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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: Finished the first draft of my first ever font. Require critique
First issue to address is the spacing (not kerning—that comes last—but setting good side bearings). https://www.fontsmith.com/blog/2018/02/05/how-to-space-a-typeface1 -
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 sma…2 -
Re: A newbie’s attempt at a serif typeface... Please be nice, but not too nice
I dislike the diamond periods/tittles. That shape works better in typefaces with more humanist stress in my opinion. /E and /L feel narrow to me. Ear of /g may be too timid.1 -
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 thi…7
