Noto Sans Tolong Siki

[marcoT0425]

Today, I'm working on Noto Sans Tolong Siki. The letters should be as tall as Telugu letters.

[Mercury13]

The quality is strangely low. I managed to release 3.0 and want to make a sabbatical. Small fixes, add something to Library…

[marcoT0425]

Which chars are problematic? Can you tell me?

[marcoT0425]

I've tried my best to create it.

[marcoT0425]

After I create the whole font, could you please review the glyph orientations and designs?

[Mercury13]

B0: you tried to repeat the craggy font up to curvature. Have you ever checked handwritten specimen? B1: looks wide B2: looks cramped B6, B7 etc: how do you choose whether stroke’s butt is horizontal or perpendicular? B8 etc: where lines meet, it’s tempting to make a line thinner I don’t see whether there’s optical compensation BA etc: doesn’t look in harmony C5: you forget that it’s a font rather than a collection of glyphs. And it will be surely written alongside Devanagari, whose capacity is greater. Why are you making it so wide?

[Mercury13]

C0: really sharp corner here?

[Mercury13]

You seemingly don’t see how the quill should go in handwritten text.

[marcoT0425]

I found it in Twitter/X.

[marcoT0425]

B6 and B7 is fine. B6 should be more condensed

[marcoT0425]

The curvature should look like this.

[marcoT0425]

B1 and B2 are hard to draw. After I complete the whole font, can you make some enhancements? I’ll send an .sfd file to you

[marcoT0425]

C0 is rounded but Unifont displays as a sharped corner due to technical limitations.

[marcoT0425]

B2 needs to be more condensed

[Mercury13]

That craggy font is done better than yours! Have you ever seen handwritten specimen? For unprinted scripts the first you should do is to explore how they write.

[Mercury13]

…I mean, they have no printed tradition, and computer fonts are probably drawn by complete amateurs, and don’t look at computer fonts AT ALL!

[marcoT0425]

There is not handwriting specimens for this script. The designs are based on Unifont!!

[marcoT0425]

For example, this is a specimen of the handwriting of the Ho Warang Chiti script.

[Mercury13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P-bh1BEbOM

[marcoT0425]

Thanks for giving the link of the tutorial of the Tolong Siki language. When I’m free, I’ll style or learn the manuscript(s) of this font.

[marcoT0425]

This is the handwritten version of the South Asian Kurukh language.

[marcoT0425]

B1 and B2 are more condensed

[marcoT0425]

I’ll modify B6 to B8 to a more condensed weight.

[marcoT0425]

Did you mean condensing the glyphs to make them more consistent to other Asian scripts?

[marcoT0425]

If I finished the whole font, can you please highlight the glyphs in 4 different colours and explain the reason why the glyph is designed well/badly.

🟥 Poor design 🟧 Problematic design 🟨 Good design 🟩 Excellent design

[marcoT0425]

In B6, I’ll choose the stroke butt to horizontal, like the “U” in Helvetica, to parallel the design of other Telugu characters.

[marcoT0425]

C5, because I didn’t condense the glyph of the base of B6.

[marcoT0425]

C6 is OK

[Mercury13]

So, where’s the font?

[marcoT0425]

The font is WIP