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Re: I started work on a 19th century French Didot style font
I am fine with overlapping serifs in display type. They might cause trouble when people apply strokes, though – check for that in Illustrator and other such apps. It might not be what you’d want to s…2 -
Re: I started work on a 19th century French Didot style font
The P and R are very high-waisted, and I think need to be lowered a bit – I also think their bowls are too wide. Not much, but they feel bulky and like from a different family. Which serifs are you a…1 -
Re: I started work on a 19th century French Didot style font
Your thin lines are all different weights. Some of your round outside shapes are relatively square-shouldered, but some are a lot rounded: compare C/G to D/O. Your P and R are strangely proportioned.…1 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
The ‘brother’ relationship logic in Latin Plus is something that either Frode or I brought up with Underware late last year. I still don’t fully understand the point of it, but it just makes a sort …2 -
Re: Stressed ij digraph — Best practice?
I have never, as a native reader, misread a collation of /f/i and /i/j as anything else than ‘fij’. I think the significant difference with the Turkish i is ignored here: we don’t have a dotless i, s…2
