Submission for tweaks: less slanted o, etc

[clort81]

Hi, thanks so much for this. It helps OpenMW a LOT, and it must have been a huge amount of work.

I don't have vector font design training or experience, but I have tweaked "o" to be less slanted in the center (looks closer to original).

My changes seem to have affected spacing between 'e' and '?' but i don't know why. Fontforge also gives errors on exporting font - so this shouldn't be considered release-quality.

But -- If you could take a look and see if you think something close to this would be an improvement, that'd be great.

Some other notes:

• "f" - Bottom tip is a bit narrow maybe? I made the point slightly less acute.

• "t" - I think the bump on the upper-left side needs a bit of convex curve, not diagonal line down to the left.

• "k" - top diagonal made a bit steeper

• "I" second line a bit lighter, but it doesn't really show at game resolution.

• At scale 1.8, the font looks sharper with increased resolution in openmw_font.xml. I prefer it sharper, but maybe it is too sharp for some tastes?

Pelagiadd.ttf.zip

Cheers Isaskar!

[Isaskar]

Hi! I haven't logged into github for years, nor have I seen any notifications, so I'm sorry I that I haven't been able to get to this earlier.

The "slanted" o is a feature of most serif fonts, to some degree. The o in Times New Roman is slightly slanted, although it's barely noticable unless you acvitely look for it. This is because of these fonts heritage in calligraphic script. In Magic Cards/EF Medieva, a font heavily based on medieval script, it is however very noticable. Have a look for yourself: https://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Magic_Cards_Normal.font

That being said, Pelagiad does seem to do this calligraphic effect to a more extreme degree than at least that particular version of Magic Cards. I'm not sure this is something that needs fixing - at least to my eyes the current o looks fine. It's also been a long time since I worked with fonts, and I'm not sure that's something I want to get back into. But who knows, maybe I'll sneak in a few tweaks eventually, if one of these days I find myself with nothing better to do. And this being an open source project, anybody is free to fork it and possibly create the new definitive version.

Either way, thank you for the kind words and good suggestions!