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Re: The cooper black treatment...on a blackletter. Looking for your input.
I like it! /T seems light. My eye gets hung up on /h. Tittles feel flattened. Asterisk may be too geometric. Are /s and maybe /m too wide? And regular /A and /M look wide also. /G looks too /C-like.3 -
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 small an…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
