Re: 'Decorative' Typefaces - Narrowing 'em down . . .
| July 28, 2020 02:02PM |
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Rosso Wrote:
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> As you point out, the A sets next to the B which
> looks much heavier. If you strip away the serifs
> and shading, the base of the A is 23 units wide.
> The B is 28 units wide. I don't think the issue is
> that the A is too narrow, rather that all the other
> letters are too wide.
Again, "Great (?)* Minds Think Alike" -
Exactly the same thought occurred to me yesterday, and I even went back and looked at the sample string 'A B . . . H I' that Eric posted a few days ago to confirm my suspicions. Here's Eric's original A - I string, resized to a 1000 pixel wide .jpg file:
. . . and a quick-&-dirty modification with the letters B through G narrowed by one large square of his grid, and my slightly wider 'A' substituted for his:
One additional minor change might be to narrow the top of the 'B' and shorten the top arm of the 'G' by one or two small squares. Also the 'C' now looks a bit large compared to the 'D', so maybe we should narrow the former and widen the latter by one or two small squares, like this further quick alteration:.
OOOooooops — Now it looks like I overdid the narrower 'C' and wider 'D' by one or two clicks, but the above is close enough for gummint work, IMHO.
- Roosso (Muy) Loco
* In company with most readers of the NGDF, it's only the greatness of my own mind that I question – not yours nor Eric's.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2020 04:49PM by Russo Loco.
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> As you point out, the A sets next to the B which
> looks much heavier. If you strip away the serifs
> and shading, the base of the A is 23 units wide.
> The B is 28 units wide. I don't think the issue is
> that the A is too narrow, rather that all the other
> letters are too wide.
Again, "Great (?)* Minds Think Alike" -
Exactly the same thought occurred to me yesterday, and I even went back and looked at the sample string 'A B . . . H I' that Eric posted a few days ago to confirm my suspicions. Here's Eric's original A - I string, resized to a 1000 pixel wide .jpg file:
. . . and a quick-&-dirty modification with the letters B through G narrowed by one large square of his grid, and my slightly wider 'A' substituted for his:
One additional minor change might be to narrow the top of the 'B' and shorten the top arm of the 'G' by one or two small squares. Also the 'C' now looks a bit large compared to the 'D', so maybe we should narrow the former and widen the latter by one or two small squares, like this further quick alteration:.
OOOooooops — Now it looks like I overdid the narrower 'C' and wider 'D' by one or two clicks, but the above is close enough for gummint work, IMHO.
- Roosso (Muy) Loco
* In company with most readers of the NGDF, it's only the greatness of my own mind that I question – not yours nor Eric's.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2020 04:49PM by Russo Loco.
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