Alps (very first font !)

[schezar5]

Hello everyone,

Here's my very first font, there's a lot of work to do (SC, accents, layout & design of the overview etc. etc.) but I'll be happy to have a feedback of some type designers/lovers/pedestrians passing by

Any comments will be greatly appreciated,

http://schezar5.zoomshare.com/files/alps.pdf

Nicolas


PS : I have to apologize for my crappy English but you'll notice that my mother tongue is French

PS 2 : You're right, adding transparency in Indesign was not a good idea

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Hard to comment on the font without the font file to look at closely. You seem to have done a good job with the spacing, which is hard to get right, but I noticed a problem with the spacing of the ff ligature in the italic.

The PDF file is huge (6.58 Mbytes) because it is all graphics. Why not use text?

[schezar5]

Yes, there's some kerning problems.... in fact I forgot the add the kerning after the liga & accentuated caracters

And I knew it was a bad idea to make a "complex" layout ( in the postproccessing way) but I'd like to make a specimen with some esthetics and not just text...

Anything else to say Bhikkhu ? about the caracter shapes or weights... it seems the the "o" is a little bit too bold for exemple

Thanks a lot for your feedback

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

If you want to send me the font I can take a closer look, otherwise it not possible to examine it properly.

[schezar5]

I'll send you the f file aswhen I will have done all he work that will be needed in order to have a "complete" type face ... Thanks for your interest