Should curved strokes end at the same height?

Ori Ben-Dor

These are taken from a Hebrew typeface I'm working on, so there are no Latin letters. Anyhow, notice the inconsistency in the curved strokes: each ends at a different height. Would you say that's a problem?

Christian Thalmann

No, it's not a problem. These glyphs have very different internal white spaces and require different degrees of intrusion by those curved strokes to look balanced.

Ori Ben-Dor

Well, luckily the euro and the dollar signs aren't likely to follow each other as they do here, but suppose they were (or imagine they were C and S), doesn't it look bad that their strokes end almost at the same height but not exactly?

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Basically it's a matter of thresholds: when they're close "enough", snap them; but don't make that an objective of itself.

Ori Ben-Dor

Sounds like a reasonable approach, thanks. Would you snap my euro/dollar signs, for example?

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

Yes. If I didn't make the curves in the $ much shorter.