I ran across this fascinating article by Kris Sowersby, a professional font designer who wrote about his font-design process using the creation of his font Newzalt as an example. Concept doodles through to a general outline of the marketing of the font, including kerning (for all you kerning fans, you know who you are), mastering, scripts and applications that he uses along the way. The attention to detail floored me, although maybe it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Newzalt was almost TWO YEARS in the making!
Question: Sowersby starts with a certain letter that “defines the stems, serifs, contrast and relative widths for everything else.” What letter would that be? Go take a look.
