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Re: Maintaining Contrast and Weight across Upright and Italics
Yep, you need to compensate; slanting makes strokes look thicker. Plus, italics are usually lighter also for historical reasons -- romans were held with a pen at about a 30ᵒ angle, but italics were h…1 -
Re: Synthium Display
Great look and feel, that rounded rectangle thing. Geometrical shapes are surprisingly difficult to work with, and you're rapidly learning a host of subtle techniques, adding motion and grace. Your p…2 -
Re: Export old-style non-OpenType "kern" table
How recent for LibreOffice? 5.0.2.2 x64 for Windows definitely doesn’t use OT kerning: Bummer. Got my hopes up, ya know? Same results when using a dummy dsig (“Gentium Bis,” I named the resulting var…1 -
Re: Why FontCreator hardly used by professionals?
Because quadratic Béziers blow. Just kidding. Mostly. Ha-ha only serious. Better answer: basically, it's about the types of curves you can create and how easy they are to work with. I'll try to expla…8 -
Re: "Ethos" — First try at font making
I agree with James. I'd like to see more variety in letter widths, and it definitely needs much more in the way of optical compensation and lightening of joins, but this is an excellent beginning. We…1
