Tainted Sans - a homage to cassette futurism (my first font)

DeadLettering

So I have only started on my type design journey and after doing the Viktor Baltus course I had a couple of friends ask me if I could take a piece of lettering I did recently and turn it into a display font.



As I worked to expand and evolve it, I was inspired by cassette futurism, Y2K, and cyberpunk.  Movies like Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars (especially the ligatures within the logo), as well as games like Wipeout (and the designers republic as a whole) were also some of my inspirations. 

This in turn evolved into the font on the pdf. The key concept to me was that the sans serif should look as connected as possible, a kind of sans script.

The circles in the an and e came about when I noticed an issue with my æ, as the old a made glyph look like œ). This I in turn carried into the s. 

Though some legibility problems remain. One suggestion I got was to include ink traps (which made it look even more like the wipeout logo).


Which I think works and also serves to make each letter in the ligatures more recognisable. But I am still on the fence about it.



I am also contemplating put a dot in the circle of the o to make it more consistent with the a and the e. Which also allows me to do a fun ligature with the capital O and the word Off. 


Another issue I am aware of is tapering the arches of the h, n, m (as the joins with the stem look swollen). Though I am not sure how much I need to taper them atm.

I apologise if this post seems rambling with lots of disconnected questions. I am very new to this, and any advice would be amazing.

P.S. The weird glyphs in the pdf are Galactic Standard from the Commander Keen games. It was a stylistic alternate I wanted to include.