I always admired the finesse and I imagined the attention to detail and time needed to create a good usable font, but never got to jump on the bandwagon of font tools. Since I was familiar with Illustrator, and the appearance on the market of Fontself, I decided to give it a try.

I wanted to merge a few characteristics from popular fonts like the DIN fonts, Proxima, Helvetica, Roboto etc. (yes, big shoes to fill there), but also learn by doing what the problem spots in the process are.  It was not my first try, I previously tried the same process with a simpler display font Future Primitive.

This is the what resulted, a small font family, that can be used everywhere with regulars, bold, italics and a condensed version. There is a lot of room for improvement, yes, but my task for this one was accomplished, I learned a lot about fonts. Stay tuned for more 🙂