Hi matthew

a good start i would say...
Look at the 'c', the width of the bowl is bigger than the bowl of the 'd'. Is it the same stem-width as the.

The horizontal stem of the 'f' and 't' is to short in my opinion. BTW: the angel of the 't' down-stroke and the 'f' up-stroke looks very different to the others round shapes. (dont need to be the same... maybe it is only my own flavor)

The 'n' needed a little improvement at the left stem.

'd' where the bowl go in to the stem looks round at the punch but linear a the outside (hope you understand what i mean)

The 'm' is to small

okay hope this helps a little

Greetings Jens

Very nice start. Reminds me a lot of Bernhardt (Agfa) or Bernhard (Font Company). I think overall your spacing is a little tight. (Although you probably aren't addressing spacing just yet.) I agree with the remarks made by Jens overall. It looks as if you are designing a monolinear design, but I think the main vertical strokes on all the characters (which have them) would benefit from a little modulation. I'm interested to see your version of UC for this style of face. Post soon?

Jens... having not benefited from an eductaion in typography of any kind, your remarks at first were slightly confusing. But it doesn't take a genius to decipher most of what you say.
>Look at the 'c', the width of the bowl is bigger than the bowl of the 'd'

yup, noticed that. have corrected.
>The horizontal stem of the 'f' and 't' is to short in my opinion

I was unduly influenced by a common newspaper font in England here. You are right.

>BTW: the angel of the 't' down-stroke

Am I right in thinking you meant to say "angle"?

anyway, will fix the 'm' and 'n'. I can see what you mean about the 'd' in the gif, but in fontographer it seems OK. strange.

anyway, here is the font so far..


m still needs work, as does s

Hoppla angle yes you are right! Im sorry! I form germany...

lets go on: :-)
'm' and 's' you saw by yourself... but look where the bowl meet the stem and compare/make it similar to the 'n' (the same to the 'r'). The 's' seems to be mirrored. You can do this I guess but I would try to do something like this:
(simulation)


The width of 'v', 'x' and 'z' is to big, inverse the 'w' is to small.
Flavor: the middle stroke of the w maybe have to go up to the x-height

The horizontal line of the 'e' need improvement. Also the 'down'bowl as not smooth

BTW: Please dont care about the typography name I make, maybe they are wrong..

Greetings Jens
BTW: wich university is it where you will go? And wich 'course'?

thank you - the 's' helps a lot - ignorant of basic type composition I am. I will correct the other letters.

Cambridge University, doing Computer Science.

Thanks for the help

Matthew

> Cambridge University, doing Computer Science.

Heavy.

The font: my main problem is that many of the curves have "wobbly" contours; like in the bowl of the "b", the top is heavy, the right way too light, and the bottom a little too light. Compare with the "c", which is mostly solid, but much darker too. Also, make the "m" like the "n".

hhp