TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

**Fred C** · 16 May 2012, 03:52 PM

Hi Bill, Gare, all,

I'm not sure what portion of my offerings made it into the package. What do you need from me?

Is the correct template the one in Bill's post #240?

Some comments on Bill's red redesigns (also post #240) and Gary's post #239...It looks like Bill has eliminated the overshoot and Gary has resized the G without any overshoot. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ty...Line_Terms.svg) Seems those changes mess with the character of the original font. The original also had a bit of look of a "ransom note". Is our goal to remove the quirkiness and clean it to perfection?

**Gare** · 16 May 2012, 04:03 PM

Hi Fred—

This is my take and not necessarily that of The Management:

We should collectively strive for a consistency between characters, especially the verticals.

RoundHead, when used, produces sentence that don't look either right or quirky, because the stems have to be of absolutely the same width when these stems parts reappear as parts of other characters.

You know, ultimately, Bill is the Captain of this ship, and he says he;ll be away for a while. It might be better to push the Pause button on this font until his leadership returns.

-g-

**wizard509** · 16 May 2012, 05:09 PM

I have a question. I have done the punctuation over 3 or 4 times and at this point I'm still not sure how the brackets should be aligned nor the width. Any feedback would be appreciated. I have tried to do what I thought should be right but it doesn't seem to fit the mold, so at this point I'm stuck.

**angelize** · 16 May 2012, 06:01 PM

Just to let you all know I am working on my glyphs, but I'll be a day or two before I get them posted.

**Soquili** · 17 May 2012, 04:18 AM

Fred the red letters in the template are only suggestions as I stated in the thread that contains the template.

Larry the square brackets should be the same have the same stem width as a capital letter and the same height. In the template file you will find a right hand parenthises as an example.

The attached .zip file contains a png of Gary's original image of the Roundhead sample sheet page. I have used an application that uses an s-spline algorithm to enlarge the image and sharpen the outlines. I hope this may help everyone.

**wizard509** · 17 May 2012, 03:00 PM

Thanks Bill, I did note the example parenthesis example. It looks like it was on the base line and in my mind at least they should be somewhat longer then the capital height and descender, and centered which makes them not fit the template. So please someone tell me I'm wrong. I hope I'm making sense.