OUGD601: Practical - Collaboration - Franziska's Additional Changes

Just like Jan, I also met Franziska while in Slovenia. I was also impressed by her work, and wanted her to contribute some work. The diagonal characters were still needed, so I approached her to help out with these. 

Franziska is from Austria, so now I will have contributors from both Czech and Austria. 


                                                                                                                                                                        

Logged Changes: 

Franziska Weitgruber

hey joe. I did V, W and Y, I’m sorry I can’t do more. The V and W are quite thin where the stem and the hairline join (I took the form from A). Maybe you could try to thicken these parts a bit on A, V and W?
There are some small things I noticed on E, F and H. On the E the arm should be a bit shorter than the lower part. The crossbar on these three letters should also be lower I think, on the F it should be even lower than on the E because of the whitespace (I added a new layer on E, F and H and named it Franziska so you can see what I mean).
I wish you all the best for your project and hope to see the results soon. Greets, Franzi
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COP-Regular_Franziska.glyphs


                                                                                                                                                                        

Usage: 

Here are examples shown with the characters Franziska added. 

VWY:





I can see what Franziska means about where the stem and hairline join on these diagonal characters. I plan on correcting this later in the project, when all the characters are in place. 

EHF:





As you can see in the above examples, Franziska has offered different options for the E, H and F central crossbars. Although these increase readability and overall fluency of the characters, they also take away the characteristics of the original inscriptions. I've decided to include both options, using Franziska's options as alternate characters. 




Current Stage:


Wednesday, 17 December 2014 by Unknown
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OUGD601: Practical - Crit

Today we had our COP Practical Crit. 

I presented my typeface (at it's current form), and explained where the original inscription came from. 







I also mentioned that i've been working with Jan, from Czech Republic. 

Feedback:

- Great progress, much further than most people at this current time. 
- Concept works well, the idea of using something local and making it global works well. 
- Definitely try and get the typeface available to buy. 
- Consider creating different weights?
- Work with as many people as possible, and get lot's of feedback from people you've spoken to in your dissertation. 
- Speak to Graham for more industry links! 




Friday, 12 December 2014 by Unknown
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OUGD601: Practical - Collaboration - Jan's Additional Changes

Excuse the 'selfie'.... But here is a photo of Jan and I, taken when I was at a typographic workshop last summer in Slovenia:


I got to know Jan quite well, he's a type designer from Czech Republic. He has been designing typefaces for the last 5 years, and has been going to the workshop for the last 4 years. After seeing some of his work, I really wanted him to help me out. Another advantage is that Czech is a language with LOTS of diacritic characters, so is something he is much more familiar with than me. 

                                                                                                                                                                      

Correspondance 
TypeClinic Facebook Group

Before figuring out who I was working with, I posted the following post on the 'TypeClinic' Facebook page, to make all members aware of my project. 



 Initially Talking to Jan

I spoke to Jan briefly about the project, and then send him the file (in the software - Glyphs format) to work on. I also sent the reference to work from, and told him to notify the changes made, so he can be credited. 

Joe Leadbeater
19/11/2014 16:0



















Email Response:


Jan Emailed me His Response:



                                                                                                                                                              

Changes Made

Jan forgot to take many screenshots, but just as importantly, he noted his progress: 



COP – Change log
  • version increased to 1.001, added myself as a designer to info meta
  • fixed sidebearings – H, B, D, I, E, C, L, T
  • creating serif components
  • “B” – adjusting bowls balance, slightly enlarged width
  • “D” – changing serifs to components, matching its bowl to “O” , adjusting top and bottom bar to refered 70 points
  • “I” – changing serifs to components
  • “E” – changing serifs to components, changing middle bar serifs and terminal serifs to match the standard serif and keeping consistency
  • “F” – changing serifs to components, changing middle bar serifs and terminal serifs to match the standard serif and keeping consistency, enlargement bottom right serif for adding more optical stability, enlarging top right terminal serif to add an optical balance
  • “L” – Adjusting serifs to the “F” letter (turned 180° CW), shortening of the bottom arm for better performance – to minimize the white space
  • Changing the vertical “stem” width at “O” to balance it with “H” vert. stem
  • Added kerning pairs L-T, L-U
  • Added overshoot alignment zones (AZ)
  • “O” & “C” aligned to AZ
  • Added kerning pairs T-J, F-J, F-A,  A-T, T-A, D-A, P-A, C-A, A-C, A-T, O-A, A-O, B-A, U-A, A-U,
  • Added kerning pair R-T
  • Generated new accented glyphs & local glyphs & diacritic marks
  • New letters and digraphs added – IJ, Thorn, A_E, O_E
  • Accent Acute.case, Breve.case, Caron.case, Circumflex.case, Grave.case created
  • “G” – adjusted to the “C” letter
  • New letter added – “N”
  • Added kerning pairs Thorn-A_E, P-A_E, F-A_E, U-J, period-T-period, comma-T-comma
  • Adjusted width of “space”
  • New letter added – “S"

Jan explained he didn't spent 'too long' on the file. but it seems he's added a huge amount, not just to the diacritics, but also the overall metrics (spacing for each character and kerning pairs). 

                                                                                                                                                 

Current Stages

Most of the common diacritics has been completed, as well as most of the Latin Characters. The diagonal characters (eg. W, X, Y, Z) need working on. 













Sunday, 30 November 2014 by Unknown
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