A logotype for retro-tech hardware inspired by Roc Mitchell's Corporate phototype series (aka Limited/Limited View and Logos/LogoStyle) from the 1970's. Free for personal use only. Alternate characters list: @ - P * - J # - L < - A > - t ^ - e { - F } - R ~ - K © - g ® - D § - S ¤ - E ‹ - A › - A ¹ - A ¼ - 4 ½ - m ¾ - w ² - V ³ - V ª - a « - p » - q † - f
Clone of Denethor Sans v1.
This is a clone of Denethor Sans v1The next step from Starast Maxi.
What began nearly 8 years ago as an experiment in multi-stage, multi-resolution pixel serif type drafting (starting smallish then manually upscaling x4), took on the robust character you see here after countless edits and some tricky lessons learned along the way.
The initial weight was on the light side (cloned privately for posterity), so I took a leap into this bookish weight by fattening each glyph copy-pasted 1 pixel shifted both up and to the right. A rudimentary technique, by no means novel, yet almost wholly effective. I saw fit from here to only make a handful of corrections, keeping the slightly rounded and slanted serif shape that resulted as well as the subtle reenforcing of a pen-nib construction.
More intriguing is the 1-bit “anti-aliasing” scheme I found myself progressively guided toward while finding the lines of these curves developing the initial light weight. Implied diagonals and said curves – as well as refinement of contrast – are substantially more granular and specific than had I taken a black-and-white posterized, or stairstepped approach.
At half-resolution, the resulting smoothness is acceptible. This type of hinting will be useful in developing a substitution rule set consisting of subpixel slanted or curved bricks to produce a “vectorized” version.
Indeed, such a process could be purely automated by a proficient developer or properly trained neural network (this would be a really interesting future feature for fontstruct pro – rather than hinting a font after painstaking vector construction, why not reverse the process by way of en vogue ai-assisted upscaling?).
Basic accented charaters and numerals are being added as I churn through the extended character set...
050415. lowercase reworked with nudges and fin bricks. Uppercase added based on new modifications. 091415. updated M N W and g. g is my favorite. 100315. Basic symbols added. Quick text dump of quotes from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers book for a sample image shows different sizes. The font name had nothing to do with the book, which was an interesting read nonetheless.