Hi TypeDrawers!
Back in 2017, your feedback was extremely helpful. Almost a year passed, I’ve learned a lot and completely rebuild and redesigned my font. I changed it so much, so I gave it a different name.
Please review my new font "Manrope"

What’ve been improved:
1. Interpolations: 6 major weights
2. Improved Cyrillics and extended Latin
3. Geometric digits
4. Case sensitive
5. Ligatures, Icon ligatures, auto-apostrophe
6. Better hinting for pixel alignment
The fonts I was inspired by: Eina, Maison Neue, Circular, GTWalsheim


License:
SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is available with an FAQ at
http://scripts.sil.org/OFLYou can download it on Github:
https://github.com/sharanda/manropeThank you!
Comments
There are some issues concerning Bulgarian Cyrillic in Manrope. Bulgarian Cyrillic is defined with:
feature locl {
script cyrl
language BGR exclude_dflt;
sub @locl1 by @locl2;
} locl;
1. It's needed uni045D to be included in @locl1 and substituted with a uni045D.loclBGR (ѝ) in @locl2 (when custumer switches to Bulgarian language).
2. The design of all loclBGR glyphs is just the same as for the international Cyrillic glyphs. It means that actually there are not local forms for Bulgarian Cyrillic.
3. It's a good idea SS01 to be included as an opption for switching between international Cyrillic and Bulgarian Cyrillic.
This is a pretty good start but I took a look at your drawings and I think you can do better.
- Firstly, you have very little optical compensation for horizontal strokes. Horizontal strokes appear thicker to our eyes than vertical ones, as a result you can't use the same units. For instance, your L currently looks thicker on the baseline than it does on the stem because both segments are exactly the same thickness. If you take it down a few units (5-8 in your bold weight) horizontally, you will see the difference, particularly at smaller sizes
- Secondly, your drawings are full of lumps. Did you draw this directly in glyphs or did you import this from illustrator? There are a few good tutorials on drawing good paths, including Glyphs' own which will show you how to place your handles to achieve smoother curves. The Glyphs extension "Red Arrow" might help you find what's wrong (along with SpeedPunk). I've taken a couple minutes to tweak your bold lowercase a for example:
This is your drawing
This is the cleaned up version
You can see that my version has fewer points and the outside of the bowl for instance doesn't have that bump. Same for the inside counter, its bottom feels like it's curving at an angle. (below)
This is the cleaned up version. Although probably not perfect since it's just a few minutes work, you can see the curves feel smoother.
I hope this is helpful.
Best,
Mathieu
I will look closer into each comment in a few days.
/lslash: oh, yes. Very incorrect. Thanks. Does it look good now?
In the rest... I couldn't find direct issues. Also, wasn't sure which thickness has a problem. But I noted to double check in the future.
2. Yup. How you fixed it, it's exactly how it was in the beginning. But sometimes, shapes are too different between instances, such as: a, s, o, n. You need just a couple minutes to fix it in one glyph, but I spent too much time making sure instances also look correct... I will give it one more try once I have more free time.
Thank you for the feedback. Sadly, this part isn't very easy to fix. I redrawn /a and arch in /n like countless times (/s letter as well)... Every time I add more air to the top, something else looks unbalanced. I think I'm happy with the current version. Maybe I need some time to actually see how to improve it.
Thank you. I'm afraid this is the biggest issue so far. I will try to provide an update within this week.
- /e adjusted thickness, fixed hinting and tail curve
- Adjusted thickness: /м /x /X /ß /β /W /s
- Adjusted kerning: between /I and /T, /k & /s
- /I glyph width adjusted
- /parenleft, /parenright, /bracketleft, /bracketright made higher and re-aligned (to fit most cases by default)
- All digits made as tabular figures
- The slash glyph in /Lslash /lslash is made shorter and adjusted
- Wrong position of arc in /m;
- Kerning in /lslash;
- Bulgarian Cyrillic to more local;
- Vertical alignment in /parenleft /parenright coming with digit alone;
- Horizontal /comb alignments in extended Cyrillic;
- Baseline height in T, H, L, E, Ш, etc...
- Inconsistent thickness of /eth
https://github.com/sharanda/manropev 1.002, July 13. Fixed:
v 1.001, July 10. Fixed:
Or direct download link: http://gent.media/assets/fonts/manrope/manrope.zip