A sort of blackletter with no historical references.
0 is meant for layering of the drop-caps.
It needs extended latin characters and diacritics, but you can typeset Latin with it! :-)
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Created on 9th October 2010. Last edited on 11th May 2025.
These drop caps are just gorgeous! All the more impressive considering the 45° angle constraint. Well done.
One suggestion: flip the U horizontally. The current form reads, but that spur on the left side feels out of place to me. Will flipping break the polish of the design motif too much? Perhaps another solution can be found without adding too many novel rules just for the one character...
Thank you for the kind words! :-)
Caps were the hardest ones (which I think it’s the norm with blackletters ;-)
After some struggle, I’m pretty satisfied with the stencil-like result.
About the U, you’re right (especially comparing it with lowercase u and v). I haven’t just flipped it for the reason you already guessed.
I will experiment further.
(Though I’m not sure I can change it during the competition’s review time)
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One suggestion: flip the U horizontally. The current form reads, but that spur on the left side feels out of place to me. Will flipping break the polish of the design motif too much? Perhaps another solution can be found without adding too many novel rules just for the one character...
love the lowercase as well... well balanced.
Caps were the hardest ones (which I think it’s the norm with blackletters ;-)
After some struggle, I’m pretty satisfied with the stencil-like result.
About the U, you’re right (especially comparing it with lowercase u and v). I haven’t just flipped it for the reason you already guessed.
I will experiment further.
(Though I’m not sure I can change it during the competition’s review time)
I suppose that means I now need to get serious about proper punctuation and language support... ;-)
I'm gonna Xpand™ this!
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