The Process of Creating A Regular
I realised that my typeface was more of a semi bold / bold than a regular. As I intended on producing a bold and a regular for my typeface, I decided to use my current font as a bold, and create a thinner regular.
In the newest version of Glyphs, you are able to add or minus a stroke to your shapes, helping with creating characters at different weights. However, the version I have does not allow it. I could not afford to buy the newer version (it's 200 Euros), so found a way round it.
Obviously in Illustrator you can add strokes to shapes, which is the way I decided to work.
The Process Itself
First I took the bold into Illustrator, and added a white stroke. I then copied the shape back into Glyphs.
The shape copied into Glyphs:
Unfortunately, the nodes are all in the wrong place, and have to be manually adjusted for each character, a VERY time consuming process. However it guarantees a consistency and the quality needed for a typeface.
The nodes re-adjusted and the new form:
To Do
I highlighted all the characters that needed to be put into bold:
Creating a regular colon:
Creating a regular asterisk:
Adjusting the question mark:
Readjusting Diacritics
I looked as my diacritics as a whole, and realised they weren't consistant in their height. I added global guidelines, allowing adjustment to the same height easy.
Current progress:
Adjusting the tilde:
You can see the difference in quality from adjusting the nodes:
Curent progress:
You can see that most of the latin characters are complete, but the mathematic characters need lots of work:
Regular and bold mathematic characters - These were designed all together to create consistency.
Creating the regular section sign:
ALMOST DONE
A week of intense hard work later, I have created all 432 characters for the regular.
