Design issues

[vv-monsalve]

Google Fonts Latin Plus coverage

• Design all the glyphs required in the GF Latin Plus encoding
• Create all the comb marks as mentioned below
• Leave only the compound glyphs (e.g. adblgrave) marked in dark grey as pending to be created using the components

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Diacritics

• Please ensure the definitive design is adjusted in the combining marks, so they will be ready to create the compound glyphs.
• Once the definitive design is ensured in the comb marks Legacy marks, delete the legacy marks and add them back so they are made using the comb marks as components.
• Diacritics need to be balanced (in weight, size, contrast) and matching the style of the typeface design.
• Adjust the vertical position using glyphs app locked guidelines.
• Ensure related marks are consistent between them, e.g. caron and circumflex
• Caron.alt need to have the alternate shape used in Ľ Slovak On page 30 of this document you can find detailed info around the vertical Caron.
• Leave a 0 sidebearings value for the marks

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Glyphs

• The ampersand and Eng need to be consistent (in size and style) with the font. See RUSerius as reference
• The German Double SS need to be fixed. This article is a good reference
  
• one.superior twosuperior threeesuperior foursuperior` need to be fixed
  
  
• paragraph needs to be scaled down
  

[RobLeuschke]

All assignments have been completed!

[vv-monsalve]

Hi @RobLeuschke, I've pulled the latest file in dropbox.

The `superior` numbers are too big still. While scaling down proportionally the original figures is a valid starting point they would need some adjustments after it to (a) avoid having nodes with fractional values or position, and (b) to avoid inconsistency in the stem thickness or typographic color. E.g.

Please adjust them.

[RobLeuschke]

Better?

[vv-monsalve]

Better?

Better, although they still look a little bit big. It would depend on the design and designer but on average they tend to be ~65 to 75% of the x-height. Right now they still look almost as big as the n.

[RobLeuschke]

I have reduced the size more and added a bit more weight.

[RobLeuschke]

I believe I have covered all of the issues that were brought to my attention.

Cherish is now ready for the next stage of completion.

[vv-monsalve]

Hi @RobLeuschke, as reported by Nhung there are still some Design issues to solve in Cherish. I pushed an updated Cherish.glyphs file in DropBox with the latest changes performed on our part so that you can take over the pending issues, which mainly are:

• Overall pacing issues. There are some kerning pairs between e.g. one o but not the others. At the same time, many of the kerning pairs present in the font could be avoided by improving the space. The sidebearing arithmetic in Glyphs App is of great help to do this, as well as creating Kerning groups.
• Some symbols need to be adjusted
• ordfemenine and ordmasculine need to be fixed

[RobLeuschke]

Anomalies in the spacing of numerals have revised.

[vv-monsalve]

@RobLeuschke These are the images we reviewed when inspecting spacin/kerning + connections issues. Please keep in mind all that we've talked about. Thanks

Spacin & kerning

Connections

• connections between co oc on 'ou or` among others

[vv-monsalve]

As we've talked about when reviewing the superior numbers, the ordfeminine and ordmasculine, scaling the original shapes is a good starting point, but the stroke and proportions need to be adjusted

[vv-monsalve]

@RobLeuschke Let me know how are you coming with these fixes for Cherish. Thanks

[RobLeuschke]

My apologies! I had made the changes, but didn't realize I had made them in my copy on my desktop and not in the live Dropbox.

The ordinals have been heavied up.

Some of the lowercase connectors have been modified to better connections:

In addition, I have cleaned up some of the capitals to connect better to lowercase.

I created a C.calt from the original form. The newer connecting C is now in the base character/glyph cell.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

[RobLeuschke]

Done!

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[vv-monsalve]

Done!

Thanks for the improvements! I'll look for the latest file now :)