TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

[angelize]

That sounds good to me Gary.

The exclamation mark and the question mark again don't look quite right with the lower case letters, how ever they do look fine with the UC. Not sure if this one is fixable? Unless lowercase friendly versions could be mapped to un-used spots?

single and double quotes seem a little too high for lowercase letters, would these be better aligned to lower case? On this one I'm not sure

[mwenz]

Want all of my 30-seconds of thought on the baseline alignment issue? Seeing how I cannot hear the screams of No!, here tis.

I don't know whether there is actually a single baseline but the LC characters are raised above it, or if the UC are lowered from the font's baseline, or ? So take the following as it is: comments from a place of ignorance concerning this font's construction.

If I were making this font, I would place all LC letters on the font's baseline. I would align all punctuation in relation to the LC characters.

But here is where I don't know how the two "baselines" were incorporated. I would opt to have the UC characters' bottoms align near (or at) the descender location.

Now resuming my hiding...Mike

[Gare]

Want all of my 30-seconds of thought on the baseline alignment issue? Seeing how I cannot hear the screams of No!, here tis.

I don't know whether there is actually a single baseline but the LC characters are raised above it, or if the UC are lowered from the font's baseline, or ? So take the following as it is: comments from a place of ignorance concerning this font's construction.

If I were making this font, I would place all LC letters on the font's baseline. I would align all punctuation in relation to the LC characters.

But here is where I don't know how the two "baselines" were incorporated. I would opt to have the UC characters' bottoms align near (or at) the descender location.

Now resuming my hiding...Mike

Can we see an example, Mike?

Can you tear up a line of text in Xara, using the baseline adjustments?

-g-

[mwenz]

Hi Gary,

Actually, I *thought* what I was suggesting was what you are showing in the image you added--we might have been responding at the same time:

http://www.talkgraphics.com/attachme...1&d=1335736754

Take care, Mike

[Gare]

Okay, got it.

If anyone/everyone can chill for 24 hours, I'll align the cap heights to the character heights, and then see how the punctuations fall.



-g-

[angelize]

That sounds good to me.

So far we have releases from Bill, Gary, Larry, and I If you helped in anyway we need your release

[Barbara B]

In answer to your question - yes all releases need to be in before the font can be released. In the future is probably a good idea to have folks submit a release at the beginning of the project rather than at the end. See -- we'll get a system going yet to make the paperworkish stuff easy peasy so we can concentrate on the fun stuff.

[Gare]

Let me see if all the punctuations you're talking about here can't be moved to lowercase baseline alignment.

I'm supposing we don't quite have a font yet, eh?

And no, I advise against adding characters to accommodate uppercase punctuation.

First, that is amateurish design. Second, it won't work unless you're prepared to get rid of some characters.

Why not call "time out" right now and gather opinions on how to move this to the finish line, Frances.

But don't "cope". Think it out. Perhaps all the caps would look good aligned to a cap height consistent with the character height of some of the l/c characters such as "t", "l" and so on...



Just a thought. It would solve some problems, and it's sort of a fresh 'n' funky look.

-g-

[Soquili]

Thanks Gary that sounds perfect. The ChangeLog.txt is attached.

Frances the exclamation mark and question mark are typically the same size as the uppercase characters. That is how they are within the existing fonts Gary has post.