First Font: Clean Vintage Signage-Inspired Display

jeremy.t.hamann

Hello there!

I've been having a blast working on my first font, but I would appreciate opinions from some fresh eyes. Overall I'm really happy with it, but it being my first stab at type design, feel free to open my eyes to my inexperience!
 
A couple of things I'm running into:

• I've been playing around with two lowercase b/d/p/q versions, part of me wants to go with the lowest quick brown fox version below to connect more to their uppercase counterparts, but in lowercase I feel like those letters just want to be curved with an overshoot... I go back and forth
• I'm also struggling to know what level of optical corrections to make between the uppercase and lowercase glyphs. Sometimes the lowercases feel too bold. Sometimes they feel just fine.

PDF proof also attached. Still just working on letterforms, I set side bearings but haven't gotten to kerning yet.

Thank you for your time!!