Everybody loves to draw ampersands, right? You can have fun with the tail of the Q. And a lower case a, easy or difficult, is probably one of the purer examples of a typeface's character. But some glyphs are just a drag. My own pet peeve is the radical; it's seldom used in most typefaces, and it never looks nice to me. I always put it off to last. What do you hate to draw?
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I find the tilde really frustrating.
It's too bad the Icelanders never adopted a convention like simply putting a crossbar on a lowercase d. It would even be logically consistent with the cap Eth.
For some reason I hate drawing numbers. Spacing them is worse.
Drawing the eth is fun.
You hate figures, Jackson? To me, they're... dessert. But I've always hated, once I think I've got them right, having to go back and redo them for superiors, inferiors, and so forth. And who enjoys yanking the one around to make it wide enough for one.tf? Never quite works, anyhow.
Jan, I think we should petition the Unicode consortium to officially change the glyph's name from currency to louse.
In cyrillic, the lowercase be (б) usually takes forever to get right.
In greek, several of the lowercase letters give me grief, but the delta (δ) is probably the worst.
In regards to a more standard characterset, I’ve convinced myself that I don’t like drawing the x.
Looking at font sales, this is the least individually-bought style.
Sure, people who actually use it will probably get it in the family pack, but I sometimes wonder if it really makes business sense to put so much effort into producing something most people who like a typeface enough to licence, won’t get.
Of course, unlike a mandala, when I wake up the next day, I see my horribly-drawn R again. I need a script to just remove glyphs overnight.
Sigh.
Typographers, on the other hand, seem to value other things in a typeface besides family size, beautiful small caps for instance, or various sorts of numerals, stylistic sets etc. I like to think that it's those people we design for.
There seems to be a vague consensus that angles are, broadly speaking, less fun than curves. Is there anyone here who flat-out loves drawing Xs and Ks?
Lucas, at first I read "will draw numbers instead of doing the dishes" as "will draw numbers instead of doing the dashes." And, come to think of it, dashes and hyphens are annoying, too. Easy, but boring, and seldom gorgeous even if you do them right.
This may be partly because computer screen geometry is rectilinear.
The slanted sidebearings option in some font editors (Glyphs, RoboFont) help with this. What would be really cool would be tools (shape primitives, pens, selection tools, etc.) that behaved as if the whole grid space were slanted. Maybe even include optical corrections to compensate for the common slanting problems. Seems doable.