Font stuff
01-02-2019, 11:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2019, 11:29 AM by classicdrogn.)
01-02-2019, 11:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2019, 11:29 AM by classicdrogn.)
For the first time in at least five years, I've found a new font I like enough to set it as my browser default - two of them in fact:
Radis Sans is now my sans-serif
New Shape (while only barely technically qualifying) for serif
Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it does mean I've actually switched away from my own custom designed font that's been the only thing on my screen most of the time for that long, AgameAperture or the precursor I've forgotten the name of.
So, I figured I'd share that at last, since I haven't developed it further in a good long while. You can use it as you like, though I'd prefer not having it distrubuted otherwise (in its own right or embedded in apps or whatever, though including it in PDFs or similar documents for display is fine) since there are still a few issues I'd like to fix Real Soon Now like the alignment of accent marks over the capital U, and some tiny bugaboos in the outlines that make FontForge throw error messages despite none of the regular software I've used it with ever having issues with it.
As I say, it's been the only thing on my screen for years, my tablet as well, so the basic features of being legible even at small sizes both in objective terms and relative to the display's pixels and attractive to the eye (I especially love the W, both upper and lower case) are well established, and the settings for bold and italic/oblique enough to definitely be distinctive. Also, every letter of the basic latin set is distinct even when mirrored or rotated, which I understand is an important thing for people with certain neurological conditions. Try it out and see what you think?
Radis Sans is now my sans-serif
New Shape (while only barely technically qualifying) for serif
Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it does mean I've actually switched away from my own custom designed font that's been the only thing on my screen most of the time for that long, AgameAperture or the precursor I've forgotten the name of.
So, I figured I'd share that at last, since I haven't developed it further in a good long while. You can use it as you like, though I'd prefer not having it distrubuted otherwise (in its own right or embedded in apps or whatever, though including it in PDFs or similar documents for display is fine) since there are still a few issues I'd like to fix Real Soon Now like the alignment of accent marks over the capital U, and some tiny bugaboos in the outlines that make FontForge throw error messages despite none of the regular software I've used it with ever having issues with it.
As I say, it's been the only thing on my screen for years, my tablet as well, so the basic features of being legible even at small sizes both in objective terms and relative to the display's pixels and attractive to the eye (I especially love the W, both upper and lower case) are well established, and the settings for bold and italic/oblique enough to definitely be distinctive. Also, every letter of the basic latin set is distinct even when mirrored or rotated, which I understand is an important thing for people with certain neurological conditions. Try it out and see what you think?
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