TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

[Gare]

Frances—

As you assign glyphs to be traced, you should probably ask a member to see how the characters go together. Example: the dotcom glyph you have is great. How does it read at the end of a word? Kerning is a post-production thing, but how the letterforms actually go together is virgin territory for this group. The Burgeon typeface was a ding set, and as such, the gylphs didn't need to relate to their neighbors when typed.

My Best,

Gary

[Fred C]

...you should probably ask a member to see how the characters go together....Gary

With this in mind, I opened the character set Christine provided here: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...068#post439068

This may NOT be the final version, but quite few are not very accurate (too wide or narrow) and some are very wrong and the 'look' of several characters is off.. I know this font is called 'Roundhead', but I interpret the corners as very slightly rounded or almost sharp. Am I missing something?

[angelize]

I'll take another look at the dot com symbol I did, and make some changes.

[angelize]

Fred: How about this could you redo the glyphs you think need redoing? As for the name of the font I believe the name is from Gary's book and it sounds fine to me

[Gare]

The font's name "Roundhead", I'm guessing refers to the rounded tops of the characters.

It was the name as the legend at the bottom of the Linotype 1904 Specimen book.





Fred, I think that as a member of tg with a keen artistic eye, you should treat Frances' comment as an open invitation (not a challenge) to make the group collaboration as professional as it can be.

Mike and others have come on board and we enjoy the back and fourths and to have a goal larger than just chatting on this thread.

Not that any of us mind just chatting,
Gary