Bolt

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by Christian Munk (CMunk)

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I stacked some propeller bricks and some composites of the kite bricks, which allowed me to make a nice lightning bolt inside each letter's bowl.
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Created on 1st December 2014. Last edited on 7th January 2015.
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20 Comments

I like how the i and j together form a bolt-shaped gap, it would be very noticeable in Dutch (here, ĳ is a very common digraph)

Comment by minidonut 11th december 2014

awesome. period. actually, triple period. period.

Comment by Evie Atarax (j4s13) 12th december 2014

A well executed, beautiful design.

Comment by kassymkulov 12th december 2014

An electric design - very jazzy.

Comment by p2pnut 12th december 2014

I love being the first commenter :I

Comment by minidonut 12th december 2014

...there had to be an image, like so:

Comment by minidonut 12th december 2014

Thanks, all of you!

@minidonut: Yes, I know ij is commonly used in Dutch, but it was slightly by mistake. It is very hard to control metrics at this scale, so I added the digraph in extended latin A.

I've also added accents, most of them lightning-shaped. I'm not quite sure of the circumflex.

Comment by Christian Munk (CMunk) 13th december 2014

I would prefer these:

Comment by minidonut 14th december 2014

Cool! I like the circumflex and the tilde. But I think I'm keeping my round diaeresis.

Comment by Christian Munk (CMunk) 14th december 2014

Very clever, such a simple font, yet so aesthetically pleasing. 10/10

Comment by tortoiseshell 15th december 2014

@CMunk: You should include both a bolt-shaped umlaut for Hungarian and a dotted umlaut/dieresis for other languages.

Comment by jimhv 17th december 2014

Maybe for the double acute accents, two acute accents? :P Your acute and grave accents are more diagonal than my versions, and the diaeresis is, like, you know, straight-ish.

Comment by minidonut 17th december 2014

@minidonut, Yeah, I chose to go with your diaeresis, so I thought I'd change the acutes and graves, to differentiate them from dots.

@jimhv, Now I have made the double acutes. What do you think?

Comment by Christian Munk (CMunk) 17th december 2014

rj needs a kerning pair

Comment by minidonut 22nd december 2014

Well, r needs a kerning pair with nearly every other letter. I've put rj on the @ now.

Comment by Christian Munk (CMunk) 23rd december 2014

@CMunk: Your Hungarian umlaut is well done. Basic Latin is still missing some uppercase letters and numbers.

Comment by jimhv 28th december 2014

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Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 9th january 2015

Very effective!

Comment by four 14th january 2015

It looks incredible! The only thing to mention is that the 0 should have some contrast to the capital O.
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Maybe reverse the bolt there? I don't know. I love it! Definitely all 5 stars.

Comment by SilverfishJockey 8th april 2015