Virtue, on the Hale, space the letters out more and don't have them interacting so much, it just looks to crushed up and confused, although I have seen that style pulled off quite nicely in the 90s.
Awso, just leave any crazy letter development out of your pieces while you focus on simple letter structure
You will get 100% more respect from writers for being able to rock a solid simple over a half assed piece, this will never change, you need to actually learn the rules of graf and master them before you can start breaking them