12 Responses to “5th Leg, Work in Progress”

1. Dread Knight Says:
   August 27th, 2008 at 12:03 am

   I really like this font! O_o

2. ruurd Says:
   August 27th, 2008 at 9:10 am

   Is there a possibility to change the font, particularly the letter ‘J’? Would you consider making the j a bit like f upside down so that the bottom part looks like the bottom part of the ‘G’?

3. jimmac Says:
   August 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am

   @ruurd, the font is licensed under the OFL, so you can take it and create a derivative that you like.

4. yosch Says:
   August 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

   Wow, moving fast indeed.

   I’d recommend filing in the metadata

5. Toms Says:
   August 27th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

   Hey,
   very fascinating. I know how hard it is. I have also a font project on hackweek. What tools do you use? Probably FontForge and Inkscape.

   Good luck to you and always remember to have fun.

6. jimmac Says:
   August 28th, 2008 at 12:10 am

   Yea, Fontforge, Inkscape (Well also in the mix is Fontmatrix and git

7. Toms Says:
   August 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am

   Thanks for the tip about Fontmatrix! I didn’t know that. Really useful application.

8. Lieven Says:
   August 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

   Nice fonts, but I do have a couple of points:

   The o and the s should really sink a tiny bit below the base line. Right now they are probably exactly on it, but this gives the visual impression that they are actually floating a bit above the base line. (This is a pretty well known phenomena btw, and most fonts do account for it)

   I don’t really like the bottom part of the c and e. I think it would look better if it were more similar to the bottom part of the s.

   And I agree with one of the above posters, I don’t really like the j. Maybe make it just a straight line, that only goes a bit deeper than the i, but without the hook.

   Definitely a nice font though, but just some things I think would improve it a bit:)

9. jimmac Says:
   August 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

   @Lieven: Thanks for the good feedback. Agree with everything but the j. He’re how it might look like with more geometric c and e (and with CAPS):

   

   View the image if you’d like more res (800×800px). Or grab a PDF preview. Wonder if I get flamed for the serif on the l. I want the I and l to look distinct, but not sure this is the right way :/. Not happy with Q and W. B has odd proportions too.

10. jimmac Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Added lower case numerals today, may change my mind in future. Simplified the capitals.

    

    PDF preview

11. Michael_GR Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Hello Jimmac, this is great looking font! but I haven’t been able to download it from the link you supplied. I get and error message, ans the SVN path is empty. Where can I find it? thanks in advance!

12. jimmac Says:
    October 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Michael: Moved things around, sorry. The link is updated now.

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