Gregory's ServerFont size test, part 2.
📦 Download the fonts, alpha 0.1: https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/documents/2024-04-20_DeevadHand_alpha1.zip (265KB, Open Font License)
David Revoy
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月の兎 :moonrabbit:
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Deevadhand is more in that sweetspot, nice and clear. Readable for me. 
David Revoy
@shred Thank you! This font is supposed to be a Small Caps one ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps ) and I already differentiated for example the I of the i. So, with a bit more work, I can probably makes the capital a little bit taller, so the start of sentence works better and it might fix the situation in German. Thank you for this feedback, it give me a wider view of possible future problems that might be easier to solve now .
Saverio Brancaccio
@davidrevoy This is really readable to me at all sizes, great work!
maswan
@davidrevoy The bold is much bolder and is actually visibly different, and the É et al I find clearer in Deevahand. Nice!
David Revoy
@maswan Thank you! Yes, I changed all the font to be a Small Caps one, so I can copy/paste the line of my scenario and it should render well. I could differentiate the I of the i this way. I'll probably makes some real capital a bit more interesting for when I start a sentence.
AxelStieglbauer
@davidrevoy Steinig this font in use and comparing it to the last one (Kalam), I can read Kalam better. IMHO there are too many straight vertical lines in Deevadhand (and it is too narrow). Perhaps it is more readable when in cursive and a little bit more space between the characters.
David Revoy
@AxelStieglbauer Hey, I had same feeling with Kalam (that's why I put it in the demo speechbubble, and it had a green checker next to it) but also, I have some troubles (slight dyslexia, dysgraphia too) and what is readable for me is often not something agreed universally.
Amic
@davidrevoy Je retravaillerais le M : sur la petite bulle, je vois HUMBLE ou HUHBLE suivant comment mon œil cligne. Et d’accord avec les commentaires disant d’espacer un peu plus verticalement (et un peu plus peut-être certains passages en gras, par exemple sur VA c’est ok mais pas sur OU et OW).
David Revoy
@amic Merci pour le retour Amic!
A Sweet Gentleman
@davidrevoy It's a very pleasant font to read, I even managed to read the 12px.
Elvith Ma'for
@davidrevoy saw it in the feed reader and then checked this post in Tusky. I like it and it's really good readable in all sizes - only the 12px font suffers from the slight blur in the preview in Tusky. But then - comparing blurred and resized images with what you intended is not the goal here.
David Revoy
@elvith Thank you, yes the 12px is really dangerous area. I'll not use it. 14px, maybe for small joke or private joke; rarely. Or when acharacter speaks really low volume or mumble.
Jaded Northman ᛆᛁᛓ
@davidrevoy Huah, that was quick work. I like this font; it's looking clean! (screenshot specs: OP8T, using Moshidon)
David Revoy
@JadedNorthman Thank you! Oh yes, I put a big block of 10h on it. Font is a bit endless work, I'll probably continue on the fly while producing the episode. So many little things I want to improve. 
Patty Kimura
@davidrevoy Prefer deevahand for clarifying the I as i, with the dot. And straightening the slant. I work with elderly and as a person with visual issues: deevahand, hands down. 14 point fine.
David Revoy
@pattykimura Thank you very much! As soon I posted it, I felt a bit bugged with how the jpg compression and scaling sort of connect some letters horizontal. I'll probably need to inject a tiny bit more spacing between letters, just for readability. But that will be minor improvement down the production.
Marco Bresciani
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David Revoy
@AAMfP Thank you! I plan to differentiate (slightly) the capital letter, right now the I/i are different, because it works better this way with English for the start of the sentence. on a grammar POV, it should be correct for a Small Caps font. 
Slatian
@davidrevoy Happy to report that it also works pretty well in akkoma/pleroma with it’s downscaling to fit inside a 16:9 box. 14px is where readability stops for me. And thanks for making the font file available :drgn_heart:
David Revoy
@john Thank you for the feedback! Yes, the M is more problematic than what I thought, especially at this size. Thanks for mentioning it, it will be a high priority to fix it. The Italic variant is a font, but this one is just using some transform filter, and I probably put too much angle in it. A fun fact, the Bold and Italic of Patrick Hand is actually faux bold and italic, generated by Qt probably in Krita text tool. So, the faux italic of PatrickHand is actually better than my italic. 😆 |
@davidrevoy need to squint a lil bit but could read the bubbles fine (except the one that mumble the size font)