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Aspects of quality for a typeface

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I've been thinking on this today, and I've quickly written up a few things that I find to be the main points that make a typeface of quality. I would love to know if anyone has something to add to this list. 

I feel like I lose site of a lot of these overarching themes when I'm in drawing mode, so I'm trying to make a comprehensive list of things to think about so I can constantly be assessing them while I'm drawing. Any additional thoughts would be appreciated!

  • concept 
  • does it solve a problem? 
  • who will use it? 
  • why are you making it?
quality of drawing
  • individual glyphs are drawn well
spacing
  • do the negative and positive shapes harmonize with each other?
features
  • does it have interesting alternates & ligatures?
expansiveness
  • How many weights does it have? 
  • does it have alternate styles?

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