal axis. <span class="author">FontLab</span> does this with what are called <em>Actions</em> that you can apply to the whole character. In a second step (which is a bit annoying), you need to fix all the rotten connections between the lines that merge into stems, etc. 

If you are creating a text face from an existing font, you may also want it to retain some features of the original. You can’t do this 1:1. Some details have to be lost as the stems get bolder and they no longer make sense or would disappear at a smaller scale anyway, others have to be exaggerated for the same reason so they still stand out.

It’s funny, but some of the idiosyncrasies of an original character you don't get to know until you try to create a new variation of them. It’s like leaving a person for a while and then returning to them to discover their peculiarities in behavior, their hidden weird little edges that you may not have noticed the first time around, or only noticed at first glance and then forgot to see them after you dived deeper into their personality.

<blockquote>In a word, what we are trying to do when we create a new weight is a kind of metamorphosis in progress.</blockquote>

In a word, what we are trying to do when we create a new weight is a kind of metamorphosis in progress. Partly controlled with the help of the techniques of type programs, partly unconscious, instinctive, as we begin anew to draw lines, curves and details. I’m usually fully aware that this task will take me a very very long time, although admittedly I cheat myself every time by telling myself, come on, it already exists, it can’t be that hard to make a version for smaller sizes! Yeah, if I didn’t do that, I probably wouldn’t even start. Because there’s still a long way to go, a kind of journey that will take us to places we might not expect at the beginning. In the end, it is also we who will be transformed. Both the designer and the creation go through this magical metamorphosis.

Above, some of the “new” <em>Signer</em> textface letters in their infancy. I promise to try to go deeper into the details of the working process in the next posts.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Cecil Beaton</span> | Photography
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="Signer textface letters" decoding="async" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface.jpg 1876w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface-768x567.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cecil-beaton-signer-textface-1536x1135.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1876px) 100vw, 1876px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>ne</span> of the most difficult tasks any type designer has to deal with, for one reason or another, is deriving different weights for a type family. In my particular world of type design, it's usually a matter of taking my original designs, which are often extremely thin and detailed, and creating a typeface for smaller reading sizes.

I’ve always envied the type designers out there in the professional type design world who seem to just use some sophisticated technical systems and programs to do it. That may be, or rather, it is most likely a mistake to think so. For me personally, however, it’s tough stuff. I would go so far as to say that it’s like designing a completely new font – again.

<blockquote>I would go so far as to say that it’s like designing a completely new font – again.</blockquote>

The first difficulty I run into is the large amount of time that has passed, in most cases, between the time I created the first version and the time I decide to go with the text variant. It’s incredibly difficult to dive back into an original idea you may have had years ago. It takes quite a while to understand its specificity, its inner character. Although it may seem from the outside that my designs all have a kind of <a href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/2018/12/is-it-good-to-have-a-handwriting/">#handwriting</a>, a similar <em>touch</em>, that’s not the case for me. Even if I start switching from one typeface to another only after I’ve been working on it for a while, when I take a quick look around, say after a week has passed, the older typeface has already become “strange” to me, a kind of foreign body. This is because really every single font has its own personal character, like a child that has grown up under your careful observation. It has its own way of being, reacting, getting into a flow between individual letters, and so on. Axes have a slightly different inclination. All these details, which we hardly notice consciously, adjust instinctively over time. I say unconsciously: at least that’s how I feel.

Speaking of details. It’s mostly these that make it a whole new task. We can start with some font program automatism as deriving mechanically weights. First of all, if we want to make a typeface with more weight that is easy to read at smaller sizes, it needs to be larger in rhythm and bolder in stems, but not uniform. I usually give much more weight to the horizontal direction than the vertical. This is because most letters have their hairlines on the horizontal axis. <span class="author">FontLab</span> does this with what are called <em>Actions</em> that you can apply to the whole character. In a second step (which is a bit annoying), you need to fix all the rotten connections between the lines that merge into stems, etc. 

If you are creating a text face from an existing font, you may also want it to retain some features of the original. You can’t do this 1:1. Some details have to be lost as the stems get bolder and they no longer make sense or would disappear at a smaller scale anyway, others have to be exaggerated for the same reason so they still stand out.

It’s funny, but some of the idiosyncrasies of an original character you don't get to know until you try to create a new variation of them. It’s like leaving a person for a while and then returning to them to discover their peculiarities in behavior, their hidden weird little edges that you may not have noticed the first time around, or only noticed at first glance and then forgot to see them after you dived deeper into their personality.

<blockquote>In a word, what we are trying to do when we create a new weight is a kind of metamorphosis in progress.</blockquote>

In a word, what we are trying to do when we create a new weight is a kind of metamorphosis in progress. Partly controlled with the help of the techniques of type programs, partly unconscious, instinctive, as we begin anew to draw lines, curves and details. I’m usually fully aware that this task will take me a very very long time, although admittedly I cheat myself every time by telling myself, come on, it already exists, it can’t be that hard to make a version for smaller sizes! Yeah, if I didn’t do that, I probably wouldn’t even start. Because there’s still a long way to go, a kind of journey that will take us to places we might not expect at the beginning. In the end, it is also we who will be transformed. Both the designer and the creation go through this magical metamorphosis.

Above, some of the “new” <em>Signer</em> textface letters in their infancy. I promise to try to go deeper into the details of the working process in the next posts.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Cecil Beaton</span> | Photography
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		<title>Ultrafine Ravish Numbers Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1.jpg 2362w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1-768x491.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1-2048x1310.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2362px) 100vw, 2362px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">S</span>ometimes</span> it needs a little input to turn back to work on a character we did in the past. I owe this one to a very special person. These ultrafine numbers belong to a typeface which is called <em>Ravish</em>. I did a series of different weights varying also between rhythm and letter widths. It has a slight remembrance of characters such as <em>Helvetica</em>, yet is meant to add some special elegant detail. Most of its letters have unclosed lines. 

Beautiful <span class="author">Gemma Ward</span> photographed by french photographer <span class="author">Patrick Demarchelier</span> inspired me during the work process. Special difficulties arise on such very fine letters where it comes to form conjunctions as here in the ‘<em>2</em>’. Detailed <em>Bézier</em> curves were introduced to keep the transition between its upper bowl and the diagonal downstroke smoother.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Patrick Demarchelier</span> | Photography]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1.jpg 2362w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1-768x491.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/working-on-ravish-ultrafine-1-1-2048x1310.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2362px) 100vw, 2362px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">S</span>ometimes</span> it needs a little input to turn back to work on a character we did in the past. I owe this one to a very special person. These ultrafine numbers belong to a typeface which is called <em>Ravish</em>. I did a series of different weights varying also between rhythm and letter widths. It has a slight remembrance of characters such as <em>Helvetica</em>, yet is meant to add some special elegant detail. Most of its letters have unclosed lines. 

Beautiful <span class="author">Gemma Ward</span> photographed by french photographer <span class="author">Patrick Demarchelier</span> inspired me during the work process. Special difficulties arise on such very fine letters where it comes to form conjunctions as here in the ‘<em>2</em>’. Detailed <em>Bézier</em> curves were introduced to keep the transition between its upper bowl and the diagonal downstroke smoother.

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<span class="author">Patrick Demarchelier</span> | Photography]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Strom der Entwicklung</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wenn ich ein Buch aufschlage, das über die unendlich lang scheinende Geschichte der Druckschriften berichtet,...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">W</span>enn</span> ich ein Buch aufschlage, das über die unendlich lang scheinende Geschichte der Druckschriften berichtet, so erfasst mich wie ein Schauer, welchen Wandlungen diese Geschichte unterworfen ist. Der Wechsel der Standpunkte, ihrer Menschen und ihrer Ergebnisse. Und es gelingt mir nicht ein präzises Bild davon in Worte zu fassen, wenn nicht das von Wellen, ihrem auf und ab, dem Aufschlagen von Gischt an den Felsen einer Küste oder dem Abflauen in ruhiger See. Auch ich habe die Gewissheit, dass schon in meinem kurzen Leben eine Phase dieser geschichtlichen Veränderung auf und ab gegangen ist. Die weißen Schaumkronen im Aufkommen der digitalen Schriften und der hitzigen Diskussionen um sie sind verschwunden, ruhig aufgenommen im ruhigen Ab- und Zufluss der Geschichte der Buchstaben.</p>
<blockquote><p>Und doch erkenne ich in der Ferne, dass ich dabei auch der Beobachter meines eigenen Lebens bin, und ich frage mich, ob das Schlagen und Beruhigen der Wellen, der sanft auf ein bestimmtes Ziel zufließende Strom, nicht doch nur der Strom meiner eigenen Entwicklung ist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ich erinnere mich noch an die Zeit vor dem vehementen Ausbruchs der <em>völligen digitalen Periode</em>. Meine ersten Buchstaben, deren Nachahmung ich anstrebte, waren die einer <em>Garamond</em>-Kursiv eines Paris-Bildbandes aus den Bücherregalen meines Zuhauses. Nicht dass mich dessen Bilder überhaupt nicht interessierten, wichtiger aber waren mir die kleinen schwarzen Zeichen. Ich erkannte in ihnen die schwungvollen Rundungen, die etwas von der Form eines Frauenbeins besaßen oder den Kurven eines Rockes der im Wind flattert. Auf den großen weißen Seiten auf dem matt bestrichenen Papier waren sie majestätisch anzusehen. Die Kapitel dieses Buches hatten zu Anfangs nur diese weißen Seiten mit ein oder zwei Wörtern darauf. Denn der schönste Buchstabe kann nicht zur Entfaltung kommen ohne den Weißraum um ihn herum!</p>
<p>Die Buchstaben hatten für mich etwas Ewiges. Sie waren schließlich <em>gedruckt</em>. Die Schwierigkeit, die es darstellte, sie aus dem weißen Papier zu entheben und sie für meine Zwecke zu verwenden war reizvoll. Vielleicht hatte es auch etwas von einem Diebstahl: wie jemand der sich, mit der Fackel in der Hand, in eine heilige Grabkammer schleicht um das kostbarste zu entwenden. Wie konnte man einen gedruckten Buchstaben entwenden? So schleppte ich dieses überdimensionale, übrigens durchaus darüber hinaus nicht besonders kostbare Werk in die Reproduktionskammer der Universität. Ich machte Photos von Buchstaben. Das war ein köstlicher Akt. Die ribbeligen Kanten der vergrößerten Gebilde verliehen dem „Diebstahl“ erst ihre Würze! Das photographische Papier war elfenbeinfarbig, das Schwarz tief.</p>
<p>Ich hatte die Idee, aus dieser Schrift ein Wort zu setzen. <em>se Vouer</em> sollte der Titel einiger Seiten eines gedachten Modemagazins sein. Hinter dem ‘<em>V</em>’ gab es einen größeren Abstand, der Buchstabe war kaum unterschnitten, wie es damals in vielen Bleisatz-Versionen dieses Schriftklassikers der Fall war. Ich glaube diese Buchstabenkombination hat mich bleibend geprägt. Ich habe mir große Mühe gegeben, den Abstand in meinem Wort exakt so wiederzugeben wie ich ihn im Original vorfand. Denn es erschien mir fast ein Frevel dieses kleine geneigte ‘<em>o</em>’ so unter den Ast des ‘<em>V</em>’s zu klemmen, wie es heute leider nicht mehr anders anzutreffen ist. Mein kleines Wort hatte „Luft zu atmen“, königlich wie das zart und elegant auslaufende ‘<em>V</em>’, – dieser symbolträchtige Letter, wie ich Jahre später bestätigt wissen sollte! – den Raum einnahm. Die schmale Zeichnung der Buchstabenkörper war im übrigen akzentuiert durch einen großzügigen Rhythmus, jeder Letter hatte seinen gebührlichen Raum ohne aber gesperrt zu wirken, wie die Typographen sagen, das bedeutet ohne den zusätzlich zwischen den Lettern zugefügten Zwischenraum. Ich fühlte mich in meinem Vorhaben mehr als bestätigt. Dieses Wort war wunderschön, es hatte meine Erwartungen nicht enttäuscht. Es war etwas ganz besonderes, meine Liebe zu den eleganten Buchstaben war entflammt. In der Mitte einer weißen Seite, wieder im ganzen reproduziert auf dem photographischen Papier wirkte es herrlich! Das war mein erstes Abenteuer und ich muss sagen, dass bis heute die kursiven Schriften eine große Anziehungskraft auf mich ausüben. Dabei eine <em>Garamond</em> als erstes Modell zu haben war sicherlich ein guter Beginn.</p>
<p>Schon bald bemerkte ich, dass eine schöne Frau auf einem Bild, ein schönes Kleid, zusammen mit meinen Buchstaben eine schöne Einheit hervorzurufen vermochten.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ben presto mi resi conto che una bella donna con un vestito splendido poteva formare un insieme armonioso con le mie lettere.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mit den Jahren verliert man leider etwas von der Ehrfurcht, mit der ich damals vor einem Werbeplakat, vielleicht in Schwarz-Weiß, stehen konnte, das eine wunderschöne Frau zeigte, deren Profil mit den weißen Linien der negativ eingespiegelten Buchstaben die Töne des Papiers in ein sanftes Wechselspiel tauchte. Was mir heute als allzu selbstverständlich erscheint war damals noch das unerhörte Treffen zweier unterschiedlicher Ebenen, die vor meinen Augen zu einem Bild verschmolzen. Das Abbild der Natur (in seiner nobelsten und feinsten Ausprägung!) zusammen mit den gezeichneten Kanten und Kurven, die die Buchstaben hervorrufen. Ich war noch weit davon entfernt zu verstehen, wer diesen Buchstaben gezeichnet hatte, wie er entworfen wurde. Ich fand mich damit ab – wie übrigens wohl die meisten Menschen –, dass er einfach da war. Seine selbstverständliche Gültigkeit in genau dieser Form und in keiner anderen war atemberaubend. Ich ging herum, oder fuhr mit dem Fahrrad durch Paris, und was ich machte, waren Photos von Photos mit Buchstaben! Es erschien mir und erscheint mir heute noch als eine höhere Ebene, das Bild mit der Schrift vereinigt zu sehen. Jede Art von Dreidimensionalität erschien mir überflüssig, ja sogar entwertend. Jeder Buchstabe ist ein zweidimensionales Gebilde, ein Nicht-Gegenstand, eine positiv oder negativ herausgeschnittene, gelöste Form. Bis heute habe ich eine ganz natürliche Abneigung dagegen, sie mit einer Farbe auszustatten. Ein Buchstabe ist weiß oder schwarz.</p>
<blockquote><p>Per me una lettera è piuttosto la negazione della terza dimensione, è la forma di un pensiero, di una passione, senza colore, senza profondità in senso materiale. Ho una certa riluttanza, che mi sembra naturale, a darle colore. Una lettera è o bianca o nera.</p></blockquote>
<p>Es scheint mir fast so, als ob die weißen Buchstaben in einem Bild, es aus dem einfachen Verhältnis von Format zum Inhalt befreien. Die Photographie an sich ist das Abbild einer <em>empfundenen</em> Realität, doch es bleibt durch seine Ränder immer noch greifbar, ist ein Objekt. Erst die noblen Lettern die ihre Formen teilen entheben es seiner einfachen Dimension. Das Auge vermag immer wieder vom Inhalt des Bildes zurückkehren auf die Formen der Lettern, wird zerstreut und kann so vergessen, dass es sich nur um eine Photographie handelt. Die Gedanken und Gefühle des Photographen entheben sich Ihrer ‘Objekt’ivität, die beiden Ebenen verschmelzen zu einem Ausdruck der Phantasie, unverrückbar manifestiert in den Tönen des Papiers und doch flatterhaft wie die Phantasie selbst. Die Buchstaben sind das fehlende Glied zu einem dreigeteilten Spiel: Objekt, Ewigkeit und Betrachter.</p>
<blockquote><p>Il profilo della donna affondava naturalmente nei toni grigi della carta stampata. Le lettere aggiungevano eternità. E così la coppia ha lasciato che l’osservatore potesse unirsi a loro.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Memoir Spacing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Experimental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typeface Design]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png 1643w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-768x510.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-300x200.png 300w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-400x265.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1643px) 100vw, 1643px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span></span> very demanding task, vital for the success of a typeface is that of finding the right <em>spaces</em> for each singular letter. As one can easily imagine the number of possible combinations even in a Roman alphabet is very high. But, what may seem frightening to someone making a quick calculation of that number is quite a daily business for a type designer. For the simple reason that he has got used to it and of course over the time found his methods to deal with it.

There are indeed several good methods for this challenge that didn’t change so much over the centuries of making typefaces, I guess. One of them is doubling letters to pairs or creating even higher numbers of copies and put them side by side. I remember the first time seeing something like that in an old book about <span class="author">Frederic W. Goudy</span>, the famous American type designer and printer in the first decades of the past century. He used to print testing sheets of his metal casted letters into large rows of duplicate letters.

Doing so, in the first line, does give the type designer an idea of the general room (neglecting left or right side distances) each letter has been given. On the hand this is to avoid a too deep color caused by letters tightened too much, on the other it gives us a more precise control over the inner and outer rhythm of straight lines. In an ideal, admittedly a little too rigorous sense, distances between the two (or three) vertical lines within a letter image should be the same as the one between the last one of one letters and the starting one of its succeeding colleague (remember: for all possible combinations!). By putting, initially, the <em>same</em> letter in a row (at least, two of them) and glancing over them it is easier to detect eventual rhythm mistakes.

Having done so and given that the type designer knowing well his creation and therefor being able to center each individual letter image between its (invisible) borders he may then compare rows of different letters among each other. To settle if certain letter designs lack of sufficient space on left and right side or are set up to tight.

The next step is that of comparing more thoroughly typical letter combinations or the ones that each designer depending on his individual style and preference (of course being related to his mother language, but this would fill another essay much longer than this one). In my eyes it is also important to concentrate with this on pairings that one particularly is being fond of. What may sound kind of funny, is a design truth for my opinion. Because having fun with this work or let’s even say to fall kind in love with letter pairings and combinations is part of the success story of a typeface. For the creation process is far less theoretic or mathematic as one may suppose. Simply for the fact that it takes long time, asks a lot of patience of the craftsman or a digital designer and in the end is a matter of heart. This is when inspiration comes into the game. And changing it.

Personally I try to melt the glyph design process and the letter spacing to one continuous process. Like here in the <em>Memoir</em> ‘<em>sa</em>’ combination I also correct the <span class="author">Béziers</span> many times after the first sketches to accord letters’ rhythm between each other. I try to intuit a certain flow that is able to chain the letter images together. In a way that also lines that <em>cross</em> the general rhythm of a typeface maybe be more easily handled by the human eye to fit into it. It is hard to exactly describe what this means but certainly it is also a matter of the (invisible) white spaces that place between two letters.

If you are working on a digital <em>Metrics</em> window you may also add and delete characters, go back and forth doing so to trick the eye a little and try to intuit what happens when they change places. Close the eye a little and concentrate on vertical rhythm only regardless of which letter the consisting straight line are being part of.

To be honest, in my eyes, it is kind of a fifty-fifty game. Learn about the methods and get used to them but also trust blindly in your own feelings. In the end we are not talking about reason here, we gain to achieve <em>beauty</em>.


<blockquote>(…) vedevo emergere un ovale bianco, degli occhi neri, degli occhi verdi, non sapevo se fossero gli stessi che mi avevano già deliziato un momento prima, non potevo metterli in rapporto con una data fanciulla ch’io avessi separata dalle altre e riconosciuta. E quest’assenza, nella mia visione, del distacco che avrei presto stabilito fra loro, propagava attraverso il gruppo un ondeggiamento armonioso, la traslazione continua di una bellezza fluida, collettiva e mobile.</blockquote>
<span class="author" style="color: #000; float: right;"><span class="long_slash">–</span> Marcel Proust, <span class="fountain"><em>All’ombra delle fanciulle in fiore</em></span><br>&nbsp;<br><br>&nbsp;<br>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1.png 1643w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-768x510.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-300x200.png 300w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Memoir-spacing-1-1-400x265.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1643px) 100vw, 1643px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span></span> very demanding task, vital for the success of a typeface is that of finding the right <em>spaces</em> for each singular letter. As one can easily imagine the number of possible combinations even in a Roman alphabet is very high. But, what may seem frightening to someone making a quick calculation of that number is quite a daily business for a type designer. For the simple reason that he has got used to it and of course over the time found his methods to deal with it.

There are indeed several good methods for this challenge that didn’t change so much over the centuries of making typefaces, I guess. One of them is doubling letters to pairs or creating even higher numbers of copies and put them side by side. I remember the first time seeing something like that in an old book about <span class="author">Frederic W. Goudy</span>, the famous American type designer and printer in the first decades of the past century. He used to print testing sheets of his metal casted letters into large rows of duplicate letters.

Doing so, in the first line, does give the type designer an idea of the general room (neglecting left or right side distances) each letter has been given. On the hand this is to avoid a too deep color caused by letters tightened too much, on the other it gives us a more precise control over the inner and outer rhythm of straight lines. In an ideal, admittedly a little too rigorous sense, distances between the two (or three) vertical lines within a letter image should be the same as the one between the last one of one letters and the starting one of its succeeding colleague (remember: for all possible combinations!). By putting, initially, the <em>same</em> letter in a row (at least, two of them) and glancing over them it is easier to detect eventual rhythm mistakes.

Having done so and given that the type designer knowing well his creation and therefor being able to center each individual letter image between its (invisible) borders he may then compare rows of different letters among each other. To settle if certain letter designs lack of sufficient space on left and right side or are set up to tight.

The next step is that of comparing more thoroughly typical letter combinations or the ones that each designer depending on his individual style and preference (of course being related to his mother language, but this would fill another essay much longer than this one). In my eyes it is also important to concentrate with this on pairings that one particularly is being fond of. What may sound kind of funny, is a design truth for my opinion. Because having fun with this work or let’s even say to fall kind in love with letter pairings and combinations is part of the success story of a typeface. For the creation process is far less theoretic or mathematic as one may suppose. Simply for the fact that it takes long time, asks a lot of patience of the craftsman or a digital designer and in the end is a matter of heart. This is when inspiration comes into the game. And changing it.

Personally I try to melt the glyph design process and the letter spacing to one continuous process. Like here in the <em>Memoir</em> ‘<em>sa</em>’ combination I also correct the <span class="author">Béziers</span> many times after the first sketches to accord letters’ rhythm between each other. I try to intuit a certain flow that is able to chain the letter images together. In a way that also lines that <em>cross</em> the general rhythm of a typeface maybe be more easily handled by the human eye to fit into it. It is hard to exactly describe what this means but certainly it is also a matter of the (invisible) white spaces that place between two letters.

If you are working on a digital <em>Metrics</em> window you may also add and delete characters, go back and forth doing so to trick the eye a little and try to intuit what happens when they change places. Close the eye a little and concentrate on vertical rhythm only regardless of which letter the consisting straight line are being part of.

To be honest, in my eyes, it is kind of a fifty-fifty game. Learn about the methods and get used to them but also trust blindly in your own feelings. In the end we are not talking about reason here, we gain to achieve <em>beauty</em>.


<blockquote>(…) vedevo emergere un ovale bianco, degli occhi neri, degli occhi verdi, non sapevo se fossero gli stessi che mi avevano già deliziato un momento prima, non potevo metterli in rapporto con una data fanciulla ch’io avessi separata dalle altre e riconosciuta. E quest’assenza, nella mia visione, del distacco che avrei presto stabilito fra loro, propagava attraverso il gruppo un ondeggiamento armonioso, la traslazione continua di una bellezza fluida, collettiva e mobile.</blockquote>
<span class="author" style="color: #000; float: right;"><span class="long_slash">–</span> Marcel Proust, <span class="fountain"><em>All’ombra delle fanciulle in fiore</em></span><br>&nbsp;<br><br>&nbsp;<br>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Arbeit an Kapitälchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2018 09:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Character]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bei der Zeichnung der Kapitälchen scheint es mir wichtig, dass die neuen kleinen Kapitalen nicht...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">B</span>ei</span> der Zeichnung der Kapitälchen scheint es mir wichtig, dass die neuen kleinen Kapitalen nicht einfach nur verkleinerte Großbuchstaben sind.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mehr als aber nur Proportionen und Stärkenverhältnisse der Linien, meine ich damit, dass man ihnen etwas auf den Weg geben muss, was sie zu eigenständigen neuen Buchstaben macht.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Webfont Rendering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Text-original-100-4.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Text-original-100-4.png 1320w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Text-original-100-4-768x454.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span>s</span> I was recently working on my typeface called <em>Advanced</em> in text size version for use on <a href="https://www.stefanseifert.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>www.stefanseifert.com</em></a> I encountered a strange phenomena on <span class="author">Safari</span> browser what concerned its rendering on monitor. I was occupied with defining spaces when I observed that some letter combinations had awkward distances while being rendered not even in too small pixel sizes. Overall, the impression of text seemed to be a little messy. Here are some screenshots.

If we take a look, as an example, on the pair ‘<em>es</em>’ in two different lines (highlighted on the first picture) it jumps to the eye that the letter ‘<em>s</em>’ of the first pair seems to be strangely shifted to the right leaving by far too much space to preceding ‘<em>e</em>’ and being attached almost to the ‘<em>e</em>’ which is following. At the same time, yet, I liked the spacing in the same letter combination on the line right below. Without any <em>kerning</em> means the pair ‘<em>re</em>’ works great and the distance between ‘<em>e</em>’ and ‘<em>s</em>’ is tolerably good.

Now, let’s take a closer look of what is happening here. If we enlarge the rendered image extremely we will see that, in fact, the reason is the rendered image of the ‘<em>s</em>’ itself. If we’d copy the letter pair near to the one of the line above we see that minor ‘<em>e</em>’ is rendered precisely in the same way, pixel per pixel it is identical, whereas ‘<em>s</em>’ is, indeed, different! Safari defined the (greyscale) pixels needed to translate the letter image in another way which leads to the impression that the second ‘<em>s</em>’ is placed more to the right: more or less in the measure of one pixel which is much even in ‘17px’ font height.
<blockquote>Those machines had, in fact, a limited number of letter width variations at disposition from which to choose for all alphabets’ letters. Which was one of the demanding tasks for type designers to adapt their letter drawings for.</blockquote>
I found out that Safari seems to offer always <em>two</em> different render image <em>versions</em> of all letters. Take a look at the last image to see some examples. What might be worth noting also is, that we have not three or more possible interpretations by Safari of each letter, just only the <em>two</em> of them. Which means that within the two variants there is absolutely no differentiation! Pixel by pixel they are exactly interpreted in the same way. Moreover, it seems this is valid for <em>all</em> letters, no exception here. Each letter has <em>two</em> render interpretations and that is it. Astonishingly, even a well prepared and hinted font does show similar results. After all, there seems not really much we can do about it, maybe except for simply being aware of it and taking facts like that into account when fitting our characters.

In conclusion, limitations of such kind make me remember our faithful digitization work for <span class="author">Monotype</span> fonts<span class="note">1</span> that were themselves once adapted for mechanical typesetting machines. Those machines had, in fact, a restricted number of letter width variations at disposition from which to choose for all alphabets’ letters. Which was one of the demanding tasks for Monotype type designers to adapt their letter drawings for. Surprisingly, given that they had rare or even no possibilities of <em>kerning</em><span class="note">2</span> for text setting, they succeeded in doing such an awesome job!

&nbsp;

<hr />

&nbsp;

1 – For the <em>VAL</em> project at the <span class="author">Stamperia Valdonega</span>, Verona Italy.

2 – Due to my own personal experiences and conviction it is properly doing <em>without kerning</em> which made those typefaces so strong and their letters’ <em>rhythm</em> such a splendid example for us to follow.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Text-original-100-4.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Text-original-100-4.png 1320w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Text-original-100-4-768x454.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span>s</span> I was recently working on my typeface called <em>Advanced</em> in text size version for use on <a href="https://www.stefanseifert.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>www.stefanseifert.com</em></a> I encountered a strange phenomena on <span class="author">Safari</span> browser what concerned its rendering on monitor. I was occupied with defining spaces when I observed that some letter combinations had awkward distances while being rendered not even in too small pixel sizes. Overall, the impression of text seemed to be a little messy. Here are some screenshots.

If we take a look, as an example, on the pair ‘<em>es</em>’ in two different lines (highlighted on the first picture) it jumps to the eye that the letter ‘<em>s</em>’ of the first pair seems to be strangely shifted to the right leaving by far too much space to preceding ‘<em>e</em>’ and being attached almost to the ‘<em>e</em>’ which is following. At the same time, yet, I liked the spacing in the same letter combination on the line right below. Without any <em>kerning</em> means the pair ‘<em>re</em>’ works great and the distance between ‘<em>e</em>’ and ‘<em>s</em>’ is tolerably good.

Now, let’s take a closer look of what is happening here. If we enlarge the rendered image extremely we will see that, in fact, the reason is the rendered image of the ‘<em>s</em>’ itself. If we’d copy the letter pair near to the one of the line above we see that minor ‘<em>e</em>’ is rendered precisely in the same way, pixel per pixel it is identical, whereas ‘<em>s</em>’ is, indeed, different! Safari defined the (greyscale) pixels needed to translate the letter image in another way which leads to the impression that the second ‘<em>s</em>’ is placed more to the right: more or less in the measure of one pixel which is much even in ‘17px’ font height.
<blockquote>Those machines had, in fact, a limited number of letter width variations at disposition from which to choose for all alphabets’ letters. Which was one of the demanding tasks for type designers to adapt their letter drawings for.</blockquote>
I found out that Safari seems to offer always <em>two</em> different render image <em>versions</em> of all letters. Take a look at the last image to see some examples. What might be worth noting also is, that we have not three or more possible interpretations by Safari of each letter, just only the <em>two</em> of them. Which means that within the two variants there is absolutely no differentiation! Pixel by pixel they are exactly interpreted in the same way. Moreover, it seems this is valid for <em>all</em> letters, no exception here. Each letter has <em>two</em> render interpretations and that is it. Astonishingly, even a well prepared and hinted font does show similar results. After all, there seems not really much we can do about it, maybe except for simply being aware of it and taking facts like that into account when fitting our characters.

In conclusion, limitations of such kind make me remember our faithful digitization work for <span class="author">Monotype</span> fonts<span class="note">1</span> that were themselves once adapted for mechanical typesetting machines. Those machines had, in fact, a restricted number of letter width variations at disposition from which to choose for all alphabets’ letters. Which was one of the demanding tasks for Monotype type designers to adapt their letter drawings for. Surprisingly, given that they had rare or even no possibilities of <em>kerning</em><span class="note">2</span> for text setting, they succeeded in doing such an awesome job!

&nbsp;

<hr />

&nbsp;

1 – For the <em>VAL</em> project at the <span class="author">Stamperia Valdonega</span>, Verona Italy.

2 – Due to my own personal experiences and conviction it is properly doing <em>without kerning</em> which made those typefaces so strong and their letters’ <em>rhythm</em> such a splendid example for us to follow.]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Signer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Chanel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg 1192w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-768x504.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-600x394.jpg 600w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-430x282.jpg 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-860x565.jpg 860w" sizes="(max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>his</span> character in the beginning was named “Allure” as a working title. For I asked myself what is an <em>allure</em>, and how would it influence on a character for the famous <span class="author">Chanel</span> perfume? As almost always I was inspired by some photo shooting by fashion photographer <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> and his intriguing — what Italians like to call “<em>inafferrabile</em>” — style.

After some first studies the <em>Signer</em> font was developed out of it and elaborated over a longer period of time before getting used also for some brand lettering studies.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> | Photography]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image.jpg 1192w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-768x504.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-600x394.jpg 600w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-430x282.jpg 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Allure_s_image-860x565.jpg 860w" sizes="(max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>his</span> character in the beginning was named “Allure” as a working title. For I asked myself what is an <em>allure</em>, and how would it influence on a character for the famous <span class="author">Chanel</span> perfume? As almost always I was inspired by some photo shooting by fashion photographer <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> and his intriguing — what Italians like to call “<em>inafferrabile</em>” — style.

After some first studies the <em>Signer</em> font was developed out of it and elaborated over a longer period of time before getting used also for some brand lettering studies.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> | Photography]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Character Sizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2016 20:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Couture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elegance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Form]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As for my fonts tend to be very thin in shape (and I would never...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span>s</span> for my fonts tend to be very thin in shape (and I would never like to change them, I like them as they are – in that maybe I am like a fashion designer who loves to see his creations on the very thin supermodels – because I think it gives more expression to their curves) I use to make later on different versions for the use in smaller sizes, too.</p>
<blockquote><p>And like in fashion design those light weight <span class="quote_emphasize">couture</span> forms serve as a master for whatever will become something <span class="quote_emphasize">wearable</span> in succession.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Credits:</strong><br />
<span class="author">[Dior]</span> | Photography</p>
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		<title>Riferimento</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Axes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Es ist wohl unwahrscheinlich, anzunehmen, dass auch in der Kunst der Buchstaben, irgendeine Art von...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">E</span>s</span> ist wohl unwahrscheinlich, anzunehmen, dass auch in der Kunst der Buchstaben, irgendeine Art von Behandlung einer Linie, des Raumes oder der Tiefe, bis hin zur nur scheinbar reduzierten Farbgebung auf das Schwarze und das Weisse entstehen könne, die nicht bereits <em>ihrer Charakteristik nach</em> in den bildnerischen Werken der <em>Renaissance</em>, in der dort unterschiedlichen Behandlung dieser Elemente durch die verschiedenen Meister, auf eine besondere und sogar explizite Weise behandelt wurde.</p>
<p>Nello stesso modo come il contorno di una bocca giovanile* dal disegno acuto e quasi cisellato non potrebbe non apparire ispirato a quelle linee d’un maestro dell’oreficeria come lo era un <span class="author">Sandro Botticelli</span><span class="note">1</span>; o dall’altro canto la superficie che si amalga tra le tinte e le sue sfumature evolvendosi dallo scuro verso il chiaro d’una carnagione non derivasse d’un’invenzione del <span class="author">Tiziano</span>, ecc. Questi che si potrebbe chiamare altresì «casi tipici» non sono che lati di un <em>disegno</em> più grande, elementi di un corpo solo al che l’uomo stesso sembri di potersi solo avvicinare in strati di concentrazione diversi, sicché ci erano necessarie tante di loro personalità – ognuno col suo <em>stile</em> (in quanto esso solo un frantume d’un intero) a farci dare l’idea di una <em>«qualche cosa»</em> più grande per cui poter vivere, in cui poter sperare.</p>
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<p>*Wobei die Augen auf ein in ihm liegendes, fast eigenartiges Zucken gelenkt wurden, dessen Ziel es schien diese Linien immer wieder neu zu formen, ihr scharfes (und doch zartes) Licht- und Schattenspiel in einen neuen Zusammenhang zu versetzen.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dort wo sich durch seine leichte Öffnung ab und zu das Relief ihrer Zähne zeigte, riefen sie ein Gefühl des Unstetigen hervor, einer zugleich schüchternen Jugendlichkeit, um sich gleich wieder von neuem dem interessanten, ,sich selbst vergessenden‘ Bogenspiel hinzugeben.</p></blockquote>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>1 – Tatsächlich, weniger was die Beschaffenheit einer Linie angeht, kann uns Botticelli Lehrmeister sein, als für deren <em>Rhythmik</em> untereinander: <em>Il «ritmo del particolare»</em>.</p>
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		<title>Revision of Advanced ‘s’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 05:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Design Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Typeface Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dynamics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhythm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symmetry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa.png 1884w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-768x394.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-460x236.png 460w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-960x492.png 960w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-430x220.png 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-860x441.png 860w" sizes="(max-width: 1884px) 100vw, 1884px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">S</span>creenshots</span> during the work process on lower case ‘s’ for the <em>Advanced</em> character. Parting form an original form that seemed to me having a good dynamic flow, yet, tended to separate the ‘s’ into two different form <em>zones</em>. The upper one more circular with less dynamic pen stroke then the lower one.

I decided to elaborate the lower one instead and make it more symmetric to its upper counter part. Slightly less <em>dynamic</em> but more fashionable <em>elegant</em>. This led over several versions that have broken digital curve harmony and made it necessary to re-adjust many curve segments in order to re-establish correct curve connections and flow.

During the whole process the letter is scrupulously observed in flipped position to clearer show vertical symmetry disharmonies. Different letters were inserted to take control over rhythm aspects as bowl widths and letter spacing.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa.png 1884w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-768x394.png 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-460x236.png 460w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-960x492.png 960w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-430x220.png 430w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advanced_7sa-860x441.png 860w" sizes="(max-width: 1884px) 100vw, 1884px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">S</span>creenshots</span> during the work process on lower case ‘s’ for the <em>Advanced</em> character. Parting form an original form that seemed to me having a good dynamic flow, yet, tended to separate the ‘s’ into two different form <em>zones</em>. The upper one more circular with less dynamic pen stroke then the lower one.

I decided to elaborate the lower one instead and make it more symmetric to its upper counter part. Slightly less <em>dynamic</em> but more fashionable <em>elegant</em>. This led over several versions that have broken digital curve harmony and made it necessary to re-adjust many curve segments in order to re-establish correct curve connections and flow.

During the whole process the letter is scrupulously observed in flipped position to clearer show vertical symmetry disharmonies. Different letters were inserted to take control over rhythm aspects as bowl widths and letter spacing.]]></content:encoded>
					
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