Futura - the perfect geometric typeface?


I have often found that supposedly perfect typefaces turn out to be less so on close inspection. Consider these examples for Futura: the version from Adobe (top in both examples) is clearly badly digitized. Early days, they were still learning -- it's not about blaming anybody, but about getting our client -- Volkswagen -- a decent typeface. If Futura's O is supposed to look like a perfect circle, why does it look like an egg? And look at the counters in a, g, and e! Those are also supposed to be circular, not egg-shaped. So we took the typeface apart and reassembled it. If your VW had egg-shaped wheels, wouldn't you complain? Or excuse it as an expression of the designer's creativity?









Posted: Do - Juli 29, 2004 at 08:41 vorm.        

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