TG font collaboration #2 Roundhead

[Purrfeck]

Hi Angelize your dot com looks great! Everyone is doing a fabulous job too. I am willing to do the things Barbara asked for provided I'm not treading on anyone's toes! unless you have another idea of whats needed as you are further along now...

[Gare]

think I might say with a degree of safety that Barbara is trying to encourage participation while at the same time mindful that she is not a Moderator on the typography forum, and neither am I.

Frances, you can Christine should micro-manage this Roundhead typeface, right? Let Michele know what you think you need, and that's that.

Carry on!

-g-

[angelize]

Frances, you can Christine should micro-manage this Roundhead typeface, right?

Ok I am sure this a typo but I'm not sure if you meant " you and Christine..." or "you understand Christine..." either way I am fine and do understand.

I am just a little over enthusiastic sometimes

[Christine Farrelly]

Frances - I hate to say this but I would have to disagree with your choice for &, @ and # symbols. If this is to be a really usable font it would need to have more regular symbols.

Can we have other opinions please? Thats not to say that these couldn't be included in the extra characters of an OTF font.

Michele - perhaps you could have a go at the $,£ and euro symbols.

Christine

[angelize]

Rather than having them as extra characters of an OTF which is not supported by Xara would be possible to map them to keyboard symbols that are usable in Xara programs?

Full support for open type fonts is something that has been asked for on the forums but I don't think we will be seeing it anytime soon, providing regular keyboard access, even if it has to be an Alt +numberpad code to these extra glyphs would be better IMO at least.

[Christine Farrelly]

That sounds fine - I'll look at doing the regular ones for these.

Christine

[wizard509]

Christine I'm doing the punctuation. Have it part way done.

[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?

[Fred C]

Here's my lowercase and numbers. I will send a newer version of my Caps (nodes reduced/optimized) as soom as I can, hopefully this evening.

Regards to all,