#font lab

IN this lesson we had another talk with Manu about the progress of our typefaces as well as the process we need to complete in the coming weeks to prepare to submit the assignment. 

She gave us feedback on the loops of our j and y which were not quite right and although I was reluctant to change them (the original j is easily my favorite letter) I could certainly see that the legibility was not there. Manu also suggested edits for some of our special symbols and numbers (8, ?, @. %, \ /) just to get them looking more  neat while still being consistent with the organic nature of the style.

We were then encouraged to get as much as we could into Fontlab so we could start typing and testing to see how our letters interact and how the words look. This was accompanied by advice on kerning so it became quite obvious unite quickly that we are going to have to establish a few special rules to make sure this font looks good. It also looks like we will be needing to create ligatures but it won’t be for every letter or letter combination but rather where we see the potential for some really lovely combinations that will enhance the overall effectiveness of the type. Some notes we took while doing this testing are included below:

fi combination, rule for rr, hi rule, f and letters like it need special kerning, need to look at creating ligatures for certain combinations with j, g and other descenders