Brooks Moses wrote:
At 02:16 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:08 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Very nice! I would like them to lay closer to a standard baseline, though,
I'm not sure what you mean by "lay closer to a standard baseline". The baseline of the glyph inside the key is aligned with text outside the key. I waffled back and forth trying to find the most attractive position while building the font. The majority of keycaps fonts I looked at chose the same baseline.
Having looked at the uploaded .pdf, I agree: very nice!
I do agree with Nikolai that there appears at first glance to be a bit of a baseline problem. As you mention, though, the baselines are "right". The actual difficulty, in my opinion, is that the font is just a bit too small, and so the _tops_ of the keys are too low -- it looks odd for them to be lower than the tops of the capital letters, when the depth of the keys is so large.
Why not just center the characters? No problem for most of them since they have the same height (due to the upppercase char); All keyboards are different in positioning, so it does not hurt that much. By centering on gets a better look and feel. Concerning the 'construct a key' approach, how about the following: - provide shapes for a single, double-wide, tripple-wide, tripple height, enter-shape keys. - next we can make a series of virtual fonts using the new condensed latin modern (sans or monospaced) that way also keyboards for other languages can be constructed; I guess that a simple perl/ruby script can construct the virtual font. Nice initiative Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------