Thursday, 19 May 2011

Final Font


As you can see this is final edited version of my font. Looks a lot better.

Anyway, there are several changes I've made frim the initial testing of Pixel V2.


l Opted for a sans-serif font. Lends itself to the style I chose a over serif font. It's also a lot easier on the eye.
l Mixed alterations from revised characters of artefact 4 (the characters k, w, i.). They're now more in keeping with the overal style.
l Re-designed some upper-case such as the M, W and N
l Manually edited character width in fontlab, I realised that some of the upper-case characters were too wide, and that's why they looked odd. Many of the upper-case characters have had their overall width reduced to be more in keeping with the lower-case.
l Proper kerning implemented, upper-case, lower-case and punctuation glyphs. There are standardized gaps between the letters now. Flat edges have a gap of 35upm, rounded edges have 30upm. The lower-case r, f and t are the only exceptions because of their unique shape.
l Reduced stroke 0.5mm in Illustrator. Stroke width now 2.5mm. While the thinner stroke width does hinder readability, it's a non-issue as most of the characters are now clearer and easier to recognise.
l Reduced Caps-height as well as lowered any horizontal strokes for upper-case to sit above the x-height for added consistency. Now the Upper-case doesn't jump about all over the place. I think the font looks better for it.
  • There is also the added thickness to the x and v characters so now they appear the same width as the other characters.
  • Additionally the dots above the i and j characters have been raised to become more distinguished. They now sit half way between the x-height and the ascender.
  • Re-designed lower-case r, w as well as made alterations to lower-case f.

 

5th Artefact - Questionnaire

Questionnaire Results
 As you can see, the majority chose Sans-serif as their preferred font, at both sizes. The results from question 2 and question 5 indicate that it is easier to read that the serif font, so in that case my final font will be a sans-serif font. Which to be honest, I think fits the overal style of the font much better than a serif font does.

Additionally, it's also overwhelmingly apparant that there is a noticeable difference between the two, despite the difference only being minor. I included that question to make sure that there was no confusion, and people could differentiate between the two.

Finally, there were several issues that question 7 brought to light.

The main concern being that the x and v characters look thinner than the other characters, despite being the same width in Illustrator. It's clear that I must make them thicker to compensate for the angle of the stroke.

Secondly, some participants expressed difficulty in reading the font as it appeared some letters were conjoined, a kerning issue. Something that I will address in my final font and make sure that the letters do not conjoin.

Finally