pathumego
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11 months ago but when your counters barely exist, that becomes a bit strange
@fungidube I recommend watching this presentation by Cyrus Highsmith in which he talks about approaching counter spaces as white shapes. I think will be very relevant to you design and spacing process.
Looking at the prototype in #1 and the source font, it seems like you haven’t really done any work on spacing yet. Just taking straight-sided caps as an example, I see sidebearings at 20, 30, 40 and 50 units on different letters, or even on different sides of the same symmetric letter like “H.”
This is an important part of the initial prototype. Assigning sidebearings is part of the glyph design process.
What is the typical size you expect this font to be used at? The spacing should be optimized for that size, whatever it is. At significantly smaller sizes it will look too tight and at much larger sizes it will look too loose. But because we tend to work with the letters at large sizes while designing them on screen, the most common problem is spacing letters too tightly.
Normally there is a whole lecture about how spacing relates to the interior counter size, but when your counters barely exist, that becomes a bit strange. Still, if you want to learn about conventional spacing for a sans serif font, this video of mine is a good start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbc_O7bNROs (yes it is super old and uses FontLab, but the principles are still valid)