Hello, all. Nothing else to do (kids and fiancée are asleep), so I thought I'd post and beg for advice. I've been trying to make an italic to match this oldstyle roman, but I just can't get it right. To my admittedly untrained eyes, this italic is too stiff, formal, restrained and yet too... ornate? It has the mechanical rigidity of a Didone but lacks the grace and details. It seems more pedantic parody than living design.
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I also think the letters with ascenders are probably too vertical. I feel there is too much tension between the angles.