Inspired by something Ole just wrote, I figured to ask this trivial little question:
What's the glyph you most love?
If you're a type designer, please choose one you've made. Here's mine:
hhp
This is difficult, but favourite among my own designs is probably the lowercase alpha from Clio:
Picking a favourite glyph designed by someone else might be even more difficult, but Giovanni Mardersteig's Dante family deserves mention for containing two glyphs I really love: the lowercase roman a and the lowercase italic g.
Here's an even more difficult question: what is your favourite whitespace between two glyphs that you have designed?
The ampersand from Oneleigh Italic (left) was inspired by, among other things, the Monotype Garamond ampersand (right), something Les Usherwood once said about the ampersand beign a character he liked to get his teeth into (or words to that effect), and of course all those pages people used to put together showing ampersands from a variety of fonts.
Yeah, that "g" (the nastiest glyph I've ever made - it makes me want to go out and pillage something) is from Brutaal (of Daam Entity): http://www.themicrofoundry.com/s_latin.html
hhp
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