Please excuse the X. He badly needs to go for a pee.

Thanks, aphoria. I'm going to start my next alphabet with xyz. I don't know why I haven't adhered to that from a long time ago. Wishful thinking, I guess. You know, maybe the problem is going to magically go away by the time you get to x.

Madness: repeating the same behaviour in the expectation of achieving a different outcome.

A plea to Admin: how about taking the site offline for a while and fixing the server issues properly?

I'd rather that than experience too much more of the unable-to-save glitch. Anything but that!

Good job I made a screen capture of the punctuation before I exited. I just had an inkling... the minisaves weren't working...

@thal: ha! you're on. As a matter of fact I was coming to the self-same conclusion. Just what a completely standard font is in Fontstruct -- that's the question, isn't it!

It's what I admire about some of the top-notch designs I see being released here. Beautifully thought-out and executed alphabets that follow the canon, yet have personality.

@frodo7: thanks, I must say I was pleased myself with the l/c a and the g. A tight double-bowl at this weight and with such severe curve-cuts is always a dodgy proposition.

@thalamic: it's remarkable how hard it is to resist the temptation to intagliate but the more I resist, the better the fonts get. Doh.

Attempting to rise to your challenge (through gritted teeth) I'm working on this little number.

I've taken a lot more care than I usually do to make sure everything is as tidy as I can make it (where the bricks fall on the grid, widths, etc) and so far, touch forehead, everything seems just so -- with the exception of the s which falls victim to the over-generous "curve" segments.

Ive done it on a truly gargantuan scale which I hope is not going to be a file-size problem later on. I've done so because if I decide to strike a reg,bold and black, (hah hah! he's dreaming!) I need plenty of headroom in what will become tight intersects to pull it off.

Comments welcomed (from anyone else too). I shall listen very nicely and then try not to go out and do precisely what I want.

p.s. I realize the spacing is a little off. No point finessing it until I've got the dreaded upper case done.

OK I shall do those. I'll park the present k,x,y,z somewhere so I can always go back. I can see the inconsistency of those with a straight-edged v and w. More or less OK in a super light face, but could become problematical in a bold. The upper case will be a struggle -- maybe insurmountable -- if I don't keep those forms, however.

As for the s: usually I tighten the bowls for letters with stems like b,p,d etc. This time I've got the same thing going over the whole lot, which adds a certain overall look. If you think it's ok to tighten up just the s I'll try that. I guess what's important is maintaining a balance between "look" and obedience to the mechanics of construction. That's where the art is, n'est?

As for a bold... !! We'll see if I can master my impatience with doing the same stuff twice, shall we! Not that it is, of course. It might as well be a completely different beast. All the sweat and work with only the (to me!) tiny advantage of extended usefulness. Ugh.

I might ditch the "seriflets", too. I know they'll give me grief. What do you think?

Thanks for your interest, shasta. Here's a screen capture of progress so far.

I fully intended to rise to thalamic's challenge of a completely quirkless, standard font. But I started out wrong by using diagonals for the A, Vv, Ww, etc. Eventually I'll press on with a ruthlessly rational version but in the meantime I'm fed up with it. (It bores me.) Meanwhile this one is full of the usual intagliana, for better or worse. It's a hairline and I'm trying to strike a light and a regular off it, but I'll probably run out of steam long before I get to a bold.

Ooops! Spelling mistrake in the sampler. No l/c x.