Another attempt to make a readable font narrower than Arial Narrow. I am basing the letters on ovals now, to try to make them easier for my eyes to deal with at small sizes. Works well at size 9. Arial Narrow is still better than this at size 8.
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Created on 18th December 2019. Last edited on 27th June 2025.
I think readable high density fonts are my 'white whale'. I keep needing to use them in my work and documentation. This font seems to beat Arial Narrow at size 9. However still, Arial Narrow at size 8 is better to me than either. I keep working it.
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Wow. You’ve put a lot of work into this.
Now that you’ve shifted to oval forms, the Cyrillic letter “Б” looks a bit off, because normally it’s not rounded on the left side of the bowl.
Great work jon. What I like the most about this is the rough finish. Brings a sense of handwriting feel to it. Really cool
One small point of criticism, the width of the lowercase v could be smaller, now its pretty wide compared with the overall character set. ;-)
Actually I sadly think it got corrupted since they were not previously present in the font. :-(
I think readable high density fonts are my 'white whale'. I keep needing to use them in my work and documentation. This font seems to beat Arial Narrow at size 9. However still, Arial Narrow at size 8 is better to me than either. I keep working it.
Ah, you fixed the “Б”. Great job.
Wait What why did you made all chars
@ShielaRuanes, This font tries to replace Arial, so I have tried to include all the characters that Arial covers.
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