Making Rig Sans, Part 2I’d like Rig Sans to include a wide choice of weights, from a very &lsq
Making Rig Sans, Part 2I’d like Rig Sans to include a wide choice of weights, from a very ‘Thin’ style at the lightest to a ‘Black’ at the heavier extreme. These descriptive terms are what the graphic designer sees when using the final font. However, the type designer is free to choose whatever terms they like and manually assign them to specific weight measurements within their font. These weights however do refer to a specific width measurement within the font: the average stem width. Stems are the upright strokes in any character, such as an H, T, I, b, f, 1 etc.My original, Rig Shaded, had three weights: Light, Medium and Bold*. These were created with two Masters** whose weights were Light, with a stem width of 47, and Bold at 158.Because I’d like a thinner weight at around 35 and blacker weight at nearer 200, I’m eventually going to need to draw a couple of extreme Masters. NB. If I was starting the design from scratch I’d create these Masters first and likely include a mid-weight Master for my Regular.To help figure out the exacts weights that I want to include I created a few distribution tests (shown above). I can then ensure a smooth distribution of weight and make sure my Regular weight is where I want it on the scale. In the image above, I’ve used my two Masters and extrapolated the weights not in my current scale. I’ve stated out using a ‘Pablo Distribution’*** and adjusted it a little. *I also had ‘Zero’ weight but that’s not useful here.**You can read more on Masters and Instances here.•••You can read up on distribution methods hereSee all of my typefaces on Adobe Fonts -- source link
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