DER ZiiLTED - Neo-Grotesk italic hairline sans
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[ DESCRIPTION ]
The design is a simplistic slanted geometric hairline letterform with stylistic tapered spurs. Some extra glyph alternates were included to spice up this otherwise boring font, making it a little bit less boring.
The "DER ZIILTED" name was inspired by a poorly English speaking German person that is saying "The Tilted" in English but with a bad German emphasis on the phonetic sound of it hence 'der ziilted'
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[ INSIDE THIS FONT ]
■ Basic latin character set with only essential punctuation marks
■ Stylistic alternates
• Double storey lowercase 'a' & 'g'
• Spurless lowercase forms (still in trial stage and likely will change)
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[ TECHNICAL ]
■ Metrics(in square grid units)
• em-square: 11 × 4.5
• cap-height: 8
• x-height: 6
• ascent: 2
• descent: 3
• optical compensation: ☒
• stroke weight: 0.25
Nearly no kernig was done yet, but will be done at a later stage, since I'm 99.9% sure about having screwed up protocol for glyph 'side-bearings' in Italic fonts. (Still figuring out how exactly this should be handled properly, so stick with me on this matter..)
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[ PROCESS ]
Let's start with mentioning that only recently I was still tested 'Very Green' for Italic genetic material (found 0.01%).
I have very little experience doing Italic designs in general, having done only a hand full of trials, and completed only a couple. This is actually only the third 'true' Italic font that I have ever made with Fontstruct, and the second one (I think) that got published. Don't ask me why it took me about 5 years to finally do another, but, let me tell you this; Looking back at it after doing this font — "I now know why". This was tough to say the least.
I can imagine designing Italic fonts in general comes with it's own set of challenges of course. Doing this in Fontstruct only adds numerous challenges on top of that — "what else is new, right?!" Nothing that wasn't expected for the most part. But "holy frog on a leopard", what do I absolutely positively very much regret the choice to do so in such a small stroke weight. This stripped away every possible tollerance and free space for finetuning and making finalizing adjustments to minute little details required to perfecting everything (curvatures, transitions, slants and optical compensation).
I did the best I could to get visual aesthetics at least acceptable, and somewhat complete enough character set for basic latin text. There remain some small imperfections present for now that still need to get addressed.
For example I started experimenting with trying to achieve acceptable optical compensations such as overshoot. For now I only temporarily applied this to the experimental 'spurless' glyph alternate set for trial testing purpose, looking for acceptable results. And only once I found all the necessary solutions for each requisite glyph I transfer these adjustments one by one to the main character set. But all options remain open for the time being, it might so happen that in a later stage I decide not to implement them after all.
The 'spurless' glyph alternates will remain included to the project, but in what final form for now remains uncertain.
So from a typographer's point of view the font surely will look very basic and perhaps even simplistic. But looking at it from a Fontstructor's perspective, this was a lot more than just the average walk in the park for me.
But to be honest, I doubt I will do another Italic Fontstruction any time soon,haha
I hope you like it so far.
Cheers
OBLONGUS - Modern light weight monolinear geometric sans
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■ Description:
Light weight monolinear geometric sans.
■ Design summary:
One of the most striking features is it's overall well ventilated, light weight and spacious appearence. Some other key features are the glyph's elongated ascenders and descenders. These give the font a somewhat condensed and stretched look. An additional side effect of this is the extra empty vertical space above and bellow a line of text. Contributing even some more to the already ventilated character of the design.
Another key feature are the stylish rounded forms and novel long spurs. I tried to find elegance in it's simplicity, the decorative elements, turns and twists were all done in a very gentle but clearly present manner. All working together these elements give the font a very welcoming, friendly and laid-back vibe. Extra's, such as glyph alternatives will help spicing things up even a bit more.
So, while trying to remain simplistic in nature the font does have some nice stylistic appeal for sure.
■ Tech specs: (measured in square grid units)
Glyphs dimensions: 16 × 8
Weight: 0.125 (1/8th)
Brick size filter: 2 ꞉ 2
■ Font features:
▪ Basic-Latin, punctuation & symbols
▪ Lining & non-lining (oldstyle) numerals
▪ Glyph alternatives
▪ Partial kerning
■ Update history:
▪ [06-24-2022]
Basic font created
▪ [06-24-2022]
Changed lowecase 'w' with a wider version
▪ [06-24-2022]
Made cursive style lowercase 's' & 'tailed z' glyphs as default style
▪ [06-24-2022]
Partial kerning applied
▪ [07-24-2022]
Added multiple sets of numerals styles
- Lining (default style)
- Non-Lining (Oldstyle)
- Double Struck
(Slight different, extra decorative, more leaning towards classic style)
▪ [07-24-2022]
Included random stylistic glyph alternates, special characters & ligatures
- Additional extra characters will follow next update
I hope you like it so far
NICE LEGS
This is a monolinear hairlined sans-serif typeface inspired by Art-Deco-ish classic modern and old ultra narrow typeface designs that evoked a feeling of sophistication and luxury..
This is a monolinear hairlined sans-serif typeface inspired by Art-Deco-ish classic modern and old ultra narrow typeface designs that evoked a feeling of sophistication and luxury..
A condensed slim & elegant style that has this classy look. The tall upper-case evokes elegance and it's asymmertical high- / low- waist distribution.
NICE LEGS was built using simple geometric shapes to make clean and legible letterforms. The super tall uppercase letters and the low x-height,
making this an eccentric, yet elegant san-serif type
— “Condensed, slim & stylish tall glyphs with that classy look that evoke elegance”.
It's asymmetric high- / low- waist positioning gives the lettering a distinct retro look & bohemian feeling that is great for logos & branding, packaging, titles, magazines, posters, signs, and scrapbooking.
As far as it is a clean looking font, it is not designed for large amounts of Body Copy text. It does work at small size, but it is perfect for branding , logos, and posters.
This font comes in both Capital & Lower letter cases. It's also equipped with many other charaters, such as; Ligatures, Numbers, Punctuation Marks, Accented Latin and a supply of special characters
It’s a minimalist sans-serif, delicate and romantic! The smooth and light execution of it’s clean and sharp lines making this font look sleek and elegant, feminine which is perfect for modern fashionable branding designs.
A condensed font with visual elegance, and smooth curves that make your work look true and attractive. Making this a perfect sans suitable to a wide variety of designs due to its neat and simple style.
More details soon
PS: I'm still working on kerning the font...
Cheers