Character Sheets, the thing that will reveal all your flaws

For S&W Dark, one of my design goals was to create an alternative set of rules that would work with any existing OSR module/book/supplement. I thought I had it down, then I started making the character sheets....

I wanted to make the sheets informative as possible so that there was no need to open a rule book. In the process of laying out a first draft of the character sheets I started seeing cracks in my design. Seeing all the classes sheets in layout I started seeing how inconsistent some of my choices were. This was eye opening as I thought that I was pretty much done with the design portion. One positive of this was that seeing a snapshot of the classes helped quickly do some re-writes to create, what I believe, is a much more coherent set of rules. 

My I hope to have the sheets up later today, but wanted to post a quick update on this. 

In future projects I want to create a cheat sheet of sorts or detailed character sheets as a means of checking for cohesiveness and consistency in whatever system I'm working in.