Minor refresh of the design

[erinmclaughlin]

I've spent the most time on the Regular, followed by Bold, and then a few changes in the Thin and Light.

I'll try to summarize some of the changes here:

• One of the biggest changes in all styles was the width of the diagonal characters. I've made W, M, w, v, y, V, Y, x, X, K, and k wider, especially in the Bold weight. I felt that these looked a bit compressed in the original version of the fonts.
• In the Bold, I've also tried to redistribute the weight in a manner more characteristic of calligraphic stress - this means that more weight is in the left-to-right diagonal shapes, instead of the vertical strokes.
• The S, s, and a glyphs looked top-heavy to me, so I made some adjustments in the balance of top and bottom.
• I've attempted to open up the terminals of the C and G glyphs, as I felt they looked a bit closed.
• I've increased the size of the tittles (dots) on the i and j
• I thought that the lowercase g looked a bit too sans-serif like, so I added an ear to it. Still not sure if this is the best option.
• Slightly increased the length of the shoulder in the r
• In the Regular weight, I've attempted to make the uppercase round shapes a bit more oval, so that they more closely resemble Roboto Sans' proportions. I've also made the E, F, B, D, U, S, Z, G, C more narrow for this same reason. I would love to continue these types of modifications in the other weights if we can extend the project.
• I also spent a bit of time today making some quick spacing and kerning modifications to the Regular. Hopefully I've left it in a decent state! :)
• I'm still not satisfied with the CGQJg specifically, and hope I can revisit these!
• I've hardly done any modification to the Greek and Cyrillic, but I hope I get the chance to!

[moyogo]

• I've increased the size of the tittles (dots) on the i and j
• I thought that the lowercase g looked a bit too sans-serif like, so I added an ear to it. Still not sure if this is the best option.

I think the first gif has the wrong “before”/“after” labels. I like the new g with the ear.

[davelab6]

Ah yes, there is no ear on the 'g' today in https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Slab

[erinmclaughlin]

Whoops, you are right! Mixed up the labels :)