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Well, we've finished the test version of website - so, in nearest days I'll be sharing it for testing and would MUCH appreciated your feedback regarding anything. Because we'll be adding fixes based on your feedback!
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The aesthetic cohesion is amazing, and it looks great.
I would like to add a dose of caution around text fonts. It's not my specialty, but I've dipped into the boat loads of advice / instruction from those more knowledgeable.
I do think that I can point out a few specific characters that ought to be considered for a second pass.
lower case l is the character that I take 2nd most issue with (after I), even in standard fonts due to its ambiguity, and it's worse in this one, especially as i lost its dot.
That t is also over the ambiguity line, both with the common f and rarer j.
I honestly misread "like" as "the", which is rare for me. Other misreads, like "slumbee" instead of "slumber" are less problematic, but still cause reader stumbling, which hugely dings immersion.
It's very, very easy to reduce and harm the readability of text via artistic flair, so don't worry about the "mistake" of it. From a certain perspective, a singular artist is in direct competition with a few hundred years of typographical evolution for the task of legibility, and I think it's safe to say that it's the expected outcome for artists to end up below that bar when they attempt something like this.
If you've already got your font this well developed, I think it's totally usable with some revision. You might specifically prompt commenters to ask for misreads, which is a rather straightforward way to test your font against the evolved norm.
On the off chance you have not, I would seek out an explicit guide around "how to make a great font" or something to that effect, as it can just save time experimenting / revising.
An alternative that's gained head-space is the "opt out" of font styling popularized by the "use subreddit style" toggle box.
Enabling the artist to do whatever speaks to them, while enabling those who prefer to opt-out / "translate" the text after they've seen it in its artistic form, so they can then gain the unambiguous information contained within that art.
Basically, mixing art with the closest thing we can conceive to "raw information" is hard as fuck.
I would like to add a dose of caution around text fonts. It's not my specialty, but I've dipped into the boat loads of advice / instruction from those more knowledgeable.
I do think that I can point out a few specific characters that ought to be considered for a second pass.
lower case l is the character that I take 2nd most issue with (after I), even in standard fonts due to its ambiguity, and it's worse in this one, especially as i lost its dot.
That t is also over the ambiguity line, both with the common f and rarer j.
I honestly misread "like" as "the", which is rare for me. Other misreads, like "slumbee" instead of "slumber" are less problematic, but still cause reader stumbling, which hugely dings immersion.
It's very, very easy to reduce and harm the readability of text via artistic flair, so don't worry about the "mistake" of it. From a certain perspective, a singular artist is in direct competition with a few hundred years of typographical evolution for the task of legibility, and I think it's safe to say that it's the expected outcome for artists to end up below that bar when they attempt something like this.
If you've already got your font this well developed, I think it's totally usable with some revision. You might specifically prompt commenters to ask for misreads, which is a rather straightforward way to test your font against the evolved norm.
On the off chance you have not, I would seek out an explicit guide around "how to make a great font" or something to that effect, as it can just save time experimenting / revising.
An alternative that's gained head-space is the "opt out" of font styling popularized by the "use subreddit style" toggle box.
Enabling the artist to do whatever speaks to them, while enabling those who prefer to opt-out / "translate" the text after they've seen it in its artistic form, so they can then gain the unambiguous information contained within that art.
Basically, mixing art with the closest thing we can conceive to "raw information" is hard as fuck.
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