{"id":256,"date":"2009-02-27T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-06-14T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:25:51","slug":"%e2%80%9cdeliscript%e2%80%9d-font-preview-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDeliscript\u201d Font Preview: Followup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Thank You<\/strong><\/em><\/span> to those who took the time to take a look at my preliminary ideas for &#8220;Deliscript&#8221;. A few of you confirmed some thoughts that had already entered my mind about how to approach this font:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2100\" title=\"Basic RGB\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest stumbling block for me was that with the large caps that I initially conceived this font as having, there was a problem if one chose not to set an underscore (such as when setting more than one word): the caps would then appear too large. <a href=\"http:\/\/x-factor-e.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/typezilla.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus<\/a> both suggested reducing the cap size to align with the baseline. Initially I thought that might make the caps too small. But when I tried it out it seemed to work fine\u2014admittedly it took some getting used to after seeing the cap so grandiose at the beginning of the word:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2101\" title=\"Basic RGB\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it seems to work fine if one chooses not to set the underscore:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli31.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2102\" title=\"Basic RGB\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or even without the extended crossbars on the &#8220;t&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli41.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2103\" title=\"Basic RGB\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/deli41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that doing it this way will give the font more flexibility. Perhaps I could still include a set of the larger caps as an extra for more dramatic effect. I haven&#8217;t yet figured out what I&#8217;ll do about the lighter weight. I&#8217;m not that crazy about it, so I was kinda surprised to see both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overspraybook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norman<\/a> and Marcus commenting that they were partial to it. I&#8217;ll have to think on that, but any more comments on <em>any of this<\/em> would really be welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge Thank You to those who took the time to take a look at my preliminary ideas for &#8220;Deliscript&#8221;. A few of you confirmed some thoughts that had already entered my mind about how to approach this font: The biggest stumbling block for me was that with the large caps that I initially conceived this font as having, there was a problem if one chose not to set an underscore (such as when setting more than one word): the caps would then appear too large. Jos\u00e9 and Marcus both suggested reducing the cap size to align with the baseline. Initially I thought that might make the caps too small. 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