Glory

Visual anatomy & craft review

Letterform structure
of Glory.

The G closes with a square bar, the L keeps one heavy arm, the O holds a rectangular counter and the Y forks with flat cuts, all at a very heavy weight with squared corners and a bevel across the top and left edges. The scanlines are the defining feature: three or four horizontal gaps cut through each stroke at regular intervals and stay aligned across the word, which is what makes the face read as a screen artifact. That alignment is also the risk — set at different sizes, the stripes drift out of register between letters. Because the shapes are simple, the face holds at 60 pt on a poster and fails below 20 pt where the gaps read as damage. The dark ground, the gradient fills, the sparks and the two caption lines are presentation; the typeface is the word.

Striped · Retrowave · Arcade