Minding my Q’s
Immersing myself all day on type making today. I’m working on that new typeface for The League.
It’s coming along quite nicely, and faster than I thought it would. But for most of today and yesterday, I’ve been stuck, unexpectedly on the letter Q.
You’d think Q would be pretty simple, right? Copy the “O” and give it a tail. Well, the tail is really the pickle here. I just didn’t know what sort of tail it should have. Should it reach below the baseline, or should it be aligned to the baseline?. Should it slice through the bowl of the O, or not? How angled should the tail be?
All in all, I spent a ton of time trying out all the different possibilities that the Q could go, but I think I finally have decided on one, the very last one on that list. You can see the evolution I went through to get there.
To be honest, I think some of the non-slicing tails in the beginning of the list kinda looks good, as a stand alone Q, but I don’t think they’d work well as part of a unit. I’d like to keep all the capitals to be aligned and above the baseline, so having a Q tail that reaches below, would break that consistency.
So that’s where I’m at right now. Stay tuned for more updates, ramblings, queries, complaints, and/or suicidal thoughts on this subject!
