I have this morning uploaded the Great Bear Roman font to the web.
The font is incomplete; yet as I have not done anything to it for a long time I thought that I would upload it to the web as it is. It is version 0.13 of 9 November 2006.
Yesterday I produced an experimental version of the font as Great Bear Roman Expt version 0.13 in GRTBEARE.TTF, as a copy of Great Bear Roman version 0.13 with the change of using autometrics with left of 145 and right of 34. This is not a perfect solution yet I wish to try the two fonts in comparison. The 145 was chosen so that the lowercase o would have the same space to the left in both fonts and the 34 was chosen during experiments so that the h would have a width of 1024 font units.
I have just uploaded the GRTBEARE.TTF file to the web.
I am wondering how is the best way to decide on the spacing between the characters in a serifed Roman font. Does anyone have any advice to offer please?
I found some text at Kern King, which I use in the Font Test window. That tends to show up some letters that are not well-spaced.
We’re waiting for Erwin to develop a wizard to adjust bearings automatically. Something like optical kerning. Now that would save a lot of time. I always finish my font with all the composites, and then decide that the spacing is not quite right.
For what it’s worth, William, this font has a lot of promise. It reminds me vaguely of the old serif font included with Borland Turbo Pascal, but has a unique flavour. Keep working at it and be sure to extend the character set!