Laziness: because I've had my fill of chasing bricks around the screen;
stubborness: because I'm having a fetish for tight little grid schemes at the moment and doing it twice the size is a form of cheating. I could have got the bowls of the m and w even, sharpened up some of the other incongruities and probably achieved even better spacing. Talk about making a rod for my own back.

It's interesting how the original scaling looks better in the preview pane than the retooled version. I tried hard to resist the temptation to meddle with it but I find it hard to curb myself if I think I'm "improving" it.

@xenophilius: Yes I hadn't got round to the lig yet. That's still in the scale of the original before I redid all the other glyphs.

@will.i.ૐ: You might be right there. It does draw a little too much attention to the abruptness of the transition. Part of the challenge of retooling this idea was resisting the temptation to smoothe out the angles!

I don't know whether I'm convinced by it or not. It's not an orthodox octagonal, so some of the joins look unquestionably ugly at different screen resolutions. I suppose it's only to be expected that anything other than 90- and 45-degrees is going to give rise to unpleasant artifacts.

As for a caps: i've got to work myself up to it. I know the grid still isn't fine enough to achieve the subtle weight gain that the caps should have. So I'm a bit reluctant to start.

Wouldn't it have been nice if I'd engaged the brain before launching out on this?