RM Entrees

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by p2pnut

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Based on an idea from the Ent-wife it took a long time to arrive ... but then Ents are never hasty ... hhrrrrrmmmmnnnnhhhhh ... no, never hasty.
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Created on 14th July 2009. Last edited on 30th October 2009.
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34 Comments

Hope it meets with Frodo7's approval :)

Comment by p2pnut 25th july 2009

Holy crap! This is awesome.

Comment by aphoria 25th july 2009

incredible! so beautifully made... the little branches with the leaves, the seamless connection with the roots, the gnarled yet perfectly readable look - chapeau! this would work perfectly on the cover of a fantasy book/fairy tale.
my only suggestion would be to copy all the letters on the lowercase without the connecting roots (sometimes you might not want them), and to make a space-wide connecting root on the underscore so you can let seperate words grow together...

Comment by Tobias Sommer (shasta) 25th july 2009

Wow. I'm floored.

If this isn't proof of FontStruct's greatness and your mastery of said FontStruct, I don't know what is.

Comment by thalamic 25th july 2009

Tree-mendous.

Reminds me of the film Sleepy Hollow by Tim Burton featuring Johnny Depp. The headless horseman's twisted tree. Very mystical.

Comment by djnippa 25th july 2009

Thanks for the comments. They mean a lot coming from people who actually know what they are talking about :)

shasta - I have de-rooted all the letters and placed them on the lower case ... hadn't realised how many brick-stacks I had done on the original till I started copying! I will follow up on the connecting root underscore idea soon.

Comment by p2pnut 25th july 2009

this is great. much character and nuance. and great technique. interesting i think the cases should be switched - not that it matters - especially with all the brickstacking :) but i think lc as connected would flow better visually and have uc as non-rooted. like i said - not that it matters, you only have to switch uc and lc to get the same effect :) and still magnificent.

Comment by funk_king 25th july 2009

Spacing on E needs to be sorted out.

Comment by djnippa 25th july 2009

What a treet!

Great attention to detail. Love the overlapping branches.

Comment by geneus1 25th july 2009

@nippa - cheers ... have checked all the spacing again.

@funk_king - I'm a gibbering wreck at the mere thought of transposing the lc and uc :)

Comment by p2pnut 25th july 2009

Now that's what I call efficiency. Pretty fast job on the derooting! And a good one too... The sample text looks beautiful like this, I think I even start to see some poetic deeper truth of nature behind a fox jumping over a dog when it's written like this. ;)
Are you a gibbering wreck at the mere thought of making numerals too? ;)

Comment by Tobias Sommer (shasta) 25th july 2009

n n n n numerals?

I might give them a go before too long ... I may even include a few punction glyphs sometime.

In the meantime, I also want to add lower-case to my Alphabox family (mustn't ignore the little ones). I have been trying to find out whether it is possible to cut & paste from one font to another ... otherwise I will have to create a fresh lc for each variation. It's not that I am too lazy to do so, it's just that it seems such a long-winded way of doing it.

Comment by p2pnut 25th july 2009

Before doing other variations.
I find it's best to complete a font as fully as possible - numerals, punctuation, European Set, Spacing, Alternatives, Tweaking, and more tweaking. Only when I'm 100% sure it's complete do I then decide to do clones. Otherwise it's a nightmare. :-)

Comment by djnippa 26th july 2009

All part of the learning curve I guess. I'll remember your sage advice next time

Comment by p2pnut 26th july 2009

nippa has a good point. There is no copy-and-paste between fonts, unfortunately.

Comment by aphoria 26th july 2009

I wonder if that would be a possibility for a future version of FS?

Comment by p2pnut 26th july 2009

Very tree-ish indeed.

"Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold;"

JRRT gives us inspiration in many ways.

Comment by Frodo7 27th july 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Entrees” is now a Top Pick.

Comment by gferreira_admin 27th july 2009

Fantastic work!

Regarding copy&paste between fonts: I agree this would be a great feature to have.

Comment by gferreira_admin 27th july 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Entrees” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

Comment by gferreira_admin 31st july 2009

gorgeous! I love this font :)

Comment by KaliDava 31st july 2009

Awesome, great work!

Comment by Hirkani 4th august 2009

WOW!! This is by far my favorite font. Awesome!

Comment by jinx 5th august 2009

Holy mother of cricket, that's a MIGHTY NICE FONT YOU HAVE THERE!!! I'll do, do, do, so, do, so, love it!

Comment by DaveFlash 10th august 2009

Three words:
Best Font Ever.
Thank you for sharing! :D

Comment by Emiguin10 16th august 2009

This font is a good one. From its outstanding design, to its humerous name(Entrees--enTREES). This font is very enjoyable. But tell me: what trees are these, and what inspired you, p2pnut, to make this?

Comment by Mel O'Mann (aaaalllleeeexxxx) 4th september 2009

@aaaalllleeeexxxx: The idea came from the Ents (especially Treebeard) from The Lord Of The Rings. The trees are just fantasy.

Comment by p2pnut 5th september 2009

I see the numbers coming... nice! :-)

Comment by gferreira_admin 23rd october 2009

Beautiful numbers. This font is a pinnacle of fontstructing.

Comment by Frodo7 24th october 2009

Well, I think that's it for now - hope the additions make it a tad more useable.