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by intaglio
see also Plain James Bold by intaglio
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Those stacks are a blessing when you need them (hello, williaum), but 8 stacks per character...wow, that requires the patience of a saint. (See if you can find the song 'Patience of a Saint' by a band called 'Electronic'.)
This is probably your most conventional outings of late. Yet there are still plenty of Inti to see here. :) I don't know if you aware of them but I can even spot them now. Let's see: the tyrannosaur arm of the G (so cute! :), the bottom serif on the Y, and the double angle center of the 'm'.
Don't remove yourself from the font. Helvetica already exist. No need to recreate that. It's much more interesting and exciting to see what you can do rather than how close you can come to ubiquity. I have a feeling you are trying to forge the fontstruct steel into the typeface you have in your head, and I also suspect you are getting closer and closer to realizing your vision. You have originality--Go with it!
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Yes... I was being ironic in my reference to Helvetica. I don't think I could ever come up with a font that was at once so classically beautiful and yet so uncompromisingly severe.
Thanks for the encouragement. It certainly helps me to persevere, to add more glyphs, to stack a few more bricks, to add characters that one will personally never use...
... all in the hope of seeing that little pink dot. Pathetic, really, isn't it.
Do you think it's just a touch too odd having serifs on just the occasional ascender? (The one on the cap Y is a coy counterbalance to the fact that the stem falls neccessarily offcentre!)
Perhaps my reluctance to forego serifs is because I lack confidence in the overall spirit of the font (MOST of my fonts!) and wonder if it can stand on its own feet, unadorned, as it were.
Thanks again, your last para expresses exactly what I'm trying to do.
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A suggestion: Create a easy-to-do version of the font of your vision. Let it be pixelated. Use only one brick--the full square--and complete it as you want it to be. Then clone it and modify just one property in it, say removing of all serifs or reducing the ascender height by one brick or something else. Since it is just the square brick, it will be easy to modify. Once you have a good approximation of the font you want, clone it again and refine the diagonals and corners.
Alternatively, start creating multiple glyphs in different styles and weights and heights on the same character page so you can compare and see side-by-side which glyph shape you like better. This is what I did for the Write set. was where all the glyphs came into being. As you can see from that, it was easy to make modifications with comparison glyphs right next to each other.
Just a suggestion...if it helps.
