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Chocobot Dark Solid

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by SquarePeg
cloned from Chocobot Dark by LexKominek, and Chocobot Stacked by LexKominek


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Description:
Dear Human, try this solid version of our Chocobot Dark product. Caution: may make you feel full. Inspected by Chocobot CBV-36.
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79 characters, 100 downloads
Created:
Sat, 18th July, 3:33 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Tue, 20th April, 9:48 PM 2010
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Discussion

SquarePeg
SquarePeg Sun, 19th July, 2009


gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Wed, 22nd July, 2009

Great additions to the ChocoBot family.

Your solid versions reveal a slight stress in the letter shapes (top-right and bottom-left corners have more 'mass') – something I had not noticed in the original design.


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Wed, 22nd July, 2009

Thanks, Gustavo. When you say stress, do you mean the slightly thicker lines that give the illusion of volume in the original FontStructions? I couldn't see the stress in my own sample, but it's definitely visible in the Fontstruct-generated sample. I suppose it's a result of adding the shadow/volume of the original drawings to the body of each character... I actually considered making a highlight version in which white lines would be drawn along the edges that are prolonged with a shadow. It would look something like this:

Thanks, Gustavo. <strike>When you say stress, do you mean the slightly thicker lines that give the illusion of volume in the original FontStructions?</strike> I couldn't see the stress in my own sample, but it's definitely visible in the Fontstruct-generated sample. I suppose it's a result of adding the shadow/volume of the original drawings to the body of each character... I actually considered making a highlight version in which white lines would be drawn along the edges that are prolonged with a shadow. It would look something like this:
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gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Mon, 27th July, 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Chocobot Dark Solid” is now a Top Pick.


funk_king
funk_king Mon, 27th July, 2009

congrats on the top picks dude. that's like a triple header :) thanks for sharing this sweet tasty suite :)


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Mon, 27th July, 2009

Thanks, funk_king. Truthfully, all I did was take Lex's FontStructions and fill in the insides of the existing shapes! :-)


LexKominek
LexKominek Tue, 28th July, 2009

The "stress" comes from my optical correction for the shadows in the original stacked font. Basically I started with five different "tiles" - one with a square on the top layer, and four with triangles in the top layer (for each corner angle). I then built the lower two layers around that. So the distortion on the dark layer is more pronounced, since it is a shadow surrounding a shadow, surrounding a shadow. I hope this makes sense :-)


LexKominek
LexKominek Tue, 28th July, 2009

Ricardo - I like your highlight version. Are you going to take a stab at it, or should I? :-)


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Tue, 28th July, 2009

I was hoping you'd ask, Lex! I am honored, and would love to give it a try. :-)

I don't want to give the highlight versions mile-long names, though... How does "Chocobot Dark Highlight" sound to you?


LexKominek
LexKominek Tue, 28th July, 2009

That's probably what I would have called it anyway :-)


SquarePeg
SquarePeg Tue, 28th July, 2009

Okay then! Sounds like a plan. Stay tuned...