[adamtovey]

My idea is to find out weather characters within a typeface have more personality and character when on their own, not in a word with other letters.

Do we recognize their individual quality much more?

when on their own do we study the form of the letters in more detail as we are not distracted by other letters?

Do components such as Ascenders, Counter, eye, fillet, ear, loop, leg, stem etc give it a individual personality? maybe we would not notice them as much if arranged with other letters? Legibility?

Does this allow us to make more assumptions and comments on what the letter form communicates to us? more in depth?, more personal?

Can individual characters have more human character when on their own as we notice certain attributes when may not of seen when arranged with others?

any comments?

[Do Gooder]

Originally Posted by adamtovey

any comments?

It's a friday and i need a beer.

[Hunch]

Originally Posted by adamtovey

Can anyone find examples of any typographic corporate identities which communicate a certain message or feeling about them?

For example HSBC below, Professional, Calm, Safe, Respected, Upmarket, Welcoming

communicating-through-type-1.jpg

Can you find any other examples that do this?

Any help would be much appreciated people

Originally Posted by adamtovey

I am looking for people to find a font, or a certain character from a font that represents themselves, give a brief physical description or emotions of you or someone totally random and pick a typeface that best sums you up only.

ONLY THROUGH THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF THE TYPEFACE

This is mine: font name Curlz MT

fonts-representing-yourself-please-help-people-me.jpg

Funny, irregular, joker, friendly, clowning around, easy going, fun to be around

can anyone help! find a typeface or a single character from that typeface that is you!!

Originally Posted by adamtovey

My idea is to find out weather characters within a typeface have more personality and character when on their own, not in a word with other letters.

Do we recognize their individual quality much more?

when on their own do we study the form of the letters in more detail as we are not distracted by other letters?

Do components such as Ascenders, Counter, eye, fillet, ear, loop, leg, stem etc give it a individual personality? maybe we would not notice them as much if arranged with other letters? Legibility?

Does this allow us to make more assumptions and comments on what the letter form communicates to us? more in depth?, more personal?

Can individual characters have more human character when on their own as we notice certain attributes when may not of seen when arranged with others?

any comments?

Do you just come here at the end of every week to get us to do your homework?

[Coops]

Originally Posted by Do Gooder

It's a friday and i need a beer.

So do I - get 'em in. I'll have a San Miguel.

[steveb]

I bought a 6 pack of Lapin Kulta. #2 is already halfway gone.

I sorta know what Thingy is on about. I like the letter S, partly because it's my initial. It's also very difficult to draw a perfectly balanced letter S, even with a graphics app.

Sometimes a typeface contains several very beautiful characters. I could spend hours admiring the subtle curves of a Helvetica lower case A - in fact, I probably have spent hours doing just that. Not all at once, though.

I wonder how wonderful a two-storey lower case Helvetica G would be - I bet it would be worth admiring for hours, too.

#2 has now been drunk.

[John Good]

Originally Posted by steveb

I wonder how wonderful a two-storey lower case Helvetica G would be

Lineto's Akkurat might be the answer

[steveb]

Hmm, you may be right. But maybe a Helvetica version would be a bit more "modern" - this is a lot like Franklin, from which Akkurat apparently developed.

[John Good]

FF Bau's then ? (at least if we consider squary as modern)

[steveb]

Yeah that's more like it! Getting there!