Should curved strokes end at the same height?

Ori Ben-Dor
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These are taken from a Hebrew typeface I'm working on, so there are no Latin letters. Anyhow, notice the inconsistency in the curved strokes: each ends at a different height. Would you say that's a problem?




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No, it's not a problem. These glyphs have very different internal white spaces and require different degrees of intrusion by those curved strokes to look balanced.
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Well, luckily the euro and the dollar signs aren't likely to follow each other as they do here, but suppose they were (or imagine they were C and S), doesn't it look bad that their strokes end almost at the same height but not exactly?0
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Basically it's a matter of thresholds: when they're close "enough", snap them; but don't make that an objective of itself.2
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Sounds like a reasonable approach, thanks. Would you snap my euro/dollar signs, for example?0
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Yes. If I didn't make the curves in the $ much shorter.2
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