Thanks for taking this on. As a graphic designer in a previous life, I have an affection for typefaces and layout.
This might not be the place for this, but I am curious what you are using to actually create/minipulate the fonts. Both Software wise and other. Maybe you could share a bit of your workflow for this? very curious how this all works.
By chance, I’ve detailed the process in a blog article on Scoring Notes.
I’m using FontLab now, though.
Thanks - I will check out that article. Just installed Golden Age and so far, so good for me.
What a lovely article – friendly, well organized, concise and very informative.
If you’re on Windows, you should check out FontCreator. I’ve used it for all the fonts I created last year, and it worked great for me.
I get this with the Pixeboy font too - not sure why some fonts appear higher up than others
OK my little SMuFL collection is now
having found BenWiggs Sebastian also up on GitHub. Any others I should look at?
Have a look here: NEWS: Finale 27 and SMuFL - #142 by zetorche
and here too: List of SMuFL fonts? - #11 by Paolo_T
This is really great, I love the font and have used it with Finale and LilyPond. However, I always found the kerning for certain character pairs off-putting, and although I see improvements in your version, some pairs are still not great: “Tp” and “Tb” for instance have some problems. “Tenor”, on the other hand, is looking great.
This will definitely not stop me from using your version, but it would be great if you could address these! In any case, thanks for your work.
Thanks. That’s exactly the feedback I’m looking for. Let me know if there’s others that stick out.
@benwiggy I corrected the font metrics and kerning, can I post the font correction here to try out? See below:
That looks great, apart from the very first Tr and the Th of this.
@RichardTownsend Yes, I also noticed that the letters 'r 'and ‘h’ are very narrowed to letter T.
Thanks, but I’ve also been reviewing the kerning, as well as other changes.
Also, given that it’s a ‘handwriting’ font, it ought to have some irregularity!
I agree, the kerning does not have to be completely uniform and it should definitely not be too tight.
To be honest, I feel these are too close together. I think the “Te” pair in @benwiggy’s version is nicer looking and “Tb” and “Tp” could be more like that.
There’s a new version, 0.12, on the site, for you to try.
I’ve fiddled back and forth with the kerning on several more pairs of letters for as long as I can bear!
Can you please put a link up @benwiggy ? I’d like to try it out
