A New Font

**Tabian** · 15 February 2016, 09:25 AM

Hi Ron, it's been some time since I was here at TG.
I have been a sign writer all my life, starting long before the days of computers when we had to learn how to draw our lettering before we could paint it (a skill I sill have to this day). Quite a number of years ago I worked at a sign writers in Morecombe Lancashire and they always did their capital "K" with a bent leg rather like the leg of an "R" in Helvetica. I was a purist and found this most annoying, however looking at the font that you are creating I feel that your capital letter K may benefit from being flipped over vertically. I was going to mention the letter "B" but ss-kalm beat me to it.
All in all it's looking good to me...

**Ron Duke** · 15 February 2016, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Tabian

Hi Ron, it's been some time since I was here at TG.
I have been a sign writer all my life, starting long before the days of computers when we had to learn how to draw our lettering before we could paint it (a skill I sill have to this day). Quite a number of years ago I worked at a sign writers in Morecombe Lancashire and they always did their capital "K" with a bent leg rather like the leg of an "R" in Helvetica. I was a purist and found this most annoying, however looking at the font that you are creating I feel that your capital letter K may benefit from being flipped over vertically. I was going to mention the letter "B" but ss-kalm beat me to it.
All in all it's looking good to me...

Thanks Tabian! What a great suggestion! I really appreciate that!

**wizard509** · 15 February 2016, 02:45 PM

Don't know for sure Ron but maybe thr bottom leg of the K could be more like the R which mitht5 make it appear5 a but wuder, also the W seems a bit narrow.

**Ron Duke** · 16 February 2016, 01:31 AM

Thanks Larry. I'll re-check those.

**Ron Duke** · 16 February 2016, 02:37 PM

Here are changes to the K, k, H, S, T, and M. Checked widths and spacing. On measuring the W looks narrower but isn't. It's an optical allusion.

**mwenz** · 16 February 2016, 03:13 PM

Getting really nice, Ron.

I would recommend a bit tighter letter spacing by setting either the right side bearing closer to the right side of the characters, or the characters themselves closer to the LSB and then moving the RSB. Not knowing where the characters are sitting between them I don't know really which to recommend. Then, if you have already kernel the font you would need to redo it.

I would also recommend narrowing the space character too.

**Ron Duke** · 16 February 2016, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by mwenz

Getting really nice, Ron.

I would recommend a bit tighter letter spacing by setting either the right side bearing closer to the right side of the characters, or the characters themselves closer to the LSB and then moving the RSB. Not knowing where the characters are sitting between them I don't know really which to recommend. Then, if you have already kernel the font you would need to redo it.

I would also recommend narrowing the space character too.

Actually Mike, the whole idea was to gap out the glyphs.

Post #12 shows how I'm going to use the font to make copying my work more difficult.
Attached is another shot of the font on one of my drawings.

Thanks