Well, that's it. I'm stuck at D. I have tried several tricks, various incantations to no avail. Since I've invested a great deal of time and effort in this project, and it looked promising, I decided to release it anyway, as it is ere I go to another errand. This concludes my fonting endeavours for a while.

P.S. The picture is taken at an early version to show you how the main motif blends with the background. The checkered background, that gives the shiny grey metal finish in PXL view, is made of a single brick tiled all over. I suspect that's the main culprit for this failure. All the troubles started after I painted them on large surfaces.

P.P.S.: I wanted to name this font after Vasarely, or after one of his famous work, Noir et Blanc, but these names are already used for fonts. Gestalt refers to the visual effect, as the meaning emerges from the pattern.

Well, just a few words now before I have to find my pillow.

@funk_king: It is not as huge as it looks. The Escher font was probably bigger. As I mentioned, I have repeated the same brick for the background, and that move alone reduced the size by a factor of 4. The problem is with the way FS generates a font, as Master Rob Meek pointed out today (see FS Live). It turned out, the problem is not merely about the number of bricks, but rather the shapes they create. FS doesn't like to compute too many separate contours, black shapes which don't touch each other. And the checkered pattern is just about that. I can only hope he doesn't bear any grudge against me. For I nearly crippled FS with a ton of bricks. Or at least it looked from my laptop: it took 2-3 minutes to move on to the next character. And I dutifully saved after every major steps. It would be comforting to know that FS is impervious to such afflictions, even though they were, doubtless, undesigned. Since Gestalt is now inaccessible, I can't continue to work on it. Cloning is no help this time. I have to go back to an early copy, or start it from scratch. I think, I will do neither. But I had a long thought about the matter, and figured out how to avoid these perils in the future.

Wow! How did you do this sample? Was it also ready in your drawer? It must be a Photoshop action, Eye Candy, or else. As a matter of fact, I had a design very similar to that, with the central big pattern fused together to form the strokes. But that was a dead end too, because one can not make the pattern seamless using a 5x5 pixel font template and 2x2 large squares on each. the latter must be odd number, 1,3,5,... But thanks for the encouragement. It came at the right moment. I went out with a long face. I promise, I will continue to work on, if time permits.

You see, I could not merge the horizontal and vertical strokes. I have to rebuild it from the ground up.

It seems to me that FS community is full of outlandish folk, whose minds work in magic synchronicity.

@Mark Titan: This project is unfinished (hence the fragment label), and inaccessible for further editing, because its size is too large for Fontstruct to handle. As a consequence it also means that download may not work. However, I don't rule out the possibility to restart this project some time in the future. Thank you for taking interest in my work.

With the advent of the new Fontmortar, the extended memory, or FS 2.0, this fontstruction became available for editing again. Previously it refused to open, because it was too big. Thus, almost a year after its original release I revisited this work, removed the checkered (gray) background, which caused the problem, and by and large completed the set. The label "fragment" has been removed from the title. I continue to improve and extend the set if time permits.