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PseudoNympho 28/07/2009

I make all my fonts by hand drawing the contours, sorry if you thought I edited existing fonts. LT Anomaly is my only Avant Garde inspired font, and still I made it peice by peice, contour by contour. At that time I didn't even own a copy of Avant Garde, so I didn't literally refer to it when making it.

Furthermore, I created LT Anomaly only to serve as a base to Frail & Bedazzled, my first and only grunge font. I didn't like the idea of taking an existing font and photoshoping it, so I had to make my own.

My other sans serifs are just that- geometric sans serifs. That's all they have in common with Avant Garde, I don't make Avant Garde sets. They were not inspired by Avant Garde.

I used no font as a reference for Champagne & Limousines, or Caviar Dreams, if any font inspired me with those it would have been Manfred Klein's Geosans Light, though no one seems to make that comparison...

When I made them, I opened up a new font file, started with an empty glyph, and drew the contours, like I do with all my fonts. Just wanted to make light geometric Sans serifs.

I do love Avant Garde though. With that in mind and your reply as well, I do reconsider how I came across with my question to you. Though I think I don't go about making fonts the same as yourself, you are right, I am inspired by the work of others as well. So who am I to say anything about what is inspired by Herb Lubalin's designs, or what you or anyone else designs period.

This font has a resemblance to Blackout as well, which also contributed to my questioning of your design. I have seen other fonts and design work of yours, that was really quite impressive (read this post if you care to: http://nymphont.blogspot.com/2009/05/ten-amazing-dafont-font-authors.html)

This font just seems so less inspired than that. I dunno. It's really not my style to make statements such as this, so I do apologize for the harsh question.

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