The prep drawing of this had a cap-height of 11 bricks. It looked promising, so when I redrew it in FS I denied myself the masochistic pleasures of a tight scheme for the greater scope of a doubled grid.

Thanks Rob for the top pick. I shall now guiltily flesh out the figures and punctuation in order to present a more useful offering.
@will: seeing how I've sworn off curves-by-numbers, I've become increasingly interested in the shorthand that the octagonal approach offers. I've had a go at more-or-less strict octagonal designs, but what interests me more is the mix of "illegal" angles along with the conventional ones. How economical can you be, and still fool the eye into seeing curves? And what's more, fooling a computer monitor. (Easier and harder by turns.)

@will.i.ૐ: I've made up a file in Indesign that mimics Fontstruct. There's a 5mm grid and on the pasteboard I've got squares, triangles, circles and whatnot which snap to it.
@aphoria: glad you like them. Although I probably haven't finished. The weight looks a bit uneven (probably because I dashed them out during the adbreaks of "Fringe" on the telly). I know. It rots your brain.