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Pulsar Font Progress
🕑 Added 2019-09-09 01:17:44 +0000 UTCProgress! I spent a good chunk of the weekend working on this font, balancing the visual weight of the letterforms, setting default kerning pairs and finally producing a working font that you can actually install and use. I made this sample sheet to give a better idea of what it looks like in action.
I still need to add numbers and punctuation which I'll be working on over the next week.
I have a newfound respect for font designers, as just getting this far was A LOT of work. My original plan was to release this for free and maybe do an extended version with lower case that you could pay for. I don't think I'm going to get that far though, unfortunately. I think what's going to happen is I'll release a limited version of this one for free (say with limited punctuation, maybe without numbers), but continue to develop a full working version in caps that I can sell for a couple bucks. I put so much work into this, it would be nice to make a little bit off of it if people find it useful.
Also even though this is all caps, there are several variations to some of the letters. Although it's not obvious in this sample, for example there are two different "A"s. One has more of a forward slant, useful for starting words (The first "A" in "A font based on my handwriting") and the other is designed to be used within words. Likewise you can see two slightly different "P"s in "Prepare".
It would actually not be too difficult to make an alternate version of every letter, so maybe I'll do that for the "full" version. I'll have to see how much more work I end up putting into it. Anyway, let me know what you think so far!
