At 02:16 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:08 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> Very nice! I would like them to lay closer to a standard baseline,
> though,
I'm not sure what you mean by "lay closer to a standard baseline". The
baseline of the glyph inside the key is aligned with text outside the
key. I waffled back and forth trying to find the most attractive
position while building the font. The majority of keycaps fonts I looked
at chose the same baseline.
Having looked at the uploaded .pdf, I agree: very nice!
I do agree with Nikolai that there appears at first glance to be a bit of a
baseline problem. As you mention, though, the baselines are "right". The
actual difficulty, in my opinion, is that the font is just a bit too small,
and so the _tops_ of the keys are too low -- it looks odd for them to be
lower than the tops of the capital letters, when the depth of the keys is
so large.
Here's what I would suggest for the enlargement amounts: consider the
examples where you have a key enclosed in parentheses. The bottom of the
key drops below the bottom of the parentheses just a bit, which in my
opinion looks quite good. I think it would be good to enlarge the font so
that the top of the keys extend above the tops of the parentheses by an
equal amount, so that this would look balanced -- in other words, so that
the vertical center of the keys is aligned with the "math
axis". (Admittedly, this does mean realigning the baselines, rather than
just scaling the font.)
This enlargement would also hopefully enable you to make the text within
the keys larger -- at present, they're just barely legible on my
1280-pixel-wide monitor when I have the sample sheet sized to
full-secreen-width.
Aside from that quibble, though, they do look quite good.
- Brooks
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