It is looking better now. Good enough to be usable. How much time you want to spend on improving it is up to you. See How Long Does it Take to Make a Font?
There are several things you could do. You can do these as a way to learn new techniques:
- There are still some validation errors. Go to Tools, Options, Validation, and select “Local Detection” — the default is “Global Detection” — and run the validator again. Even after that, there is still a stray contour in glyph 57. This will ruin the line-spacing of your font, and it affects the spacing of that glyph.
- Spacing looks too tight. If you look at Wingdings, most of the symbols will have about 150-200 funits on each side. So use the automatic glyph metrics on Tools, Autometrics to set the bearings to 175 funits of white space on each side. Then save the font to set the left side bearings at x=0. To change bearings for individual glyphs, if you think they need less or more spacing than others, use the Bearings Tab on the Transform toolbar.
- Look at the naming fields in Format, Naming. It says “Typeface © (your company). 2009. All Rights Reserved” That could be improved. So go to Tools, Options, Naming and fill in the fields. They will then be used with all of your new fonts. Then run the Autonaming Wizard on the Tools menu. Maybe you could think of something more imaginative than just “Crystals” ? Short, but memorable is good. You might also like to rename cryst__.ttf to something better.
- Then, if you want to improve the details, start looking closely at individual glyphs. For example, glyphs 55, 58 have white contours that are not needed. Glyph 50 has not traced very well. Enter points mode, select a few nodes at the joins, and zoom in using the “Zoom to selected” icon on the drawing toolbar. Start deleting nodes so that you get nice sharp corners. Use the “Fit to window” icon to zoom out again quickly.
- Make vertical and horizontal lines perfectly straight and vertical or horizontal. For example, in glyph 46. Do this by deleting any off-curve nodes (the round ones), and use the align tools to align pairs of selected on-curve nodes (the square ones) precisely.
- To align nodes on a diagonal, use guidelines. Select two nodes and press the “G” shortcut to add a guideline. Now drag the intermediate nodes to snap to the diagonal guideline. You can turn off “Fill Outlines” to see the guidelines inside the glyph.
Diagonal Guideline.png - When you have done with editing and removing all the stray contours, recalculate the font metrics from Format, Settings, Metrics, Calculate. This will change the line-spacing of your font and move the bearing lines in the Glyph edit window.
- Now check the perspective on you crystals to see if they look right. Hide all of the toolbars in the glyph edit window and use a trick to hide all the guides quickly. Press alter H, and then click in the window to hide the help menu. Scroll through your font using the Alter Left and Right cursor keys. Closing and reopening the glyph edit window will restore the guides.