I haven't seen a list of BIPOC designers that are on Adobe Fonts, but the largest list of BIPOC type designers I know of is Black Type Designers by Stephen Coles. You could cross reference that with the Adobe Fonts Designers page.
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>Since I am still a student, I am not financially ready to purchase fonts
Many type foundries have written or unwritten policies to help students by giving them discounted or even free font licenses. Contact the type designer or foundry directly if there's no information about student licenses on their website – most of them love hearing from students.
It's also important to get the spacing(adjusting side-bearings in each glyph/letter) nailed down as good as possible. Meaning first make it look as good as is possibly can without doing adjustments to specific pairs(kerning). To get the spacing right, try many different texts.
But hand written fonts can be tricky to space due to their organic characteristics. And like /u/RobMcDesign said it might benefit from having some logic for alternating common glyphs to create a more realistic handwritten feeling. Here's a tutorial for Glyphs showing how it can be done.
That’s a very good start , nice work. but you need some refinement, like adjusting optical contrast for all round letters like a,b,d,h,r,u,p,q,n and m. you need to review some proportions of some letters as well like y , t and maybe k and j too , they need to be a little bit large in comparison with another letters.
The S need some too polish , the S is one of the most difficult letters to draw :/.
That’s a excellent beginning i wold be proud :) type design is difficult because we need to practice our optical eye and this take time.
I suggest you see some references, like Dosis or Omnes
https://www.dardenstudio.com/typefaces/omnes_pro?ftype=supf#family_outing
u/TheCuone posted an example of Russian architecture and engineering type in r/typography a couple of days ago. I thought it was a great, almost art deco inspired typeface and I really wanted to create an English version.
I used Fontself and it made things go a lot faster than I would have thought.
I've been a designer for a number of years, but I've never actually specifically pushed out a useable typeface before. This is specifically for display and not for body copy. I can just imagine the eye strain.
I'm sure there are going to be some issues, but let me know what you think!
There are things you can do to help in the process.
One example: Use class kerning. Group objects with similar visual profiles together into a kern class.
Take /D:
/O and /D are similar on the right side
/H and /S are similar on the left side.
Therefore: Group /D with /H on the Left. Group /D with /O on the Right
This way, when you kern /O/V, you also have entered the same value for /D/V
If you're using Glyphs you can read more here: https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/kerning
This is an excellent question. Please get yourself a copy of Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style 4.0. This will be one of your most valuable books as a type designer and will be a useful resource time and time again. (It's also valuable for typesetting and layout - you'll want good typography to promote your type.) The Appendix "The Working Alphabet" in the back will be exactly what you're looking for. I sometimes use this section lists on a daily basis.
Are you using software such as FontLab? Many international languages use Latin + an additional marking which modifies the letter. So as long as those markings have been designed, and specified as to where they would connect on a Latin character, the software can automatically combine these elements and generate the international characters for you.
So, I did some digging.
The earliest example of a dotted zero I could find was a char set for a 1971 IBM Terminal 3270. However, it seems a dotted zero stayed pretty niche until it was included in the OS font for IBM PCs. Those fonts were included with MS-DOS, which pretty much every PC clone run. Because of that, every PC user until mid 90s was using dotted zeros everyday when operating DOS.
Curiously, it wasn't made, as I thought, because of space constrains (even the low-rez CGA/EGA fonts are quite big pixel-wise), but to avoid confusion with both the Scandinavian vowel "Ø" and the "empty set" symbol "∅" or even 8! As on some lower end displays the slashed zero could be mistaken for 8. From what I read, it didn't really solve the 8 problem (it still could be confused for 8 on some displays), but as computing started becoming more and more international, it was seen as a good enough solution to avoid issues with Ø.
So in general, we have IBM to thank for the popularization of dotted 0. Today, it's mostly an aesthetic choice (as with high-resolution we can clearly see a difference between a 0 and O) used pretty much exclusively in monospace fonts designed for programming (I say pretty much, but I haven't found a non-monospaced font that uses it...yet). In fact, the new IBM font (IBM Plex) that is used in their branding does use a dotted 0 in the monospace variant.
Important: Critique/Suggestions required/welcomed
Here's a Greek extension I make for Varela Round. This is made by borrowing (stealing?) other parts of the font and drawing them myself. This is to be used with other fonts but currently I'll leave this for Varela Round.
Here's the font file. (expires in 7 days)
This font is released under the same license as Varela Round, i.e. SIL Open Font License. Critiques and modifications are welcomed as I'm still new to making fonts.
P/S: Incomplete basic Cyrillic set is in the font file too. You can take a view and give suggestion for those too.
PP/S: I don't speak Greek or Cyrillic so I definitely need help on this n the upcoming Cyrillic expansion, thanks!
Your prof is a shitty prof for distributing cracked software.
Glyphs offers a 30 day free trial, which will likely cover the project you are working on. Or you can buy a student discounted version. Or heck, just email them and say you don't have the money and ask if there's anything they can do to help.
Don't contribute to the cycle of theft.