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(x) Narrower alternative for Changeling - NeoTech {AK5683}

anonymous

im still looking for a slightly more condensed and legible version of changeling:

http://www.paratype.ru/mstore/fonts/Changeling.htm

wondering if anyone here has any suggestions?

thanks in advance!

I've thought about doing narrower versions of Changeling. Think there might be a market?

(BTW, I was a bit shocked when I first saw that page on the ParaType site. Must be some kind of referral deal between them and MyFonts.)

mark. yeah. i'd buy a copy...? if you have any suggestions for futuristic/speedy type fonts in the interim please let me know

How much narrower would you like it?

(BTW, there's a bug in the engine that runs this forum. Sometimes, posting seems to fail, but if you check, you will see that it went through anyway.)

It's sort of a guilty pleasure kind of design. One of my earliest typeface designs (never published) was in the same vein. I did a digitization of China for a client in the late eighties. I got a lot of queries about it since I show it in my custom fonts section on my site and decided to do my own version of it which became Changeling. A lot of elements from that early type design ended up in Changeling. The other stuff you allude to (Coquette, etc.) is where my head is at now after thinking about type for 20 or 30 years. Changeling is me reverting to what I thought was cool when I was just starting out.

after a few twists and turns ... neo tech is a nice suprise, and excellent solution.

http://monotype.co.uk/neosansAMT/

well. great idea ...if time were not an issue - id probably hit my friend Mike (www.youworkforthem.com) up - but thanks for the suggestion

I love the fact that you designed that typeface Mark. I mean from what I know of your work it strikes me as the unsung jekyll next to your famous hyde. (oh sheesh, pun not intended)

I have a suggestion: if you like Changeling but need something just slightly different, go straight to the source: commission what you want from Mark himself. He's around here, somewhere.

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