When I was reading about spacing of various kinds of fonts. I got to know about grid test. It was very little information.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
AND SO ON...........
This is sample grid test. I wanted to know more about this kind of tests for collections. (proper credits will be given)
1. Could you help me to get more information about grid test?
2. What other tests do you perform to proof your typeface? What is the purpose of those tests?
3. Can you suggest more reading material on spacing the typefaces? (Books/articles/videos)
Your input would be incredibly valuable to me, Thank you!
Comments
HAHBCHDHEHFHGHHHIHJHKHLHMH...
Latin lowercase is a little more complicated because there are no purely symmetrical letter shapes like H, so any glyph might require kerning on one side in combination with at least some others, depending on the design. Further, one ideally wants the key glyph to be something with a counter and not, say, i or l, so that spacing can be considered relatively to width and proportion of the counter. So I typically do two tests:
iaibicidieifigihiiijikilimi...
and
nanbncndnenfngnhninjnknlnmn...
with the caveat that when you get to the diagonal letters at the end of the alphabet some of these might kern to the right side of i or n.
For other scripts, I try to find similar key glyphs. Usually this is possible, but occasionally I do spacing tests between simple uprights as a way to check for optical centering of each glyph:
|𑄇|𑄈|𑄉|𑄊|𑄋|𑄌|𑄍|𑄎|𑄏|𑄐|𑄑|...
|ಕ|ಖ|ಗ|ಘ|ಙ|ಚ|ಛ|ಜ|ಝ|ಞ|ಟ|...
nuanubnucnudnuenufnugnuhnuinujnuknulnumnu...