Sub/Conscious Meanderings » Daphne

Daphne finally gets an italic

Arlo — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:58:26 +0000

It’s been a long time coming, but Daphne is finally getting an italic. I’ve been making adjustments to the roman and finally had time to work out a preliminary design for the italic. It’s still really rough, but worth posting about.

At the portfolio review this last week, a friend of mine asked me to try and post a little more often regarding typeface design to catalogue my process, so periodically I hope to update with a new pdf of each of the styles I’m currently developing. Overall I’m happy with the flavor, but need to work out the details.

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Exhibitionism

Arlo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:33:50 +0000

The time is rapidly approaching for me to show my stuff. Daphne: Unreciprocated Love is finally scheduled to hang at the BYU Harris Fine Arts Center at the end of October. Now the time crunch begins. Knowing how I respond to tight deadlines I’m hoping that this will motivate me to get more done than what seems humanly possible. I’ve still to set the kerning, design two posters and the specimen book, then get it printed and hung. I’m hoping to have invitations ready to go out by next week.

Daphne’s Almost Done

Arlo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:15:03 +0000

After a very long (and somewhat rainy) day, my back is tired and my eyes can barely be kept open. Here’s the latest version of Daphne. I’m starting to lose track of all the glyphs, but I think it’s somewhere around 650. Anyway, the end of the tunnel is near. Enjoy.

Daphne's Almost Done

Arlo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:15:03 +0000

Whoosh!

Arlo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:08:51 +0000

That’s the sound of nearly two months flying by without a single post. So here’s a quick update about what I’ve done. The move went very well. Austin and I are pretty settled now, with lots of odd jobs in the queue. We’ve already made new curtains, a table cloth and place mats. The next project is a little more daunting–find the right old chandeliers to hang in the living room as a gothic/modern blended sculpture thing. Needless to say, it’s still in the planning stages.

Work is treating me rather well also. We’ve been swamped with projects and the days have been a little longer on average. After an excellent three-month review I received a pretty comfortable pay raise that will help with the repayment of student loans. Hint has also hired a new designer, one of my former classmates and now my “underling”. He’s very talented and it’s a new challenge for me to manage another designer.

I’m finally wrapping up my BFA and might have an opportunity for distribution sooner than I anticipated. Daphne, formerly Marua, has nearly 500 glyphs and supports many languages I could never hope to pronounce, read or otherwise understand. But they sure do look pretty. I’m finalizing some programming things to make the final font functional. The goal is to have everything completed by the end of the month. (Fingers crossed.)

Austin started school this week, so my sleep schedule has been interrupted by NPR at 5:30 a.m. Not that there’s anything wrong with NPR or 5:30 a.m. I’m sure I’ll start to get used to the early mornings and fill them with some new project.