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davelab6 commented 3 years ago

I encourage you to differentiate this from Product Sans and Google Sans, so that it could become available in Google Fonts :)

erikdkennedy commented 3 years ago

Nice – will make this a design goal going forward. I'll check in when I've done that more, but probably before adding italics.

erikdkennedy commented 2 years ago

Hi @davelab6

Here are some of the changes I've made to Blueberry to distinguish it from Google Sans. Some are more conceptual, some are more specific.

Since /a and /g are perhaps the best glyphs to differentiate geometrics, I made both more distinct. /a now has a flat-topped bowl and /g has a truncated descender with a terminal consistent with /jy
Product Sans has a motif of angled terminals just overshooting the cap height (or baseline), for glyphs like 6, 7, and 9. Blueberry uses horizontal terminals with no overshoot for all of those.
/y has a curved descender consistent with /fgjt
/M has a sharp midpoint and /W's midpoint sits on the cap height
/ARP have lowered crossbars (more visible in bold), which makes the caps feel more solid and serious
The punctuation varies a bit, including the non-furled question mark, stroke form for the comma, and unbroken ampersand

Is this enough differentiation, or should I push farther from Product/Google Sans? If the latter, how close is this to being acceptably different for Google Fonts?

(Sorry for being obnoxious here – this is my first font, and I'm not sure what's deemed acceptable in the somewhat crowded world of geometric sans)

Thanks, Erik

erikdkennedy commented 2 years ago

Hey @davelab6, any thoughts on the above? Thanks!

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