Doings things in the right order, redux
OK, so I started drawing Rodeo as an outline font with further details inside. And that wasn’t too much of a problem as I was only doing a few letters for a competition entry.
But then it started to grow. Now I’ve drawn a full lower case, upper case and small caps. And it’s occurred to me (too late, as usual) that it would have been better to design it as a solid font first. Fewer points to worry about that way when tweaking it. Easier to scale/interpolate glyphs to make better small caps. Easier even to see when curves aren’t quite as smooth as they could be.
And once the solid glyphs were down it would be a very simple process to make an outline version, and a version with the internal stars and stripes. Then I’d have three fonts for the price of one.
I really am learning all this the hard way, aren’t I?
