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Featuring a cameo appearance by [info]prickvixen. This one sat on my screen at about 90% finished for most of this week.
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If this is your format for the court cards, what symbol do you plan to use for Knights?

You may want to use the regular-width numerals in the minors for consistency with this, in which case I should send you a current version of the font, because I've revisited the numerals and fixed many minor weight and balance problems (what you spotted in the 9 is just one example). And the old 3 was, in retrospect, a crap compromise between pointed and rounded. It's pointed now, and if users want a rounded one they can pick it out of the Cyrillic alphabet; both are better.

That's a question I've been asking myself, to be honest. I'm giving serious thought to just drawing little icons for King/Queen/Knight/(Knave|Page|Princess). I don't want to follow the usual route of writing "Queen of Swords" on the card: it takes up a lot of space, and it's not internationalization-friendly.

Of course, that means I need to come up with icons for those four things.

(The Golden Dawn's 'Book T' also assigns elemental flavors to each of them, above and beyond the elemental flavor of their suit. So I could expose this by using icons for fire/water/air/earth for K/Q/Kg/P, making it explicit rather than implicit that, for instance, the Queen of Swords is the 'water of air'.)

edit: and yes, feel free to send the revised font! I go back and forth between the regular and condensed numbers and really need to decide.

Edited at 2007-12-03 02:19 am (UTC)

The model will no doubt be glad to know she is doubly dug.