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I would go with a squarish /w (inversed m) and a flat-top A, avoiding all slight curving. Generally, I think the uppercase is too different to the lowerscase in style and in the way the D, M and A ar… (View Post)

The inward slopes toward the stems of the stemmed letters are sound and good. The problem is that they interact with the up-sloping round letters to give the general impression of chaotic crookedness… (View Post)

"Trends" to me are when there becomes a certain oft-repeated tendency to model a typeface on another original one which has achieved popularity. They become "fashionable" rather t… (View Post)


They seem pretty useful, thanks! May I ask why you listed the "Fontlab names"? Aren’t these an internal software thing? (View Post)

I'm a beginner type designer with formal education in type design, computer science & mathematics. I've got some experience in programming. I'm thinking of moving to Europe, but I don't have a EU… (View Post)

Welcome to the family! (View Post)

As much as I applaud MS for making such a process more transparent, open and iterative, I feel neither of the fonts really feels Microsoft (brand) nor default (UI). I’d be curious was this an after-t… (View Post)

I might call the descender of /y a bit timid. My understanding of д+л is that the balanced triangle form is legible and valid even in languages like Russian where the square form is the text norm, bu… (View Post)

I think the typeface would be less useful if you chose to go with more eccentric characters, such as pre-Petrine Cyrillic. And I don't think the strange form of xi you have exhibited is advisable eit… (View Post)


I have a rather different philosophy on presentations, one similar to newspaper articles. Most people nowadays don't have the attention timespan to look at something for more than some secon… (View Post)