On 5/5/07, Stephen Hartke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello! Aurulent Sans is a sans serif font I'm developing for use as the primary interface font on X Windows on GNU/Linux. I am developing it using MetaType1 and FontForge. A preliminary release is available at http://www.geocities.com/hartke01/ At the moment, I am interested in feedback before proceeding to polish the fonts for release (which is why I haven't uploaded the fonts to the OpenFontLibrary website). I have been using Aurulent Sans as my primary interface font (and the monospace version for my terminal) for over a year now, and have found it quite agreeable. However, I am aware that over-familiarity can breed complacency, and there might be some obvious fixes that are needed. I welcome comments anyone has for improvement.
Aurulent looks really nice. Awesome work. It can definitely become a standard font. - At first I got the impression g stands out a bit much, it might be too original with such an open lower bowl, although I eventually got used to it. - I find the bar of the f a bit short on the right in Regular, it's almost the same length as the bar of t in Bold which looks more balanced. - There's something odd with v, w and y in Italic. Maybe v, w should be more similar to y, or vice versa. - Diacritics are a bit much to the right on C and G. But looking at U+0134, U+013D and U+01E9 with off diacritics, composed glyphs probably need polishing too. I suggest placing anchors on a visually centered axis and then build accented accent through Fontforge. This way it will be consistent through pre-composed glyphs and with composed characters. - Combining diacritcs should probably be centered on X=0 and have zero advance width, at least if you want to follow the OpenType definition. Otherwise, they should have their contour in the negative range for legacy system that cannot use anchors to position them. This doesn't apply to the Mono font, where all characters need to have the same advance width, but you can use OT features to fix it. - When you do polishing, remember to removed duplicate points, there are a few like the top point of 'a', also remember to round coordinates and bearings. If you want to make it easier to interpolate weight variant fonts, make sure each glyph has the same number of point and the same order in Regular and Bold. Let us know if/how we can contribute glyphs or features. Cheers, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
