Rodeo Heavy, a first sample
Phew – I think I’ve reached the point now where I’m fairly happy with the glyphs in the font I’ve been making. Happy enough to try a proper sample anyway – I expect to tweak more soon.
Click image to view/download the PDF
As I may have mentioned already, this started out from an entry to a type battle at typophile.com basedon stars-and-stripes fonts. I’m beginning to think though that this font might be better without the stars in the caps. Or perhaps I could make the default caps have no stars but keep the starred versions as stylistic alternates. (Yay for Opentype features!)
I suppose once I’m finally happy with the glyphs it would be quick enough to create a solid version, or another outline version without the stripes.
Anyway, take a look and see what you think. If I’ve done this right then clicking on the image above will let you view/download the PDF sample. Any thought/comments are welcome.
I like it a lot!
The idea of using the starred glyphs as alternates is a great one, I think. The wider “s” makes much more sense to me than the narrower one. Likewise with the thinner “C”.
Nice work!