About under- and overshoot:
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for under- and overshoot is it better to have the same values (eg. baseline -16, x-height +16)?
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for uppercase and lowercase is it better to have the same undershoot values? Because in some fonts I have found for example that the uppercase is 0 / -16 and the lowercase 0 / -12. Could this result in an apparent imperfect horizontal alignment?
3.
For ascenders isn't a tighter overshoot enough?
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In general, is there a way to calculate the under- and overshoot in an absolute sense? I mean: how to decide if the most appropriate value for a given font is 12, or 14, or even 16, etc.?
Thank you!
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In metal and phototype, one sees more fine tuned optical alignment, notably in some of Adrian Frutiger’s designs in which flat horizontal strokes as in Zz actually sit below the cap/x-height and above the baseline. I usually align the crossbar of f and t below the x-height for the same optical reason.
But, from the image I am attaching, is it possible to understand if your expert eye does not find the overshoot of lowercase letters too narrow?
The placement of ` on è seems a bit off. I'd move it to the left a bit. And the tittles could go up a bit, I think. Okay I'll stop, please excuse my unsolicited advice
I recheck the alignment on the baseline (the case of | o | and | z | reported to me by @cristóbalhenestrosa.
This is intended to be a text face font, like serifs in general, intended to be printed as well, and not only displayed for example as .pdf.
For accents, @jasperdewaard is right, but the bad accent placement comes from the fact that I switched to the anchor method (it'clear I'm not a font designer, I learn progressively as I do things ...) and postponed the retouching until the base glyph has a definite shape.
One last consideration: Garamonds (Premiere, EB, ...) generally turn out quite small in 12pt print. This is already slightly larger. Does it make sense to increase the size a bit more, with printing as a destination?
Thank you so much for the very useful comments
PS
In a few days I will post a more complete specimen of the Roman in the appropriate section of the site