Making the rest of the family

I started making KK Sans because I wanted to understand type better,[, and !`. The default zero is dotted now, with a plain-zero alternate. I’ve also made the figures fuller within their cells, including extending the angled top stroke on 1 so it reaches further to the left. Equal widths leave you with quite a lot of work to make the characters look as though they occupy the space properly. I’ve spent more time than expected adjusting the feet and crossbars on letters like f, r, and t. More recently, the m looked too much like two ns next to each other. Berkeley Mono was a useful reference whilst revisiting that shape and the shoulder joins, and I went back over the stroke weight across the family to make it feel more consistent. The symbols needed their own attention. The @ needed to read more clearly, and the percent and infinity signs needed more open shapes. Those are easy characters to overlook when you’re mostly looking at words, then surprisingly distracting once you’re using…

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