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Re: Humanity sans – An attempt to create a humanist sans serif
Work on smoothing out the transitions from straight to curved in /B/D/P/R/. Period and comma/quote shapes feel like they're from another font. "x-height" of oldstyle figures is too small an…2 -
Re: Humanity sans – An attempt to create a humanist sans serif
Not true. Emboldening the capital strokes is a nearly universal convention actually. In my copy of Gill Sans, for example, the stem weight of the /H is 200 units and that of the /h 182 units. This d…7 -
Re: Regular and italic with the same character widths
Your eye needs to be the guide. Do it the same way you'd space any font: establish control characters (/n/o/H/O) with good spacing first; then put other letters in the midst of those to set spacing; …2 -
Re: Regular and italic with the same character widths
It won't make the spacing of the italic easier, it will make it harder, because you're introducing an additional arbitrary constraint to have to satisfy. I don't really follow why this would require…7 -
Re: Regular and italic with the same character widths
Why do you want to do that?1
