In reply to White space according to Gerrit Noordzij and my Thesis on street painting:
Uh, that's not a post, that's a book. :-)
A couple of possibly useful points though:
- For scripts I have nativity in (Armenian, Latin, Arabic) my
main goal has become to be progressive*; whereas for scripts I
don't have nativity in I either remain safely imitative or when
I do dare to be pushy I make sure to consult a native (like I did
with Akhalkalak).
- In terms of formal analysis I do rely in part on letter
frequencies, which become especially relevant in multi-script
font families. http://themicrofoundry.com/ss_rome1.html
* Although for Arabic I haven't yet produced
such fonts - it's all been sketch work so far.
** http://themicrofoundry.com/f_akhalkalak.html
http://www.slavic.ucla.edu/people/faculty/ivanov/
BTW, sign painting is indeed lettering.
hhp
