You are very precious about her and she is your most beautiful creation to date. You hope the typographer will adore her more than any of the other kids and understand her little quirks and make allowances or smooth them over - okay, okay this comparison could get more twee and much worse, but I did feel this way a bit.
Philip sent me a sample of the first few letters of the text with designated typewriter keys to test with my photographic screen printing and here are the results. The 72dpi does nothing for this, but they looked great!
So, this is screen printed and so I know that the weight of the letter is right and that the results are very good even at12pt. I'm delighted and I now just have to design the rest of the lower case alphabet and the spacing and take it from there. Philip is happy to take it in stages and nurture my font into being!
And I have decided to name the font Elva after my Swedish granddaughter.
Here it is so far:
whooo-ooo!
This is Elva's second claim to fame. An international tennis player has also been named after her - not before her! Andy's friends are teaching English in Thailand and there is a young Thai tennis player just moving onto the international circuit. She wanted a more pronounceable name which also had a bit of credibility (I mean, something too English or Sloany wouldn't do!) They suggested Elva and she loved it!
It's a bit like leaving your first child at nursery, maybe. Your third child you just leave there by accident and spend the morning happily studying... And then make up for it in later life by designing fonts for her stories!
ReplyDeleteI LIKE this font, Lin! Great story about the tennis player too.
ReplyDeleteSo will you be making the font available commercially?
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