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I filled it, kix. :)
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It appears as a clone because that's where it started but every character is built from scratch. kix' brilliant original is an understatement of perfection, using the least amount of bricks for such a grand effect. However, it left not much space inside for any kind of meaningful rendering. Had to quadruple each glyph in order to get enough brick space inside to get some effect going. In the process I came to appreciate the true brilliance of the design and the awesomeness of certain characters. G, for instance.
I have scaled everything up, but have not taken any liberties with the shapes—they are true to the original. If a certain glyph is off, it is due to my ineffective eye and not borne out of a desire to change the original. (Point it out, and I'll correct it). Hope you like it.
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I live in the third-world; it is summer (well, it is here). Consequently, unannounced power outages 2, 5, 8 times a day are standard operating procedure. While/when we have power, my ISP may not. Consequently, unannounced internet outages 3, 4, 7 times a day are standard operating procedure. Out of 24 hours, I get 3, 4 hours of internet access on a good day. Everything everywhere is UPS'd up the wazoo. Still, UPSes need power to recharge. I never know when the computer might shut down or lose the internet connection. Consequently, I have become a master S-pusher. Sorry for the server load, admins. :-)
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It appears as a clone because that's where it started but every character is built from scratch. kix' brilliant original is an understatement of perfection, using the least amount of bricks for such a grand effect. However, it left not much space inside for any kind of meaningful rendering. Had to quadruple each glyph in order to get enough brick space inside to get some effect going. In the process I came to appreciate the true brilliance of the design and the awesomeness of certain characters. G, for instance.
I have scaled everything up, but have not taken any liberties with the shapes—they are true to the original. If a certain glyph is off, it is due to my ineffective eye and not borne out of a desire to change the original. (Point it out, and I'll correct it). Hope you like it.
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I live in the third-world; it is summer (well, it is here). Consequently, unannounced power outages 2, 5, 8 times a day are standard operating procedure. While/when we have power, my ISP may not. Consequently, unannounced internet outages 3, 4, 7 times a day are standard operating procedure. Out of 24 hours, I get 3, 4 hours of internet access on a good day. Everything everywhere is UPS'd up the wazoo. Still, UPSes need power to recharge. I never know when the computer might shut down or lose the internet connection. Consequently, I have become a master S-pusher. Sorry for the server load, admins. :-)
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sorry to hear about your technical difficulties. in the best of circumstances creativity is a delicate act, but when challenged, results can be...amazing :) i think among all fonstructers, you definitely foster a since of community and strong support and encouragement of other designers. when you post all is well, when you don't i wonder what's up. now i understand by you sharing your plight.
now i can see when fs was experiencing a "few" migration bugs that this only added to your...um, frustration :) but i know that these things only fuel the fire, especially when one is determined to see the end result. thanks again for sharing and great job here. continue :)
This font was a challenge to do, for sure. First it was a matter of figuring out what to paint the insides with. For some reason I wanted it to be an argyle or a tartan pattern but they just didn't look...er...smooth. Then I tried other patterns, none looking nice, until I relented to a chrome-like effect. Once that got decided, it turned out that almost every shape used the shallow angled bricks, the smaller of which left plenty of space per brick that the dot of the pattern it overlay would still be visible. Brick stacks.
I love that brick stacking is possible but it is a chore to use. So many mouse moves and clicks just to get one stack. Then because of the undulating wave pattern, determining which dot to stack at any given point was a test of my patience. Towards the end, I figured out a way to make the stacks easier by copying multiple patterns and multiple letter shapes on the same stage and stacking a whole line of bricks in one go. Frustrating, yet somehow it spurned me on.
As if that was not enough, this FontStruction kept doing something weird. At random, the bricks would swap themselves, leaving, as you can imagine, a mess of the design. I asked Rob Meek to rescue it once but when it happened again (at lower case x), I just gave up. Nearly gave up. I sat about carefully reassigning each brick to another completely different shape brick and then swapping the original brick back in. Testing the patience, oh yes. Before the font was complete, I had to do the brick swap thing four times. You have no idea how glad I was to get this font done. :)
On top of it, someone, very considerately, dropped a 1 rating on this almost right away. Brought me down from my lofty thoughts. But your comment makes up for that and many other 1 ratings. Thanks.
I know what you mean about the down-voters. I have a "fan" that instantly gives me a 1 on almost every single font I release. I'm assuming it's the same person...maybe I'm just insecure, and I have a whole bunch of haters. :)
Regardless of the votes, this font is a great work and your patience paid off.
ugh, now get me started about these font trolls for which i decided a font, of which i'm surprised of it's popularity. i don't know if i'm getting the last laugh or them :) i would agree with both of you - i would assess that it's the same people who demonstrate that behavior. which is too bad, i readily accept suggestions and criticisms, but these trolls just seem to delight in demeaning others work. sad. they don't realize their negative energy will only continue to deplete whatever remaining minuscule amount of creativity they have left. i think fs would be well served by someday introducing a more advanced voting widget - one that would allow voting on individual components of a design such as originality, execution/technique, usability, etc. until then, i try not to get emotionally charged when i get down-voted, but i suppose you can't help but react when something you've put your heart into gets mistreated.
i'm sure the admins could run some queries to identify fs users who down-vote on a consistent basis, but i'm not sure what good it would do. they could always register and vote under a new name. i really think if more downloaders in general would just vote that in itself would offset a lot of the bs. i don't know what the average is but maybe 1 in 4 vote who dl and that's probably a high %.
but let us not fret. in the end, it is we who create the work that drives both the good and bad of fs - its great when you get a dl and a good vote. you never know what someone is doing with your stuff, but that's the fun and mystery of it (although i wish more people would post the use of fonts the dl). maybe we need a forum and gallery here, although i guess that's what we have, we just need to utilize it as such. so let's continue to celebrate the joy of fs and pray for those lost trolls whose only joy comes not from creating and celebrating, but from trying to destroy and despising others work.
I don't do it here, but I am highly critical in life away from fontstruct, for one reason only: While criticism is difficult to accept at the onset, only constructive criticism has the potential to lead to something better. Praise is temporary; criticism can have lasting benefits. I don't expect everyone to like everything I do, so I invite people to give me their 1 votes, so long as they can substantiate them.
makes me even feel more honoured, if such a wise person likes my work.
Very good idea to blow it up.
And indeed super nice fill-ins :)
I should have constructed "mostly" that big, right from the start. i had issues with the letterspace controls, because of some half bricks i used...
Thank you for that
*blush
I discovered the art of batch brick-stacking whilst working on my 'Alphabox Shadow' - and have also managed to get 3 bricks in one stack, which occasionally comes in useful.
Hope my 10 helps to undo the spoiling tactics of whoever gave you a 1.
Also, sorry for posting so much stuff lately. I'm just on a semester break and this is the only time I have to play. I'll be much quieter soon.
BTW, did you use a gradient map to color the seamless sample? No, the upper and lower “waves” use the same grayscale values. You must’ve done some fancy masking to achieve these classic “chrome” reflections. There’s love in that, and for a highly lovable fs!
No remorse; only joy. :-)
I still can't get over how epic this font is. Kudos to Kix, of course, for making the letters, and major kudos to you for doing such amazing things to the letters. If I could fave this again, I would.
(also, points for Hitchhiker's reference!)
-Mairi
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