Now I’m going through the fonts glyph by glyph, finessing the letters and digits.

It’s dull work, though valuable, so I’ve also started a second entirely different font that I’ve had in mind for awhile.

It took about 60 hours total, though most of that was due to inefficiency: these were the first four fonts I’d made and so I was unfamiliar with both the process and the software. Also, though it’s a decorative font, I decided to go ahead and make the regular font, “italics,” “bold,” and “bold italics.” (The scare quotes are on those because the other fonts are really just different drawings of the same characters: a hack to allow an easy way to swap one B for another that’s slightly different, etc.)

They’re Unicode fonts, but they don’t have the full 1674 glyphs: I thought I’d have to know both Yiddish and Hebrew to stylize those characters without risking morphing them into something they’re not, so I just left them alone. I also didn’t add the Romanian characters, but if there should ever be a need for them I’d be willing to go back and add them.

The fonts all validate, for whatever that’s worth: no off-curve extreme coordinates, no contours with incorrect direction, no intersecting coordinates.

They look very good in Photoshop, not so good in MS Word.  But they print from Word with much finer detail than they’re shown with on screen.

The Proctor Zeus fonts are available here.

update: I had a redirect in the .htaccess file wrong earlier; it’s fixed now and font downloads work as they should.

I’m done with the regular and italics, halfway through the bold, not yet started on the bold italics, and thoroughly tired of the work.