Aaron Sittig's picture   Gematria is something of a mix between
a grotesque and a humanist sans. I wanted a sans serif less
funky than Helvetica, but with more character than the recent
super generic sans like Myriad. It's also a reaction against the
trend towards increasing x-height and counter-sizes. The
ascenders and descenders are large and in charge, close to the
elegant proportions of Futura. The counters are dimished,
recalling the time before readability trumped character. The
intersections of lines are heavy, trapping be damned, increasing
contrast not only between but within glyphs.   I've just wrapped
up the basic upper case. I'm mostly satisfied with the structure
of all the characters. Work still remains to weight some
characters properly (see: g, all the triangular upper case).
Spacing is messy. Right now it's probably too closely set, but
this is my fifth complete iteration on the lower case metrics.
I'm having a tough time finding the right looseness to make it
easy to pick out words quickly (