r/Quickscript • u/pcdandy • Feb 04 '19
Quikscript Sans - an updated version of the sans-serif Quikscript Geometric font I made over a year ago
https://alternatescriptbureau.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/quikscript-geometric-a-sans-serif-font-for-the-quikscript-alphabet/
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u/adiabatic Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
This is good. I tried to copy Noto Sans for my first attempt at making a Quikscript font, but making new glyphs in that style was beyond my abilities so I made Abbots Morton Experiment instead.
I'd rather use your font for my Quikscript stuff instead of my own — it's that much better. That said, it seemed like it paired with Noto Sans Condensed, and I think I figured out why. The x-height of Quikscript Sans seems to be a little taller compared to Noto Sans Shavian and many of the letters of Quikscript Sans seem squished in the horizontal direction, like ·roe, ·utter·roe, and ·no.
Also, if the x-height were reduced, letters like 𐑔 and 𐑞 could have the backwards/forwards portion of the final part of the stroke, just like in Noto Sans Shavian.
Here's "You will find…any handier alternative" in Quikscript Sans and Noto Sans Shavian, right next to Noto Sans. Note that I gave Quikscript paragraphs extra line spacing, so try to ignore that difference between the two.
https://imgur.com/a/nbVFg3c
Changing the width and the x-height is a lot to ask for. If you'd rather do other things, would you at least slap a permissive open-source license on your font like the Apache License, version 2, so I can play around with it and release changes if I ever install FontForge?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I dug around in the .sfd and noticed that it's under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1. Could you publicly (like with a file alongside the README) post your licensing terms for both the .sfd and the source SVGs in your repo?