First of all I would like to say that I'm very happy to have found this forum! I'm a graphic designer and as a big fan of typography I thought it would be nice to try and make a "generic" sans serif roughly based on some sketches that I made just to get some experience dealing with shapes, visual compensations and font making apps. As a total begginer in typography making I would really like to hear your opinions about it! I'm still strugling with the kerning so I would like to ask you guys what techniques or software do you usually use to do it.( the name Ethos is totally random so if you have cool ideas for that I'm all ears )
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The crossbar on ð is too light. The ring accent on å is too light and too round – you’ll want to make it have roughly the same shape as the /o. Your tilde is very shallow, and the vertical alignment on the diacritics in general is very uneven. The /r feels very much like you cut apart an /n. That’s a good start, but it’s not enough – lower the joint and try to even out the curvature of the arm.
Looking at the lowercase, it seems you could give a slight redux to your vertical stems (so c which doesn't have a vstem wouldn't look thinner than a, b, d – for instance).
The ear of the g is clearly way to small here (it could eventually work in a design where other letters have small parts to echo this but in a rather DIN-like design this is a no-go). The foot of the j is clearly too long, also you gave it too much sidebearings it seems (I think it could work with same sidebearing as i in this case given some redux of the foot). The k suffers from the same problem as its capital counterpart. Do you use all the same vertical stem for h, m, n? It should be the case. r is not correct as Rob mentioned already. w seems too wide, too thin on the middle, too contrasted on the sides. x has the same problems as its capital counterpart and the optical correction is done in the wrong direction – it should be made like this:
http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/images/myriad-x.png
Numbers could use some work as well.