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Bevelled + inline sans serif. Capitals only.
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This fontstruction was meant to enter the competition, but I won't be able to finish it. I started it late, and it took way more time to solve some problems than I expected. Still, it was fun to work on it and feel the Fontstruct vibe at the same time. I decided to make it public as it is, incomplete, because it belongs to this particular online event. Needless to say, I won't enter it in the ColorComp. Winning or losing doesn't matter much. To be alive, healthy, and happy means everything!
Yes...lets Win i love you fonts,all Together!
The "R" looks like a "P". Can you fix it please?
Beautiful.
It's a beauty. It deserves to be finished.
I dare to make a suggestion: to add a very soft color to avoid the white light areas on the letters and to make the shadow a little warmer... What do you think? (I beg your pardon, today is being to me a very unconventional day).
@elmoyenique: Thank you for your comment. I am open-minded to any improvement. The white colour on the top right is a feature: the glittering light, a strong reflection. It doesn't matter that the background and the inline are also white, and they occasionally merge. The illusion of the third dimension is created in our brain. The brain interprets the angles and shades of colour as 3D geometry, even if they are not perfect (photorealistic).
Warm shadows are created by warm light and/or warm-coloured objects.
This is only my first colour scheme. It took me almost a whole day to get the colours right. I might explore other variations in the future.
i think its late
Congratulations on completing the capitals and numerals—this looks gorgeous!
Just one suggestion: the angled strokes of the 'Y' might benefit from a steeper slant to better accommodate surrounding characters. As it stands, there's quite a bit of whitespace between the 'Y' and adjacent letters when used in words. While kerning can help minimise this, I think adjusting the glyph's contours would offer a more effective and lasting solution.
@7V80Y LCP (digitalio-2): It's never too late for a nice fontstruction.
@faux_icing: Thank you for your comment. A steeper angle for the Y would mess up the whole geometry. Kerning will help to distribute the white space more evenly. I don't do full kerning in Fontstruct, however.
@Frodo7 - I believe @digitalio-2 mistakenly thinks it's a belated sample for entry in the recent ColorComp contest... which you clearly stated IT IS NOT in your first comment above, along with you FontStruct lacking any of the requisite competition tags. :^\
@Goatmeal: Thank you for the clarification. Looking back on the last week, with the complexity of this font and the numerous iterations required for some letters, I can clearly state that I could not have possibly finished this work by the June 30th deadline. So, what to do then? I won't scrap a good design concept just because of being late. I'll finish this job and enjoy myself while doing so.
@goatmeal @frodo7 just realized this isnt a colorcomp entry
Wonderful!
Text sample without kerning.
The Cyrillic set is nearly complete. (Russian text sample from Wikipedia - LoTR)
I have updated the Д, Л, and У. Still no kerning.
This looks pretty nice so far…
Very nice update! Personally, I prefer these Д and Л designs better than the previous, more symmetrical ones.
@Bryndan W. Meyerholt (BWM) and elmoyenique: Thank you for your comments. I hope the Russian experts will agree with you.
There is still much work to be done on this project. First, I have to fix the diacritics. The breve (краткое) is not acceptable. It looks more like the macron. A few essential punctuation marks are missing (quotation marks, parentheses, brackets, em dash). Perhaps I will fine-tune the colour scheme and do some basic kerning as well.
The Cyrillic set will support the following languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Rusyn, Moldovan, Serbian, Macedonian, and Montenegrin. On the Latin side, it's more complicated. I'm not sure I can cover all European languages.
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Most people on FS totally misunderstand what font design is about. Creating a new font is not a short dash; it's like a marathon. Historically, it took months, even years, to complete a typeface: careful planning, meticulous work, small adjustments, numerous revisions, and thorough testing. It is similar to working on a model sailing ship. It won't give you a quick dopamine rush.
Major updates:
The Latin and Cyrillic M have been redesigned.
Diacritical marks are almost complete; only the ogonek (˛) is missing. I slightly increased the size of the dots for the umlaut. The double acute turned out nice. The breve has been corrected.
The punctuation marks are a little chunky, but all essential bits are done — no curly brackets as of yet. And there are no greater than and lesser than signs.
Special characters: The ampersand has been modified, and now it looks OK. A sad omission is the asterisk. I couldn't manage to make it acceptable. It is a complicated little beast. I don't plan to add other currency symbols to the dollar. Not this time.
Language support: The Latin set now supports English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Icelandic, Irish, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Estonian, Albanian, and Afrikaans. The missing glyph for Nordic languages is the Ø. Again, it is a complicated glyph. I'm working on it.
For the Cyrillic set, I achieved the goals set with my previous comment. All European languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are fully supported. There is no plan to support Central Asian languages (e.g., Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek).
Diacritical marks by themselves are located in the Spacing Modifier Letters and Combining Diacritical Marks blocks
Congrats on the well-deserved TP, Maestro!
@Rob Meek: Thank you very much for the special mention. It means a lot.
@Bryndan W. Meyerholt (BWM): I'm sorry, but I'm not clear on your comment. Could you explain it?
@elmoyenique: Thank you for your comments and for being so helpful.
The Combining Diacritical Marks block, well, contains numerous diacritical marks used in many languages around the world. The Spacing Modifier Letters block contains spacing versions of diacritics used in European languages (These exist because of legacy character sets). A lot of fonts have these so the designer can easily add diacritics to letters without having to build said diacritics over and over.
If you have Unicode Sets enabled, you should be able to find them near the top of the block list just below IPA Extenstions.
The character set. Not too shabby. I think it's time to fine-tune the colours.
I think the font is great! I can tell it took a long time to visualize and map out! Beautiful...
the best
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