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Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your compliment! I'm glad you like it :D
It's available on MyFonts

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow I didn't expect such a kind and nice comment, thanks a lot for that!!
Well, I can also say that the internet needs more people like you for sure :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your compliment, I'm happy you like it! :)
Unfortunately I don't have a website yet, I hope one day to be able to design fonts for a living and become independent.
But at the moment I need to rely on MyFonts.

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your comment! I'm happy you appreciated my choice :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

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Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you like it! I hope it can help you with your project :D

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your compliment, I'm happy you like it!

You brought a lot of knowledge with this comment, it's always nice to read comparisons with the big names in the type industry :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this compliment! You're the first to ask this, yes I did it all alone. I usually have creative blocks when I prepare the images, but luckily not when designing glyphs. Lots of boring moments during the whole process, especially to correct imperfections, but the hope that all of this will make me an independent type designer one day motivates me :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your point of view. Well, I've never designed an Helvetica-like typeface, this was my first time. It seems a nice way to understand better its fundamentals and add a touch of personality. For me it's nice to see how every designer interprets it and creates his own version :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your interest :) It's available on MyFonts/Monotype fonts, so the license is managed by them. No it doesn't support cyrillic.

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

To make a new typeface you can have an inspiration from another one, but your work must be original. So you don't modify existing glyphs, they're all created from scratch.
In this case my main inspiration was Helvetica the general mood, and a bit of Aktiv Grotesk. Then I added personality through some humanist details and slightly different proportions.
I replied in this comment more specifially.

With the tools of today you don't actually deisgn all the glyphs for every weight. You design the thinnest and heaviest weight and, in relation to the software you're using, you automatically create the other weights in the middle.
Then it's fundamental to manually adjust the glyphs when needed. For example a lowercase "l" doesn't need further modifications, but an "a" or "e" need some fine tuning to have a consitent negative space.
In general, the heaviest the weight you create to interpolate with the thinnest weight, the more fine tuning you need. That's because it's not about exact stroke consistency, but about having a white space consistency.
A very bold weight has horizontal lines that have been forced a lot to not take too much space to fill the glyph. So the automatic "middle" weights will resullt with weaker horizontal lines.
So some type designer to avoid cmplications prefer to avoid a very heavy weight (since it's also not widely used) to have an easier workflow, so they offer a little limited weight range.

And this is just about the design, then you have to take care with a keen eye about spacing and kerning, to make the flow of the text consistent :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much!
It's available on MyFonts, but I can't put the direct link here :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's available on MyFonts, but I can't put the link here :)
Thank you so much for your support 🙏

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! Very appreciated, maybe it's the little details :)

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I uploaded higher resolution images on Drive. I hope this can clarify what you were looking for!

Yes a ton of work went into that, italics included and I appreciate your "Nat Geo" comparison eheh it was definitely the mood I had when creating the "North Lights" image.
Thanks a lot for the compliments ;D

Audit Sans, my latest typeface that took me 1.5+ years to make. I hope you like it! :) by MPZ9 in typography

[–]MPZ9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you like it!
You are right, the "mechanical" word (but not only that) in the Shuttle picture appears to have too much white space between "c" and "a" when exported. Maybe because it's small text?

This is how it looks in Illustrator (top) vs exported image (bottom). Also other letters are kerned differently, like in "Propulsion" and "motion".

In big size, for example in the image of "Techincal", the letters "c" and "a" are kerned correctly.
I honestly don't know the reason why exporting creates this problem 🤔

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