Unfortunately I’ve never seen a time shift symbol in a day planner. Googling for “time shift symbol” brings some inspiration, but none of these seems to suit “works in small sizes” and “fits a serif font” .
Have to check some old printed planners tomorrow …
Thanks for the hint. They look really good, but the time shift symbols are probably a bit too complicated to work in the small font size. However, probably I’ll adopt the seasons symbols for my calendar .
I tried to improve the time shift symbol design to much better match the character of the Palatino font and to better work in smaller sizes. And I raised the moon symbols a bit. What do you think? Should I keep the dpts at 3-6-9-12?
If the calendar is for the new year, you still have plenty of time to finish . As for the daylight savings icon, I don’t think the new one matches the character of Palatino or the moon symbols. The most apparent difference is the stress (see: Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia). Also, the arrowhead is way too imposing:
It doesn’t have room to breathe.
It makes the rest of the clock appear off-kilter.
Just my thoughts. I am not a designer or anything .
Hm, the arrow is taken from the original font, but I had to shrink the head a bit to have room for the hands. I think it is much better without the scale points. I already prepared something but need time to finish it to show it here.
And there is not much time left if I want to have ~10 different calendars produced as christmas gifts. Photo selection is the most difficult part.
@chris I was bored the other day and drew a couple of daylight saving and moon icons. Haven’t adapted them to match small font sizes or your typeface choices.
@afre Sorry, but I ordered the Calendars on Tuesday, so your work may be included next year at the earlyest . It was just in time for the yearly discount of my supplier. I thought. Just to realise on Wednesday morning that they extended a second time. The extra week could have improved the Calendars even more …
Now I probably have some time to finish my calendar making tutorial for pixls.us. 50 % done already. @patdavid, do we have the possibility to host some video here to embed into a post? I did not require a youtube account so far and hope that it can stay like that.
Yippieh, the calendars arrived! 7 for the family (2 still missing but here I have a little more time) and one I did for the tutorial (the tutorial is still not finished but I think I can start posting the first part soon). The full stack can be seen in the photograph, with the tutorial “Play Raw” calendar being the visible one .