Thread: Chennai. Rounded, simplified sans serif.

Chennai has been updated with general tweaks and three new weights: Chennai Jeremy Dooley www.insignedesign.com

You’re very welcome, Jeremy. I’m very excited to have made (apparently) valuable suggestions — gives me more impetus to get started on my own creative endeavors. I really like how Chennai turned out, and I really like your suggestion about using alternates for body text. I think that the overshoot is now just about perfect, with the bowled characters sitting right where they should. That new Q is also terrific. I...

Is the thinning of the cross stroke in medium lowercase e needed If you look at en in Vendors the beginning of the arch in n is thicker. It may be that you want to avoid congestion in e but it’s one character that stands out a bit IMVHO The bolder and light weights look much better

Hate to complain, but your site is busted under Firefox. Works great with IE though. (At least on my system!) Having said that, your font design is a clever idea, IMO.

I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way, but it looks like just the thing to use when Comic Sans just doesn’t cut it and VAG Rounded is too formal. By that, I mean the style looks to be right on the edge between hand lettering and a more formal typeface. Mostly the curves of the horizontal bars of the uc, and the way the g and e are drawn contribute to the hand-lettered aesthetic, but the G and O appear to be nearly...