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Posted by union in
22 Sep 2004 — 10:10am
22 Sep 2004 — 10:10am
After leaving my sans serif font for a while, I am back on the project formally known as Richmond Sans (also on this thread).
I have been working on the lowercase 'e' and I can't help but feel that the right of the letter doesn't seem to balance with the rest of the letter. I've tried aletring it in to a number of different positions over the past hour and can't seem to get it so I m happy with it.
What do you think?
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22 Sep 2004 — 10:19am
You could shear it at the same angle as the lower finial (look at Palatino's "e"), but I'm not sure I even see a real problem - what you're feeling is probably just the inherent "divergence" in the [conventional] Latin alphabet.
I do see problems in some of the curves however, like the join of the left curve to the straight finial being too thin, and the leftmost profile being wobbly.
hhp
22 Sep 2004 — 11:04am
You could also bring in the curve a little bit, like this (I've exaggerated it a bit for purposes of exposition):
22 Sep 2004 — 1:13pm
Hrant, what do you think of this for the bottom of the e,better?
22 Sep 2004 — 1:15pm
Show us the whole thing, dude! :-)
hhp
22 Sep 2004 — 1:25pm
hehe... I can't, the illustrator files are on my mac at work, all I can do tonight is scribble on gifs...
Jim
22 Sep 2004 — 2:45pm
22 Sep 2004 — 8:28pm
Much better balanced