Timetable Reflection

Overall the timetable for my thesis has shifted a lot. It took a lot longer to get the basis of the font system down than I originally thought. However, with the basis of the system done, the pace of creating characters has sped up. While I am still behind what I originally planned to be, I would at the vastest think that by mid-April all 3 writing system glyphs will be complete too. Granted this isn’t taken in the time to consider revision and adjustments. So, the goal is by the end of March to have Latin and Cyrillic completed and Hebrew halfway done. This means by mid-April I want Hebrew to be completed, this gives a small window to complete additional items for the SOURCE presentation. Which means more items are going to start to overlap more, I’m planning to go ahead and start in use photos now and creating kerning pairs for the currently completed glyphs, whilst working on the remains glyphs. Due to this set back I am currently sacking the plan to do lowercase glyphs, I still plan to do them, but probably won’t have complete drafts in time for the SOURCE presentation.

Current work Percentages:
  • Latin - ~80%
  • Cyrillic - ~40%
  • Hebrew - 0%

These percentages are rough guesses on where I am currently within the current writing systems.


Latin System Progress

Currently, most of the Latin is system is complete. There are 8 glyphs that I have marked as major concerns:
  • C
  • G
  • J
  • K
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T

3 of these glyphs currently have no too little progress completed, while the rest need minor adjustments to better fit the system or just feel off compared to the rest of the system. These are just the major changes, overall a lot of characters just need very minor adjustments.


Cyrillic System Progress

Work has started on Cyrillic, which for the most part a decent portion of the glyphs are very similar to the Latin system. I have created some of the Cyrillic specific glyphs. The transition into this system has been fairly smooth, due to what was just mentioned.

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