I was asked to design a hairline face to go with this face:


I was given as reference these two faces. It was suggested that the final typeface might be related to these two:



and




This is what I came up with:




There are lots of problems with this kind of relationship. One is that there is a visual problem between bold and light faces because the counters of light faces are visually larger, while the strokes are smaller. It makes the two weights hard to integrate successfully.