TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

[Gare]

Yes, I can see that Bill has already generated an upside-down question mark by re-referencing the original question mark.

They're more or less "clones" Frances, of the originals that accents can be added to. Ensures character consistency and brings down the saved file size.

Here's two things that might or might not need to be corrected: First, it might be my imagination, but the upper cases look to be a tad heavier than the lower cases.

And (I was doing font kerning when I saw this): does anyone feel that lower case "z" has a transverse stroke that's artistically incompatible with the transverse angles of the other lowercase characters? And is it too wide compared to the other lower case letters?

You sometimes see this stuff when working with pangram sentences to work on kerning.



Might just be me...

[mwenz]

Looks like the lowercase z could simply be rotated around instead of actually reworking it. Maybe squished a bit horizontally after rotating it if needed.

Yep, the main vertical stroke of the L needs narrowed.

Mike

[Gare]

Okay, if the uppercase width is a problem, I got a real simple solution. I can batch shrink all the uppercase in FontLab by perhaps 1% and that will probably get all the uppercase "thinner" without much fuss and without making them significantly shorter.

I'm bringing this up so no one has to do any apologizing for the typeface later.

No excuses, right?

-g-

[Soquili]

Right.

[Gare]

Bill—

If you want me to do this, cool.

But if you'd like to shake the cobwebs off FontLab:

1. You Shift+select all the uppercase glyphs.

2. Tools>Transform Range.
Transform works, too, but there is a preview option in Transform Range.

3. In the Transform dialog, Contour>Scale. Click it to the right column to select it.

4. Click the blue highlighted entry at right (this part makes no UI sense!), to get the Current Action fields to show.

5. Click Proportional Scale and then it's anyone's guess how thinner the capital letters need to be. 1%? Will any member measure precisely for this, please?

6. Click the Preview Panel basically to make you feel better through faux reassurance, and then click Run the program, but let it do a quick save before continuing.

This will yield smaller fonts the were selected, but the sidebearings and baseline will have remained constant. No need to worry about that.

-g-

[Soquili]

Thanks for the steps Gary. I will give it a try.

[Soquili]

I have a question! Well actually it is more like four questions.

Please look at the attached image and tell me if the copyright symbol should be larger or smaller and if it should be positioned higher or lower within it's area.

[wizard509]

I feel like it should be lower.

[mwenz]

Hello Bill,

It should be the same height from the baseline as the TM symbol. That said, I have seen a font that had both the (c) and TM symbols at the baseline and it looks nice. Nice enough I have lowered them for certain applications.

Take care, Mike

[Soquili]

Thanks Larry and Mike. The © is the same height as an uppercase letter in many fonts and aligned to the baseline and centrally within the font area. However it looked interesting at the size shown in my previous post. Being a collaborative effort we should get a concensus of all the participants.