The Zee's typeface, step by stepListThumbs
The Zee's typeface, step by step
In 2006 we renewed the brand of our company, Zee. One of our goals was to create a really unique typeface, I mean a custom face that couldn't be bought or easily found. Thinking about that we had two options: modify an existing typeface or create one from the scratch.
After some search to fonts we decided to follow our second option and design a font from nothing, or barely nothing, because we had some thoughts about what we wanted.
The idea of the font is really basic, a module that we could repeat it as many as possible to create the whole alphabet. That was what we did.
For the module we chose a circle and picked a quarter of it.
With the module choosen we started creating some characters, in our case, many characters were just the rotation of a font such as E, A, 9, 6.
9, 6, A, and E are the same character rotated or mirrored. The same happens to C, L, J, O...
There were some characters that needed more attention like the V, W, T, K.
The V and W are cool while the T, I think, needs some improvements.
The main goal of this typeface was to be the ZEE' logo, as the name has basically 2 characters and with the E done, the Z was the most complicated one. It had to be different and cool.
The Z took a lot of time to be done, it's a mix of the A with the 8.
The whole alphabet was created, however there are some issues like kering, spacing, and a lot of special characters to be created if I want to distribute it as a font, though I'm creating the TTF file with what I have done so far, and as soon as I finish it I will put it here to download.
There are some letters that still need some adjustments, such as the Q,Y, and 4.
Despite the fact that the alphabet is not totally done, this font has been used since last year as the ZEE's logo. One thing that the font really needs is a name. Please if you have a suggestiong let me know.
Zee's website and its logo with the zFont.
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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.
18 Comments
how can i upload and design a pic???
excuse me! where can i download this font for free?
Has the *tiff* file been posted. I would love to use this font.
Keep ideas growing!
Wow that is a cool effect with letters!
Frank
vinyl siding
oh the font is so cool
which makes the design so awesome
good job sir
Are you Going to Upload the TTF file?? it is gorgeous! LOL
Bye..Pitrus
thanks for sharing the steps
makes it quite easy to do
but tell me in detail can you
thats nice piece of info
thank you for sharing it
good job
thats nice piece of info
thank you for sharing it
good job
I really like the font!!!Are you going to upload the font?
My english in not good so this is my question...
In what program did you made the fonts please?
How about Zee Type? Or Zee Gothic... it is *almost* gothic :-)
Awesome font, could you e-mail me it at jamespowell100 @gmail.com (you need to remove the space) really cool, keep it up.
When I created the Zee's font I was looking for something like the Madredeus, though, that font wasn't exactly what I was wiling to use for the logo, I wanted a clean typeface and really simple and modular, but of course the madredeus has the style that I used as inspiration.
Yeah I think I will name it Zee but maybe 2.0... actually there is a zee font that I had created back in 2002 for the ZEE's first logo...
Thanks for the comment!
maybe you followed the first option modifying an existing typeface. sticky
sorry but this Zee reminds me spookily one of my favorite typefaces, Madredeus
Hows about you name the font zee.....seems the obvious name to me.
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