Progress
Initial sketch work has allowed me to flow the type easily for a relaxed look, for the first stages I am abandoning baselines and x-heights, I would rather get a feel for the type at this point before I add any rules to it.
This typeface is hand sketched but I would like to begin to touch it up using illustrator and expanding the type for scalability, this will be used at very small point sizes and not used in Fontographer.
The O glyph is the most important for me in this type, having the counter slightly larger to the left of the axis helps make the type look hand rendered and relaxed in its appearance. This will hopefully give the counter shape to all the other letters.
Each glyph is separate, allowing me to manipulate the lettering to create various ligatures between the letters.
Almost completed one version of the type in use for Nathaniel, several glyphs are off and need tweaking but overall it is looking much better than I anticipated. I have used a rough structure with a baseline and X-hieght, the Cap height is very large at this stage.
Final
Each letter has deviated slightly from the main typeface I created which allows for various ligatures for an erganomic feel, the final typeface is featured below.
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