Raleway Metafizzy

4 Responses

1. David DeSandro

   I'd like to use Matt McInerney's Raleway for branding for a new site: Metafizzy. I'm not a fan of how the crossbar of the lowercase f lies below the x-height. "f" looks okay all by itself, but when put against a square-shaped letter like "z" the mis-match is apparent.
   
   Lately Firefox has been taken a lot of heat as WebKit continues to dominate with sexier CSS features. But those users still stubborn enough to use Firefox do get OpenType ligatures when present. So Metafizzy looks all the more slick with the "fi" ligature.
   
   With Mr. McInerney's blessing, I'm giving a shot at tweaking it myself. I'm using FontForge (with its whoa-thats-ugly-AND-pixelated interface) to go in and change the glyphs.

   over 1 year ago

2. André Mora

   Looking good. The two Zs in 'fizz' still seem to overwhelm the 'fi', even when the crossbar is brought up. But that may always be a symptom of this font (relative widths). Have you tried Matt's suggestion (on Twitter) to raise the ascenders?

   over 1 year ago

3. Pro Ian Storm Taylor

   I'll look forward to the unveiling!

   Only problem is that the spacing after the 'f' will probably be a bit too large on everything now that the crossbar's higher. It's most obvious in the 'fu' and 'fy', but still shows in the 'fl'. Might not be as noticeable at smaller sizes though.

   If you wanna give your eyes a break, know about Glyphs? Not used it, but might be nicer ;p

   over 1 year ago

4. David DeSandro

   @THE STORM totally forgot about Glyphs. Going to give that a try. Thanks for the reminder :)

   over 1 year ago