Developed Lettering: Teaberry
Friday, September 11, 2009
5 Comments
5 Comments
I have been working on further developing the “grocery store” lettering from my first assignment in Ken Barber’s class, and here is where it has gotten me. Though it is in its infancy and I doubt I will ever get around to turning this into an actual font, I have started affectionately calling this face “Teaberry” after one of my favorite old-school chewing gum brands.
Please let me know what you think thus-far!
Nathan9/11
Looks sweet dude… loving the ‘y’ right now. The only thing that sticks out to me is the counter of the ‘o’. Would you prefer the right hand side of it to be smoother or is that the shape you were going for?
Either way, I’d be really keen to see it as a font if it gets that far. Nicely done.
N.
Sebastian9/12
What happened to your blackletter design?
Andy9/12
@Nathan – It does seem like the counter of that “o” has a bit too much attitude, I’ll be sure to smooth it out a bit!
@Sebastian – I decided to develop this character set because I thought it had a few more practical uses than the blackletter I was working on, though I was fond of that too. I expect I will definitely revisit the blackletter, though probably at some point later when I have some more time to sort through the details of it.
Thanks for commenting, both of you.
Colin Ford9/14
The blackletter thing had been done to death anyway. See: Blaktur and Fakir.
I like this one. I would space it out more, though. All the black is making it hard to read pick apart—especially in something like the double ‘m’ pair at the top. Remember what he said about the outside and inside space?
I like how sharp and prickly it is. The caps would be interesting to see.
Kip9/19
I’m loving the type right now, as said before the ‘O’ is a bit to heavy but the shape looks great. I could see this being used on sign-age and packaging.