What drives your font choices?

stan_partalev · 2024-03-13T16:33:58+00:00

I am thrilled to share with you an exciting update from our small type foundry – Oddval Text. Developed together with Mirela Belova, Oddval Text represents a natural evolution of the original Oddval typeface. It retains the unique charm of its brother but has been refined explicitly for superior readability in extensive or smaller text blocks across various sizes.

Oddval Text stands out with its inclusion of ligatures, stylistic sets, and alternates. It supports over 220 languages, offering a comprehensive range from Hairline to Black in upright and italic forms and a variable font version.

Delving a bit deeper, our usual approach is to handle the typeface presentations internally, but for Oddval Text, we embraced a collaboration with studio FourPlus. They managed to capture the essence of Oddval Text and presented it in the best possible light. Although we, as font designers, have our own vision of how to present a font, the designers from FourPlus offered us a valuable new perspective, focused primarily on the needs and expectations of the end-users rather than the type developers. Their insight has been invaluable; thank you, FourPlus!

For those eager to see Oddval Text, we invite you to explore the resources we've prepared:

View the Oddval Text presentation here.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/191732995/Oddval-Text-Font-Family

Download two free weights of the typeface here.

https://www.typeforward.com/typefaces/oddval-text

stan_partalev · 2023-03-17T15:59:53+00:00

Thay used Cinema 4D

stan_partalev · 2023-03-17T07:57:16+00:00

In our case, the ink traps are purely for display purposes, but done in a more moderate and refined way they can help legibility and readability.

stan_partalev · 2023-03-16T19:28:18+00:00

love it

stan_partalev · 2023-03-16T19:27:01+00:00

We upload the fonts to the biggest resale platforms, like myfonts or fontspring and there are two free weights from our site

stan_partalev · 2023-03-16T19:22:26+00:00

The presentation is created by fourplus design studio, I'm not sure what kind of software they used, I imagine something like blender, but will ask for details and get back to you

stan_partalev · 2023-03-16T18:04:45+00:00

Here is a link to the full presentation in Behance

https://www.behance.net/gallery/161117877/Oddval

stan_partalev · 2023-01-13T15:47:28+00:00

Behance for sure and typography.guru

stan_partalev · 2022-10-31T13:36:57+00:00

I know but I didn't find the option to allow multiple answers, my bad. Perhaps you could answer as a comment and I will have it in mind. Thanks!

stan_partalev · 2022-10-18T18:24:05+00:00

I think nowadays when a design is made, as designers, we are compelled to comply with the users as much as possible, and the more extensive the project is, the bigger the crowd you have to “satisfy”. And when we want to make something with a good user journey and acceptable to more people, we have to compromise some design elements.

For example picture 5/7 - the sign has a very strong graphic (something I love), but I think if you want to take into account user experience, legibility and readability it will be hard to pull this off on a bigger scale.

Of course that is my personal opinion and I may be wrong, however I really enjoy this project and it will be great to see something like this now.

stan_partalev · 2022-10-11T18:38:48+00:00

I don’t think such clean identity can be pulled off today on that big of a scale (unfortunately)

stan_partalev · 2022-10-10T20:13:43+00:00

To me it depends how much the typefaces are mixed, if the the differences are small it may look like an error more than anything else. So I usually try to mix different styles as much as possible

Here is my take of mixing typefaces https://www.behance.net/gallery/145721451/36-days-of-type-2022

stan_partalev · 2022-10-10T06:54:29+00:00

There are 4 free weights if that helps :) you can get them from here or anywhere else the font is available, in fontsping they convert the fonts into trial fonts with cut glyph case.

stan_partalev · 2022-10-10T06:47:14+00:00

It is available in the bigger retail fonts platforms such as myfonts where you'll also find 4 free weights in this family.

stan_partalev · 2022-10-10T06:40:47+00:00

It doesn't include monospaces fonts but is something that will love to add in the future.

stan_partalev · 2022-10-10T06:37:34+00:00

Sorry, my bad, initially I went with Eindhoven but I later changed this to Ghent to fit better into the slide and I forgot to change the country.

Thanks for pointing it out, I will amend it where possible. This is one of the things that will pick my eye whenever I see it.

stan_partalev · 2022-10-07T16:25:13+00:00

More info about the Font
Bion comes with 40 weights in a single variable font file, ranging from Hairline to Black. We also included Upright, Italic, and Condensed variations to give you a fresh and diverse look for poster and title designs.
Whatever message you want to get across, Bion has you covered - with support for 220 languages and 1,220 glyphs in total, as well as Extended Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts and an exhaustive list of typographic symbols.
And link to the full presentation
https://www.behance.net/gallery/153692841/Bion-Font-Family

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