Phudu

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Phudu介紹

DT Phudu是一種無襯線字體，靈感來自過去越南的手寫廣告牌。它由從淺色到黑色的5個權重組成，與其他輕量級窄字體相比，它越輕，就越擴展，以提高可讀性。有些細節是尖端的，並沒有為此目的而變得尖銳。DT Phudu有相同的大寫和小寫，只使用全大寫的信息顯示，就像我們越南的廣告牌風格。

我為甚麼要做這種字體？在學習和製作字體的過程中，我一直在思考是甚麼造就了越南字體。如果我們回到過去，我們可以在廣告牌商店看到我們的字體風格，當時藝術家們改編了拉丁字體，然後根據他們的風格添加了標記。其中，大多數都是無襯線的大寫字母，用作描述，有時也用作商店名稱本身。為了製作一種新的易讀易用的字體，我將上面故事中的一些研究與字母混合在一起。我不想只是復興這些類型，我想改進它們，這樣它們就可以適應現代風格，但仍然有“越南人”的靈魂。字體命名為DT Phudu（phục dựng）-越南語中的“復興”，具有永恆的含義（與名稱相反，它可以讀作“phúdu”-短暫）。

DT Phudu is a display sans-serif typeface inspired by Vietnamese hand-lettering billboards in the old days. It consists of 5 weights from Light to Black, and the lighter it gets, the extended it becomes, for readability compared to other lightweight narrow typefaces. Some details are cutting-edge and not sharpened for this purpose too. DT Phudu has the same upper and lower-case, with the message of using only ALLCAPS for display purposes just like our Vietnamese billboard styles.

Why I made this typeface? In the process of learning and crafting types, I have always thought about what makes a Vietnamese typeface. If we rewind to the past, we can see our lettering styles on the billboard stores, when the artists adapted Latin typefaces and then added marks based on their styles. Among those, there were mostly all-caps sans-serif types played as descriptions or sometimes the store's names themself. To make a new easy to read and easy-to-get typeface, I mixed some of the research from the story above with letters. I don't want to just revive the types, I want to improve them, so they can fit the modern-day styles but still have "Vietnamese" souls in them. The typeface was named DT Phudu (phục dựng) - "revival" in Vietnamese, and has a meaning of timeless (quite the opposite of the name when it can be read as "phù du" - ephemeral).

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