This font was created around the theme of decay. I took inspiration from shapes and forms within the pieces of a badger's spine and manipulated them to construct the alphabet. Here is my blog :) > http://hollydennis.tumblr.com/ website> www.hollydennisdesign.com
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...
My final entry in the competition. Inspired by Mazey, zlabyrinths eYe/FS, and wavelength. Each glyph has its own maze, and each maze connects with the next. Tilde ~ and low line _ connect words, grave ` closes beginnings and ends, and the left and right arrows < > are for the start and end. There are also some alternates in Extended Latin A. Suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks!
UPDATES:
04/06/14 The whole font has been updated to be one brick taller, and thus properly fit onto a grid. Also, some characters have been redesigned. V2.0
05/13/14 All punctuation has been modified to continue a word maze. V2.1
07/05/14 1000 downloads! Hooray! As a 'thank you', I've completed more of More Latin. V2.2
08/22/14 I've made the accents part of the maze. I've also changed a few characters, and added Œ and œ. V2.3
08/04/15 Added Polish support with Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ś, Ź, and Ż. Tweaked a few characters as well, and added a crossbar to the ð. V2.4
06/18/16 Added support for multiple languages with more Cyrillic chars and punctuation. Also tweaked a few chars.
If you want to know, A,B,P,S.... are (head)3:1(body).
MOST OF letters are 12x6 except I,T,Y,f,i,l,m,t,y
I've made the numbers thinner. i d even k y. but they look better like this
What about Long leg font? do you guys want a "Long Leg"?
[slashes](Problem solved)
are \ / % ø recognizable? thanks to Se7enty-Se7en and Cookielord, \/%Ø is now better.
THANK YOU \(◦'⌣'◦)/❤❤❤
[ogonek and stroke] (Problem solved)
ogoneks and strokes are annoying me. btw if you're speaking languages with letters that has ogonek or stroke sticked on. try to write a word with ogonek or stroke and remove the ogonek or stroke. and then recognize them
if you CAN. then why do you even put it on?? ¯\_(૦ઁᗝ૦ઁ)_/¯
coment below plz i need to know. :)
[asterisk]
if you don't like it, clone it you lazybone!
[Tags]
I don't speak english well, so plz tell me what is the tag this font should have. :)
The forum for all suggestions and ideas for the future of FontStruct.
This is a clone of fm FontStruct SuggestionsKulibin or Kulidyaka? Kulich?
See more: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/foundry/alexey-kryukov
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/152204/unispace
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/942604/lexiconius
Eda (by Alexander Tarbeev)
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/shinn/bodoni-egyptian-pro/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/shinn/scotch-modern/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/artlebedev/mirta/
Kostro, 21 Cent (https://yurigordon.com/ru/shop/fonts)
Kazimir, Parmigano, Brioni, Karloff (https://type.today/en)
Marian family(19c), Caponi (https://commercialtype.com/)
https://www.paratype.ru/pstore/default.asp?fcode=PT_FIL&letter=F
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/caslon-no-224/
https://www.paratype.ru/pstore/yfonts/ITC-Bodoni-72.htm
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/wiescherdesign/bodoni-classic-cyrillic/text-light/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/redrooster/poor-richard-rr/monoline/glyphs.html
https://www.colophon-foundry.org/typefaces/peggs/
Supported:
Basic Latin
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin Extended-A
Cyrillic
Latin Extended-B
IPA Extensions
Spacing Modifier Letters
Combining Diacritical Marks
Cyrillic Supplement
Armenian
--------------------------------------
RATE!
We used to have sheep and I wanted a sheepy font for a project. The sheep have quite clear letters in smaller size but the sheepy shape is less obvious. This is my first font and I will improve it to get a better shape/outline (thankyou to Fontstruct).