I certainly set myself a challenge. It's asking for trouble doing all this notchy stuff, and trouble is what I got. The biggest problem is weight discrepancy. It's right at the limit of what's doable -- and some of the glyphs show the strain. There are daft choices -- I always make some -- but overall it seems to hang together pretty well.
It's valuable to have a fresh pair of eyes looking. When you've spent a few hours on it, objectivity goes out the window. You're right. I'll tighten them both up by a couple of bricks.
@elmoyenique: I've gone with a composite-formed 1/4 width brick either side of the central downstroke instead. It does create an illegal join which I've glossed over with an incorrect brick. The patch is on a tiny scale relative to the size of the glyph -- I can live with it. (There are others, surprise surprise.)
Meanwhile: those l/c height figs which are neither one thing nor another... well, it was worth a go. There isn't enough room in the grid for the 6,9 and 8; I don't feel inclined to try a proper oldstyle ascenders/descenders treatment, so I'll have to boost the fig set up to cap-height. Besides, that 4 is undeniably awful, ha ha!
@frodo7: when I started I was aiming for a kind of Dracula look but finally it doesn't seem sinister enough. There is a hint of the carpathians about it -- maybe it's the fangs.
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I agree with elmo's rating.
Very impressive. 10/10
Meanwhile: those l/c height figs which are neither one thing nor another... well, it was worth a go. There isn't enough room in the grid for the 6,9 and 8; I don't feel inclined to try a proper oldstyle ascenders/descenders treatment, so I'll have to boost the fig set up to cap-height. Besides, that 4 is undeniably awful, ha ha!
@frodo7: when I started I was aiming for a kind of Dracula look but finally it doesn't seem sinister enough. There is a hint of the carpathians about it -- maybe it's the fangs.
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