Are you supposed to design a whole typeface, i.e., a design for a font? This looks more like a collection of three graphic forms, or icons of some sort� they look good indivdually, but putting them together to creat lines of text would not be successful with these forms.

These forms do look good as stand alone objects, but I don't see any of the Snell Roundhand. The Gill Sans and the Garamond are clear.

Some people may give you a hard time for choosing ITC Garamond, instead of another Garamond, because ITC Garamond is a very unpopular typefaces. It is unpopular because it is not a real Garamond revival at all. But, if you are just using it as a typeface, and not as a Garamond, I don't see any problem with it� you aren't designing a text face here anyway.

Where are you studying?

"Unpopular" implies some level of injustice. There is none. ITC Garamond is sick on a number of levels. Choosing it as an archetype of serif fonts is not good.

hhp

I am studying a a degree in Contemporary Graphic Design, the brief also stipulates that although the use of classic typefaces will be the foundation of the font and must include elements used from each font, the fonts must not be initially indentifiable. We are only created 26 Uppercase characters. I chose Garamond ITC as I was after a rounded serif rather than a slab or calligraphic serif. (any other suggestions would be grateful).

Well, any other Garamond would be better (Adobe Garamond, Stempel Garamond, Sabon, Sabon NEXT, etc.) Adobe's Minion might be another good choice, as would any Bembo, Caslon, or Baskerville�

cheers dan, i have started to use the inverted serifs using Baskerville...... it's looking good, i will post the 26 character sheet when i'm done, thanks for the advice.