Hi Charles, Valerie...
please let me explain
again – I am not discussing different signs. I am not discussing that it is
possible to bent the fingers just a little bit or extremely. I would like to discuss
the possibility to write
the bent index as a bent sqare finger or as a half –circle curve. See the
sign below. Looking at the left or right hand there should not be any
difference – well perhaps except for the “feeling” – smile
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If you bent your fingers –
you can write this as bent square fingers. (We
find this for handshapes with one, two or three fingers) We do not find this
for 4 or 5 fingers –
Why?
Well the fingers bent the same way but the design of that
given handshape shows smooth lines instead of “bent square fingers”
Is this because of a design – problem with old
software or is there an idea behind this concept.
I fully agree with your last statement “ "beautiful"
artwork must make sure that you don't lose articulation. “ That is the reason
that I ask for your opinion smile!
Hi Valerie – what do you
think ?
All best
Stefan
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Februar
2013 23:12
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For me there is an essential difference between a
bent finger and a smoothed finger when you miss the point that two joints are
bent, like the difference between "depend" where the joints
smoothly go into a curve, and "friend" where they clearly link as
bent square fingers.
Hi Valerie and sw-friends, I would like to ask for your
comments about the following issue. Within our delegs-projekt a group
of specialized design-students have a second look at the various SW-symbols.
From their point of view there are options to “improve” the design of some
symbols in order to make the whole SW-symbol-font look more “modern” or
“nice” While preparing some studies of
the ongoing process they showed up with the question whether the bent index
can be written with smooth curves as well showing the index finger bent as
you designed it as a finger with sharp edges.
I played around with the signmaker
to create a little demo of what I am talking about. ;-)) Interesting question – so I looked
carefully at the Symbolset and discovered that the “claw hand” is
designed exactly this way (rounded lines for the fingers) On the other hand the hands with
only one, two or at least three fingers show this other design with sharp 90°
angles. Can you tell us: Is this a matter
of history? Coming from the old “DOS-SW-Software – we could not write nice
circles either. You know this “old symbol” just indicating that you are
supposed to see a circle-movement shown as some dots in a circle. What about this difference between
a clawhand with curves or the same hand written with edges?
Is there any meaningful difference
in the background that you would want us to know? Or is this a
matter of artwork? ... or something else? Would it be any difference if we
would write all these bent fingers with soft rounded lines? Thank you very much for your
attention. All best Stefan |