Sunrise » type http://johnwallie.com/Sunrise The Airship Age We Never Had: A Webcomic. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 New Typography http://johnwallie.com/Sunrise/2009/06/09/new-typography/ http://johnwallie.com/Sunrise/2009/06/09/new-typography/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:26:38 +0000 John http://www.johnwallie.com/Sunrise/2009/06/09/new-typography/ Are any of you graphic designers?  If so,  you probably don’t like the font I use for lettering,  and I don’t blame you.  I’m no typographer,  but I do have a passing interest in type.  I’m a devotee of the Ban Comic Sans movement,  a fan of Garamond,  and I’ve met the director of the documentary Helvetica (I could have played foosball with him,  but he didn’t want to play any more rounds).  So I am aware of the limitations of the font I’ve been using.

This is  all to say that I’m considering a move to a new  typefact.  The typeface  I was using before is called Amusivity.  It was my first attempt to create a font for comic lettering (before I’d used BlamBot’s Spectre Verde).  However,  I didn’t do a great job on it,  and the fact that I’m still using this stilted font is starting to bother me.  Thus I set about creating a new font,  Ambrose Rinilchi,  which you can see below.

One thing I’m toying with is the possibility of using lowercase text.  From top-left clockwise: Amusivity,  Ambrose Rinilchi medium,  Ambrose Rinilchi light,  Ambrose Rinilchi all-caps.

Any comments?

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