Future Competition entry 2

A more legible version of hack.ed with punctuation

See also:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1748611/hack-ed

A retro-futuristic font loosely inspired by the "Yellow Submarine" album cover by The Beatles.

~Type an uppercase letter and type the corresponding (or some other) lowercase letter to fill in the shape.

You can use the uppercase letters to form one word and type the lowercase fill letters to form the same or another word, or fill with a blanking glyph to complete the letter with no center letter. So, two types of letters are possible with this one font.

The letters had to be designed such that the uppercase could read as a letter without a center fill on it's own, or filled with blank glyph, or with a center letter. In doing so, the font turned auto-stencil and auto-monospaced. Also, since the unfilled uppercase read as the correct letter with the hole in it, this fs can be said to have three fonts in it.

The gaps are 1/8 brick; the thickness of the inner letter strokes is 2/8 brick. Therefore, this limitation meant that the glyphs with a stroke in the horizontal center can either be lined up with the left side blocks or the right side one. Therefore, 3/8 brick thickness I and T are provided on { and }.

Letter couples are as follows: Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii or I{  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt or T}  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz

Number couples are: !1  @2  #3  $4  %5  ^6  &7  *8  (9  )0

Blanks: ~, space

Center blank: `

Pipe: = (which will offset the monospacing)

Others; ? is at ?/  ! is at |\

Punctuations are where they are supposed to be: .  ,  ;  :  '  "  ’  ”  ‘  “  -

Sample: Type the following in User Input to see the font as it is supposed to be:  A`AaB`BbC`CcD`DdE`EeF`FfG`GgH`HhI`IiI{J`JjK`KkL`LlM`MmN`NnO`OoP`PpQ`QqR`RrS`SsT`TtT}U`UuV`VvW`WwX`XxY`YyZ`Zz!`!1@`@2#`#3$`$4%`%5^`^6&`&7*`*8(`(9)`)0?`?/|`|\)-)+~_<>=

6 bricks tall.

The sample is a font pun: TWO in ONE.

PS: Not sure how future it is.

THIS IS MY THIRD AND FINAL ENTRY TO THE COMPETITION. MY LAST ENTRY WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING ELSE, BUT THAT GOT TAKEN DOWN FOR RICKROLL-RELATED REASONS.

An inclyned font. 

"A cell is merely 7 feet long and barely 5 feet wide." A poor translation of the famous lines of the Dutch poet Jan Campert. The same measurements hold for glyphs in Metafontstruct. Metafontstruct is not really a font, it is a concept. It is a fontstruct within fontstruct, one could say; or it is a new fontstruct, with even more constraints than the one we're all so font of. You can use it in your word processor to create the glyph you like on the spot. When you're finished you press the spacebar to create the next glyph. The keys QWER ASD ZXCV contain possibilities for the left side of the glyph, TYUIOP GHJKL BNM for the right side, and F;',./ for the middle. The capitals and numerals are just some examples of glyphs you can create. There's freedom within these boundaries, as we're all experiencing in these covidiotic times. If I may give another poor translation of a Dutch poem, by Jules Deelder, a famous poet from my home town who died last year: "Within the bounds the possibilities are just as unbounded as beyond." Not enough freedom for you, looking for another brick? Feel free to clone!