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Normandia Bold

Jas

Normandia Bold is a font based on a letraset and inspired by Herb Lubalin’s extra black didot fonts.

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Another very well done typeface Jas. This is a very nice display font.

Now the nit-picky issues:

The lowercase d’s bowl doesn’t seem right, as if it was pinched and stretched vertically.

Your numerals are awesome, but the 8 seems incongruent, maybe the hairline should reappear before it goes back into the body?

Thanks!
I don’t feel the d is so bad but I had some troubles with the 8 and I will try to make it looks better ...

Of course, any changes you make will be of your own choice. I was just presenting my suggestions.

Are you planning any other versions? Italic, lighter weights?

Don’t take me wrong, I really appreciate every suggestions otherwise I won’t be posting on this forum lol so thanks for your opinion!

I’m not planning any other version right now. I just needed a nice headline font and I’ve digitalized two (Neil Bold and this one). I was especially interested to do a super black didone like some Herb Libalin’s fonts that he drew for Eros or Avant Garde magazines.
I’m not really into type design but I think that’s really interesting. For the moment I’m just studying without knowing exactly what I will do afterwards. So I don’t think I’m experimented enough to create italics and lighter weights for this font, but who knows, someday perhaps : )

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