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DOBINI BALWAUM (Inline) — Didone-style 18th century modern serif
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Dobini Balwaum is a Didone, or modern, serif typefaces inspired by the works of Bodoni, Didot and Walbaum.
This font had been in the making for quite a long time as I ren into several design difficulties along the way. Most challenging parameter was the inline width. By default the width for the inline was set at 0.125 (or 1/8th) grid units.
Maintaining a constant width for the inline proved to be next to impossible. Therefor it evolves around a 'close' approximation of 0.125 units instead. Stroke weight for the letterform contours also proved to be somewhat of a constraining factor for the overall design concept. As it limits the ability to build complex geometry.
Due to the complexity in brick arrangements the font remains having some minor imperfections that I wasn't able to polish out so fat yet, and some may never will..
For now only Basic Latin letters, it remains a WIP
I hope you like it so far,
Cheers
24 Comments
I am not a fan of the uneven digits height, but still this font is great, I would not imagine this was possible with Fontstruct.
Okay,
Well, the reason I've chosen to make text figures the font's default style was because I tried to remain faithful to the 18th century time period. Most Didone-style typefaces such as 'Didot' and 'Walbaum' have non-lining figures as their default form. Oldstyle "non-lining" figures have lowercase alignment (featuring ascenders & descenders like regular lowercase letters) as opposed to this modern "lining" figures sit on the baseline and align with the uppercase letters.
I know that in more recent times the more popular became lining figures by default. That being said, professional fonts nowadays generally include both, but this only became possible since the arrival of modern digital typesetting systems.
These allowed encoding for both text and lining figures as OpenType alternate characters.
There is an additional set of alternative lining figures located in the "Halfwidth And Fullwidth Forms" Unicode block.
Cheers
Added some ligatures!
This is some amazing work as always, congrats on the TP!
@Dear Sed4: Double Congratulations, for the TP and for the font itself! I really liked this one, you already knew that, but now that I see it finished (or almost, with you there are always improvements) I like it much more! Fine, elegant, wearable... it has all the cards to be a winner! Without taking anything away from everything said above, I would also like to present for your consideration some small suggestions about the J, the y and the number 2 (and perhaps some other less intense ones that may come later). Great work, I say it once again, and with many possibilities IMHO.
@RobMeek: Thank you so much for the pink star of appreciaton boss, that 'll keep the engine running!
@elmoyenique: As you might have noticed earlier, the exact three glyphs that you just proposed did already had several slight modified forms included in the font. But even with all the variations present I still couldn't fully get satisfied and settle with one of the results for the designated glyphs.
So yours came as an absolute blessing, and is greatly appreciated my good old brother-in-bricks. I attempted to rebuild and incorporate your recommendations into the font.
Je vous remercie beaucoup!
@elmoyenique: These are my additions towards your proposal.
— ¡Muchas gracias!
You're welcome, compa. Pretty additions and a nice mini-poster describing the main characteristics of the font. Thanks, Sed4.
Such great work. Thinking outside the grid!
excellent work, some of the cleanest letters ever
the font for "cap height" "ascent" "x-height" "baseline" and "decent" in the picture was the font you created but nice font 100/10
this looks like didone but yeah
Really amazing work. Good job
I also want to ask that how can you make a composite block that only leaves empty space in a unit square?
@NWKS405 - You can remove bricks from a composite by erasing them. Detailed instructions are found here under the section titled Composite Bricks with padding:
FontStruct 2.0 Update
Many changes were made during the latest update. I composed an info-graphical image in which I neurotically wrote down this heavily "over-composed" but detailed in-depth description for the font... and beyond.
More graphical samples will be included next time..
Cheers
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