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MezMerrit / AU-School-Handwriting-Fonts

Foundational + Transitional Variable Fonts
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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TAS Font, SA Font and VIC-WA-NT Font Sets Completed #7

Closed MezMerrit closed 2 years ago

MezMerrit commented 2 years ago

TAS Fonts, SA Fonts and VIC-WA-NT Fonts are done, including the following changes (will upload just as soon as someone gives me the green light).

Universal:

All glyphs “shifted" left All start points as close to baseline as possible, otherwise left-bottom of stem (ditched the script which claims to optimise them for Master compatibility) Removed unnecessary control points Reduced spacing Lightened all diagonals on bold lowercase glyphs

Individual:

Removed 'brace' layers & adjusted uppercase A Dots below !? and above i j enlarged Period, Colin, ?, !, moved to baseline with recommended undershoot Dots on semicolon and colan raised to x-height % lowered to numeral height Ampersand raised to Cap height Slashes adjusted for vertical balance Point removed from lower case k Asciitilde named correctly Space glyph narrowed

Notes:

Deliberately minimizing uppercase and lowercase under/overshoots since teachers generally add guides at Cap Height, Descender, Baseline, X-Height and half way between (as per example below). Staying within these ruled lines is a nationwide standard.

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dberlow commented 2 years ago

I agree, and figured out that the alignments are more for writing instruction, than normal optical alignment.

On Mar 20, 2022, at 10:49 PM, Mez @.***> wrote:

Deliberately minimizing uppercase and lowercase under/overshoots

MezMerrit commented 2 years ago

Added transitional alternates to the glyphs files only. Updated start node points in UFO files only.

MezMerrit commented 2 years ago

Moving my office back home today. Offline until tomorrow