Like a Runaway Glacier
18-19 by krautwald.
I had forgotten just how tedious font design can be when you’re doing it right. Back in the day, when Fontosaurus was putting out 1-2 free fonts a week, I was able to take designs from sketch to production in a matter of hours. But those were free fonts, with incomplete character sets and kerning and spacing that was, um, a bit on the side of sloppy?
Part of the reason for the delay with the Fontosaurus updates is that I am rebuilding a great deal of my previous works — making them into what they should have been. And the new works are coming along slowly as well.
I do miss the methodical thinking that went along with this, though. So much of life is crash-and-burn now-now-now urgency that it’s nice to spend quiet time getting those glyphs “just right” before committing them to public consumption.
