Hey guys i'm at it again with another text font that will take a year to finish and sell 2 licenses
Will most likely stick with the name Caster, unless you guys have suggestions
This is the caption master, intended for 6 point text.
Are these vertical metrics ok? I made the total height 1000 upm because Adobe fonts do that, but should I make them go farther up and down so nothing is clipped?
Attached is a pdf with running text !
What do you guys think?
Comments
Should the period be a smidge bigger?
Mid-line head serifs (/i/j/m/n/p/r/u/) pop up a little to high to my eye.
«Caster» as in spellcaster? It does have a bit of a fantasy flavor to it.
The current weight strikes me as a bit dark for comfortable reading, at least in the PDF. It looks great up close.
I can say the same about /и. It matches well with /a and looks great, but looks a bit out of place next to /c, /e, /м.
/ф looks a bit boring, the middle of the stem is too uniform in thickness. /l feels more alive.
Overall I like it a lot, looking forward to that /ю
But if you are determined: What does Caster introduce that does not already exist in, say, Zapf International? (In the basic alphabetic design, not language support or OpenType features such as figure alts.)
Certainly, it is original, but not enough—because, in sans faces, people are more attuned to the significance of subtle differences, which they just don’t see in the old-fashioned serif genre.
Now you might say, serif fonts will come back into fashion; but that won’t help typefaces designed premature to such an event, should it happen. Timing is everything when it comes to trends.
On a positive note, bravo for doing size-specific variants—that is a saleable feature, especially if embedded in the hot new format of OTVar.