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All that slaving away with the stacked bricks paid off. It's given me the flexibility, with a little cheating here and there, to strike a fairly convincing bold version that manages to hold the look of the original despite having a weight of 4h x 3v bricks instead of 2h x 1 1/2v. Not quite pound-for-pound. I cheated by raising the whole thing one brick height as well. Otherwise I would have struggled with the tighter glyphs.

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Created on 18th September 2008. Last edited on 11th November 2008.
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If I'm overcome with a fit of madness I might try an x-bold, but that will involve quite a bit of messing about.

Flushed with success, I'm confident I can get a light and a demi out of it too. That's if I can stand doing 190+ glyphs of the same font four times...

For the present I shall just bang away at finishing the bold. Maybe I'm finally growing up, actually finishing something instead of flitting onto the next thing.

Later... the fatal realisation:

Hmm. Comparing the two side-by-side I realise it's not so fantastic after all. Ha ha! What are cracks in the plain become fissures in the bold. The cap N. Thick-thin indecisiveness. And a generally klunky look.

Damn! There's more to this font business than I bargained for! How hard can it be? Well, very hard.

Comment by intaglio 18th september 2008

Having recently played the Fontstruct weight game, I feel your pain Intaglio. Stay the course. I think you're making good progress.

Comment by afrojet 19th september 2008

Well, as the author of the sublime Chesterfield family I'm flattered you think it's worth my persevering with poor old James.

It's funny, isn't it, how intoxicated with your own brilliance you can become as you're creating the font: brimming with enthusiasm, confidence and hubris. But 24 hours later and it all looks like turd, and you're sick of the sight of it.

FontStruct brings out the bipolar in me. There I go, blaming an external...

I'll feel better about it when I download the fonts and muck about with them in InDesign, persuading myself they really aren't quite the worst fonts I've ever spawned.

That cap N bugs me. I don't know how to fix it.

Comment by intaglio 19th september 2008

Your last comment scared me a little bit. We may be half a world apart, but in thoughts...it's as if you are speaking from inside my head. *shudder*

Anyway, two possible N variants:

Comment by thalamic 20th september 2008

Thalamic you're a lifesaver. And not just because you gift me solutions!

I'm having a very blue time of it at the moment, but I've just got to get over myself.

I found it:

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow

The Hollow Men, TSlash Yourwrists.

Do you think I should do away with the notch? Is it too unspeakably awful?

Comment by intaglio 20th september 2008

for some reason your comment reminds me of this line from Pirates of Penzance

"In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(oooh, strategy? Strategy, lategy, patagy...ah ha! I have it!)
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee"

:)

PS: I like the notch. It's very Inti. Go with it.

Comment by thalamic 20th september 2008

A sampler of progress on Plain James.
My download must have had a glitch in it -- nothing wrong with the lower case j, apparently.