I don't see any problem with the N. It shares the same uncial/semiuncial heritage of other letters. Besides, where's written that an R should morphologically follow the logic of the B or vice-versa? Maybe the intention of John Spencer was to give each letter a different treatment. That's why I think these postings are often tricky for a beginner. They may be confusing more than helping...

::::: Maybe the intention of John Spencer was to give each letter a different treatment

if that was the intention his post should be at a display font, cause it necesary to keep cartain familiarity between the characters.

Beside the "N" is just two verticals with a very shy diagonal that could perfectly be solved in a curve way as in "A", "R" or "V", all these letters with a good way to solve the personality of the font.

:::::::: Besides, where's written that an R should morphologically follow the logic of the B or vice - versa?

Besides, why it has to be written to be done?

CG

I didn't mean to be polemic, Cristian, sorry!
Being relatively new I didn't realized fully that being in the Sans Serif cathegory, Pseudo sachsen was meant to be a face for extensive textsetting.
Anyway in odd designs the B and the R could be different (I'm odd, you'll see).
I'm sorry you spent time doing the image which is useful indeed. I just thought of Pseudo Sachsen as a generic face...

i intentionally posted this face without any introduction or basis, because i was
curious as to what kinds of classifications pseudo sachsen would receive from
my peers.

perhaps i did initially post sachsen in the wrong category, yet my intentions with
the lower case are to maintain a legible, modern sans-face while the caps possess
a bit of the display majuscule as some of the historical specimens from which i
collected reference (namely the 5th to 9th century adoption of roman characters
and written literacy into anglo-saxon, irish, visigothic and other northern european
cultures)

By the way. I love, LOVE that A ... Yummy!

as you all can see, i could really use some feedback.
i'm still plugging away at this thing, and now have the first lower case exploration behind me.
interested in what people think...



and here is a slice of text to see some of the interaction of the letters: in the first one i'm still experimenting with a semi-serif, and the latter the sans.

John

i really like your imrovements

only a few comments

1.-in your lc "r" i think that the "nose" should be shorter, is to ackward the spacing with these one.
2.-i do like the second stem to be shorter but you should be carefull or even forget it in some characters like the "n" or "m", besides this is completely the opposite in the UC "M" and "N"
3.- Why not givin' some curvy stuff in the descender of the "x", that would tie it up with the other letterforms.
4.- in your UC "S" i think that it should be so rough in the right bottom, you should go up a little bit with that corner, the same as lc "b"
5.- in the lc "o" those corners should be more clear, like in your lc "c"
6.- lc "z" for me is too wide
7.- you should shorten a little bit the acender of lc "t", it's too disturbing

anyway, you are progressing with big steps, good work :-)

CG

thanks to those who

Hello, John -

Somewhat belatedly, but justified by my Saxon descent ;-) How may I obtain a file of the Pseudo Sachsen font, which (as I understand) has been ready for some time? Strictly for my private projects, of course.

Thanks in advance -

Ronald Kyrmse
www.geocities.com/kyrmse/ & www.geocities.com/otsoandor/