This had a fraught life. I had the lower case half-constructed, saving all the way, when I entered server-disconnect hell and lost it all. Once more with feeling. I should have been working on the upper case at the same time, to make sure it was doable.
It possibly is doable, but I can't face it just now.
Ah, intaglio – who’s style is unmistakable. While capitals might seem impossible here – they may yet prove to you, “I’m possible, dear.” Have a go, and another. From one fontstructor to you, my brother. :)
This looks beautiful. I hope you'll find the caps. If I give 10/10 now I have to ask FS for a medal system to be allocated for special designs, and to have that available when you have those reluctant caps.
Thank you everybody for your kind comments. I either have to make everything in the caps conform to the D option, which would make the B, E, F, L etc at least do-able, or I have to stick with the O shape for conformity, which makes the mentioned glyphs a sticky problem.
I picked a rather fuller width for some of the l/c glyphs so that the x wouldn't appear too wide; perhaps I should trim them back and let the x appear a little wider than it should be. The a, particularly, irks me in its present form.
Typography has an inexorable logic to it which is by turns delightful and awful. Delightful when logic creates a sense of beauty and order; awful when decisions made in the inception come back to bite you.
That's the maddening charm of it.
For instance, these angles rather determine the width of the letter because I can't make composites of them, being composites already. So there's a disparity between the upper and lower case versions.
"Typography has an inexorable logic to it which is by turns delightful and awful. It's delightful when logic creates a sense of beauty and order; awful when decisions made in the inception come back to bite you. That's the maddening charm of it."
You speak with really true words IMHO...
Try this micro-adjustment for the shoulder of your S. Please note also the three arrows indicating: 1) a composite allowing you half-brick variance; 2) suggestion to raise the spine by half a brick; 3) adjusting the left side bearing by shifting the character one brick to the left.
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It possibly is doable, but I can't face it just now.
I picked a rather fuller width for some of the l/c glyphs so that the x wouldn't appear too wide; perhaps I should trim them back and let the x appear a little wider than it should be. The a, particularly, irks me in its present form.
That's the maddening charm of it.
You speak with really true words IMHO...
Some times I think we stand too close to our designs and worry about things that others probably won't notice.
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