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Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Really Cool stuff. I'd maybe look at the letter spacing. Especially the SPACE key. Although you've not got much to play with at that size.

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks nippa. I increased the space by 1 unit.

Comment from afrojet

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is a wonderfully evolving mash-up GF. I see so many recognizable typefaces in the DNA, and yet it still maintains a unique originality.

Comment from p2pnut

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Such elegance with so few bricks. I gave it 10 for its stylish form ... but agreed with nippa about the spacing. Hope you don't think I'm being too forward, but I took a clone and played with the spacing. I took all glyphs to the right of the left line and brought the letter width line tight to the right of each glyph. I then set the Global Spacing to .6 the following are the results:-

Comment from p2pnut

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Comment from p2pnut

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry for double post :-( I had set it for the next image, but it repeated the first. Going to try one more time (perhaps you would be kind enough to delete the 'spare' A.

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just thought the 'm' needed closing up, and space key widening But you've corrected all that. Looks spot on now, although "fi" combo is a bit ugly. Don't know what to suggest to help out with that one. Sorry P2put, your 'new' spacing is all over the shop, I much prefer Gferreira's.

Comment from will.i.ૐ

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well, an ﬁ ligature, of course! Oh, right – how to do that. Hmm, different approaches to matching up the ascender height with the dot (and the ffi to consider). Here’s one: