A prospective font...

[RistoL.]

Started playing with hexagons and squares in an effort to create an unique font to use in my upcoming portfolio site and cv. This is where I'm right now:

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5774/image1tl5.gif

So what I'm asking you is whether this is even legible? The text is in finnish, so you probably won't understand it, but that will only make this test more valid in that the content of the text can't help you in recognizing the characters. ;)

[John G]

Takes a lot of work and comparing letter forms. You've got a number of forms that look like 'a' (n and something iwth a notch on the bottom).
r and t could be interchangable. And there are a few with notches cut out of them that I can't figure out.

[obesebee]

Nice idea but I can't read it! I think some of the letters need to be clearer. The "f" and "a" read the best.

[CkretAjint]

I can't read it at all...

[Red Kittie Kat]

I see

FAACAOIDEN
HIIHTEBY
ON
AINA
MEBHO

Then my eyes started to hurt trying to figure them out.

[obesebee]

I think you just insulted us in Klingon, Red Kittie Kat

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao I was afraid of that :p

[Virgo Nightingale]

Really can't read it at all. What I got out of it was similar to Kittie's. Are those actual words or random letters? Real words might be easier to read (context and all) but the letters themselves are quite hard to read.

[PrintDriver]

Don't make a prospective employer work to read your CV. I'd have tossed this one. Can't read it.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Really can't read it at all. What I got out of it was similar to Kittie's. Are those actual words or random letters? Real words might be easier to read (context and all) but the letters themselves are quite hard to read.


The text is in finnish, so you probably won't understand it, but that will only make this test more valid in that the content of the text can't help you in recognizing the characters.

Thats why I just typed out the letters to see if I was close. But even in English I think I would be having some issues :(

[Virgo Nightingale]

Aha, I didn't see the Finnish part. Still too hard to recognize the letters, and definitely NOT good for a resume.

[RistoL.]

Thats why I just typed out the letters to see if I was close. But even in English I think I would be having some issues :(

Yeah you had quite a few of them right. But I take it that v1 failed the legibility test quite miserably. And well, I would have had to have been out of my mind to have expected anything else. :D Not too alarmed, tho, as legibility isn't exactly a priority in this project. Still, I guess these need a bit of work.

Anyway, thanks for all the input guys! :) I'll be posting the next version in english, so we'll see how the context might help.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Ok Ristol .. can't wait to see it :)

[Randomhero]

Almost all the letters look like As. Being that its in another language I don't know if I am reading it correctly or not, I'm gonna assume not. It's a cool concept and I could see it working very well but it's gotta be more legible. I like the way it fits together tho.

[RistoL.]

Almost all the letters look like As. Being that its in another language I don't know if I am reading it correctly or not, I'm gonna assume not. It's a cool concept and I could see it working very well but it's gotta be more legible. I like the way it fits together tho.

Thanks man. :)

Yeah, the top corner on the hexagon probably has a part in most letters looking a bit like a's. Anyway, although it might help with the legibility and making the letters more distinct, I'm not prepared to stray from the rather strict "rules" I've set for the project, that is, having the hexagon as a basis and cutting away two squares of equal size. At least not yet. Although I am finding X and Z quite challenging. ;) Z as it stands is a reversed S, but I'm not yet sure about that. And absolutely no idea what to do with X. I'll include those in the next bit.

[budafist]

I can't read it but it looks pretty.

[spendthrift]

Were you drawing minesweeper?

[teqbra]

I like just looking at the pattern. it's interesting :D

[Mr_LeE]

I Read...

FAARAOIDE?
HIIHTEBY
O?
AI?A ?EBHO
HIUAA EUUHAA
TAI DOSHUS
ECYETISSA
OBBU WIEBA

also.. id help if it was in english LOL

[Pointyhat]

It is a cool idea. I think it could become a legible font.

[tZ]

Interesting forms but very few are legible.

[RistoL.]

bit of progress....

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/6018/cvfontv2fm5.gif

[Jam]

the quick brown fox goes hunting for zealous opossum youths?

[pinksta]

nice one! its alot easier to read now. The M and W were the least legible for me.

the text creates an interesting pattern too.

quite fun.

[a_muse]

I love the way it looks, but it still takes a lot of effort to read.

[budafist]

I think it is easier to read now.

If you were going to make this an actual font, the tracking and leading defaults would be interesting!

[Red Kittie Kat]

I can read it!! :D

It looks much nicer now Ristol :D

[Randomhero]

I think you might want to work on the "X" and what I assume is a "W", but other than that it's awesome.

[B'elanna Torres]

I think you just insulted us in Klingon, Red Kittie Kat
Kapla!! :D

Like the font the way it is now. Still hard too read but better than the first one.

[Emagdnim]

if that word is "zealous" and not "jealous" I can't help but notice you either don't have a Z or a J.... at least one that I could see.