Glyphs to potentially fix
thundernixon opened this issue · comments
A running list of design problems to re-evaluate.
The most immediate issues jump out from:
/r.sc
/s.sc
ẞ
/germandbls.sc
Ţ
/eng.sc
Ł
/lslash.sc
Ø
ø
ą
ų
/eogonek.sc
₡
₩
/r.sc has a too-thin right leg in the light masters (especially in the light wide)
/s.sc looks like it's "leaning back" in the bold narrow master
ẞ & /germandbls.sc have a very strange form, and I doubt Germans would feel good about this. Asking some friends.
Ţ & /eng.sc have little bits of mismatching outlines in light masters
Ł, /lslash.sc, Ø, & ø don't follow the logic of any other diagonals in the family
Ogonek doesn't flow into some of the bold letters as well as it could.
₡ & ₩ could have less breakage to their bars
The design seems to be intentionally avoiding changes to glyph forms between styles, but the ₩could take an approach similar to IBM Plex (with partial breaks) and would probably be more recognizable.
Would be great to set up time with @Fonthausen to go over these
Jacques is coming to NYC 10/31 - 11/3rd or so, if you want to wait until he's here in person :)
That would be great! I'll plan for that.
After talking with Jacques, we concluded that:
- Yes, make the
/Rleg a bit thicker - Try an alternate form of the
/Germandbls, but keep the slight bend in the top part (similar to R, B, etc) - fix the interpolation issue of the
/Enj, but leave the/Tcedilla - Update the diagonal accents to have sharp, vertical/horizontal terminations
- make the ogonek
/Esmoother, then reduce the little notch by decomposing the lowercase base letters - maybe experiment with alternative currency symbols, using GSUB to swap to disconnected versions for bolder weights