Super Elevated
Here’s a little typeface I’ve been working on for a few months now – I’m not really sure why I made it, or what I will do with it now that it is done, but I like it and had fun doing it. There’s a bit of work still to be done, but wanted to share it. Font-making has become a favorite family pastime, or weird addiction – whatever you want to call it.
Inspired by a bit of type found on the inside of an elevator door, this new typeface is designed with extra tall and thin letters. The tallness and thinness surpasses most type designs in it’s class.
Super Elevated also incorporates a subtle serif and elegant proportions that give it class. The extra tall letters are especially difficult to read at small sizes, making better to use at large sizes, however, non-readability is considered a feature of this typeface.
This is what happens late at night at the Dilworth home… I hope you enjoy it.
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you make it sound like you and your wife and kids all crowd around your mac, each contributing little things here and there. or maybe each with their own computer, and you assign letterforms to each kid?
Haha, yeah it is kind of like that. Both of my kids – Klaire and Paxton are addicted to font making with Fontstruct.com. Paxton has made 3 fonts (he’s 4) and Klaire is working on her 5th or 6th – and actually coming up with some cool stuff. I can’t get Kathi excited about it yet…
This one was just my project, but when they finish up, I’ll show you the ones they’ve come up with. For now, it’s been entertaining enough to keep them from demanding that we get them xbox.
Very cool. I don’t know much about typography—-but just curious about the lower case r. Why did you make it capital? R