FontStruct | FontStruction Feed: Punched Out

Comment from chr.s

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

And I'm sure everybody got told at least once to finally shut down that damn computer while fontstructing. So, SO true - the one downside to this app is its unrelentingly addictive nature. That said, I absolutely love this font - can't think of any time when I'd use it in a design, but for a rainy day's activities this is tops.

Comment from Em42

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Shasta, now I'd love to see the real thing! :)

Comment from chr.s

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Ditto ^that^ !

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

working on it... the S is almost done, just a bit fiddly to glue that stuff together - but it seems to work! @chr.s: yep, definitely not my most useful fontstruction... but it could look cool for example in the background of a flyer. of course the context would have to fit... and right, who does flyers for crafting groups every day. ;)

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I really love this font. Not many applications for it, but nevertheless a creative lesson. I think you should mention Funk_King for the initial spark.

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

wow, dude. this is very cool to me. i love it. the concept and execution. amazing. i think when i did cutouti have something like this in mind. you've created a whole new category :) rock on.

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i know this is a work in progress, but have you considered doing different versions - like black, outline... i think by enhancing the main outline of each glyph or filling it in, would definitely increase readability for those who would use just as type and not as cutouts :)

Comment from cayo

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I second Em42 on the cut&glued real life sample! the next time i'm told to turn this thing off while fontstructing, i might make a set myself. very good idea!

Comment from oyrus

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It worth a pick.

Comment from geneus1

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Awesome in three real-world dimensions!

Comment from meek

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Amazing.

Comment from Em42

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I hope for your sanity you are not really trying to build up the real thing: it would be for sure harder than building the font itself! :) (I know because I tried to build the "E"...)

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for your comments, everyone! They're very appreciated after the hard fontstructing... :) I have now added the numerals, if anybody has any wishes for other specific characters, let me know! @funk_king: Yep, I've thought about a filled version too for simple type-use. But before cloning i wanted to have the complete character set... Now I'm actually thinking about doing fill letters on the lowercase, so you'd have all in one font. What do you think about that? Outline sounds interesting too... @Em42 and cayo: The cut-and-glued real life sample is actually done already! Looks pretty cool, and the satisfaction of seeing that everything goes exactly where it's supposed to, is so huge that I'm seriously considering becoming a punch-out-sheet designer... (Kidding!) Anyway, I can now confirm that A, H, S and T work perfectly. Here's a picture from the making-of:

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Shasta, you brought FontStruct to another dimension – literally!

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

congrats, dude. i like the idea of using lc for filled version. you are a font designer/punch-out designer. and your sample brought a tear to my eye :) incredible. i'm sure it was relief and elation when they came together so beautifully. i'm stunned by the whole project and so very glad you did it.

Comment from SquarePeg

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, shasta, it's really cool to see that photo!

Comment from chr.s

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

That photo made my day. Excellent stuff.

Comment from afrojet

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow. So fun to see this go from inspiration to physical realization in just over a week. Both product and process are amazing.

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow brilliant work in the photo. A big smile on my face :-) Superb job.

Comment from cayo

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

that's a sexy pic: a laptop, scissors, uhu... and some crazy @$$ punched out type! (nice light & shadows, btw.) please excuse my language, but I'm havin way too much fun & I should get back to work, but... I'll start with the period, it's the easiest one.

Comment from Em42

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is the E I built: sides fit perfectly but I'm sorry I did an awfully dirty gluing job... Unfortunately there is no rating over 10, because this would deserve it!

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

thanks everyone! overwhelmed by the positive feedback... @afrojet: It was actually roughly 48 hours from initial idea to the final glueing, I just uploaded the picture a bit later. Not so good for the exams I should have been studying for, but funnily I always go extreme on fontstruct when I should really really do something else. (Not to say something more important, haha...) @Em: Wow, awesome! I so wouldn't have thought that anyone actually ever tries them out... :) And yep, the gluing can definitely get messy. In what size did you print it? I guess anything above two characters per A4 sheet gets too small to get them together nicely. Anyway, cool that I can tick off the E too now, thanks a lot! Are we going to see M, 4 and 2 too or did you already go nuts after one letter? ;)

Comment from Em42

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I printed just one letter on an A4 at 800pt size. The original plan was to spell out my nick, and if I have some free time during the weekend I will (but with such an hot Summer in Rome it is very unlikely I will stay home). I also thought of cheating by using the E for the M as well (with some Photoshop trick), but then I realized they have different side parts and flaps, so it would have not been fair! :)

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think cheating is legitimate here... I myself had a hard time fighting down the temptation to just write "take the E and rotate it!" on M and W... I just did them in case anyone really wants to use this as a type. And I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable with the thought of you hyperventilating in your study in sweltering heat full of glue vapours while your friends hang on the beach of ostia... So better cheat and save time! ;)

Comment from afrojet

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@shasta: I think you made the right choice. In the future you won't recall the content of the exam or the marks you received, but you'll remember making this beauty.

Comment from lillybaby123

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is marvelous! I love this one

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yeeha, just got hit by the font troll... Down from 9.9 to 8.9 with one additionnal vote. Thanks a lot! :P They should really think about implementing a few lines of code that erase statistically too obviously diverging votes...

Comment from cayo

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I did not vote before so I just raised you up a bit. Maybe Rob & Co. could implement a like system in which you either like it or don't. if you do, it adds one "like". I think that could kill the font troll.

Comment from p2pnut

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! An amazing concept that works out in the real world. It certainly gets a 10 from me. Nigel Tufnel's amp in Spinal Tap goes up to 11 ... shame we can't do the same.

Comment from hellotheresa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Truly awesome. A tangible FontStruction! Amazing work!

Comment from jmarquez

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s like seeing a digital fontstruction that took the “Red Pill” and came through to the real world!

Comment from janking

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Fold-tastic

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I've just released the fill font, so you can print your own special design on the letters to make your once so boring sunday afternoons really exciting. ;) Here's how it works:

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Punched Out” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

Comment from gray.scale

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

GREAT IDEAT! 10/10

Comment from domald

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

this is brilliant!

Comment from zen_killa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

really really nice idea and achivement !

Comment from eviltoast

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

(Reposted from a private note) Hay there~ Just made this, thought you'd like to see! Turned out well I think. Nicely designed font, and construction was pretty straight forward. Anyway - this was pretty fun and I wanted to say thanks - so thanks! (Party was great and yes, MANY hours ;D )

Comment from eviltoast

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think it's worth having a look at the high res pic (I'm rather proud of how this turned out): http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3125/1000910c.jpg

Comment from linehand

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

That's crazy shasta. Amazing. eviltoat, you madman!

Comment from linehand

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

oops, I misspelled your name eviltoast and there is no way to fix it. Great pic though.

Comment from cayo

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Shasta: Punch Out tiene algo más de fama. Hasta SwissMiss le ha dedicado un post. Felicitaciones! Y pensar que te la habías guardado un buen tiempo antes de publicarla.

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@eviltoast: Thanks a lot for posting your picture! I'm still completely blown away by your work and your patience...;) @cayo: Increíble... Desde que le puse en dafont.com parece hacer el tour del internet. Ya vi varios blogs y twitters, y en un poco mas que 2 semanas fue bajado 15'000 veces. Crazy! Gracias por el link! :)

Comment from jonathann13

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For the E, it is missing a plane under one of it's bars

Comment from jonathann13

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For the E, it is missing a plane under one of it's bars

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yep, I'm aware of that problem... Actually on almost every character there are sides that are left open. This isn't a bug however, as I've pointed out in the description; it's just impossible to fill all the sides while still having a one-piece layout. And as I didn't want to have letters that would have to be put together from two or three seperate pieces, I just decided to leave the sides open where it would be least visible. In case of the "E"s I left the under sides of the top and the middle bar open... Thanks for pointing it out though!

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Punched Out” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

Comment from margaretnicholdesign

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Awesome! I work in packaging with dielines and the like all the time so I'm intrigued by this! Very Cool and there seem to be so many applications for this. :)

Comment from xena

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

good job

Comment from dfitz823

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i am having some trouble making the font larger. it downloads in a .ttf and i do not know how to make it larger, because i cannot click on anything in the screen? what program should be used to open it?

Comment from meggiecat

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Punched Out just cracked the 50'000 downloads line on dafont.com this weekend...:) Pretty impressive how popular fontstructions can become when exposed to a larger audience.

Comment from p2pnut

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations. But, let's face it, this is a pretty good example of the FS craft and deserves such success. :)

Comment from wood9169

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

can someone give me instructions on how to print the letters? I'm just trying to print three single letters each the size of one page.

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If you don't know how to install it, here are instructions. Then you just open a word document, set the page margin to 1 cm on every side, and type the letters you want at a size of ~900. That should give you about the right size... Have fun!

Comment from parda

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Love that font. First, I did a white version, and

Comment from parda

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

then, a nicer (in my eyes) version, for a special occasion :)

Comment from parda

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

then, a nicer (in my eyes) version, for a special occasion :)

Comment from wasoom

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

hi parda , how can you add this texture to the letters ? Thank you

Comment from wasoom

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

hi parda , how can you add this texture to the letters ? Thank you

Comment from wasoom

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

hi parda , how can you add this texture to the letters ? Thank you

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You can either download the fill font and overlay the punch out layout with the fill shape, or then you just print the layouts on a sheet with a texture printed on it already... :) And @parda: Sorry, almost forgot to answer to your post, but: Amazing pictures, thanks a lot for sharing them! The "love" letters really look cute... Just as a hint: You can also fold them reversed, so the cutout- and folding-lines end up on the inside of the letters! Might look even better... (Of course you would have to print the texture on the backside of the paper then.)

Comment from JaimeCEY

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

BUENA FUENTE GRACIAS

Comment from evgenianika

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Большое спасибо!!! Thank you very much! We'll do the letters with his son, it's very exciting for a boy! You - genius!

Comment from damsel13

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I have just found this font and I love it! I figured I'd make some Christmas decorations out of it instead of buying some wooden ones I'd seen. I glued Christmas wrapping paper to normal printer paper and here is the final product. Wrapping paper would not have been strong enough on it's own. Thanks for all your hard work!

Comment from ExtremeFontMaker

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, this is really cool! I dont know how to use these fonts in MSWord or other Microsoft zoffice Applications, I wish I could use this font!

Comment from MAW

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Anyone made the X and care to share? Mine doesn't look anything LIKe an X and I just can't seem to figure out where I am going wrong. I'd take a photo to post but my camera battery is dead. Dare I say thanks in advance? MA

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I agree the X is a rather disfigured fellow. It's quite tricky to make a pretty one on a 5x5 layout though, as most obvious solutions would either not connect or look like swasticas, which would clearly not be in line with my target group. Here's a little illustration of the problem. The first is unfortunately not possible, the second is the one that I have in the design now (definitely an ugly thing, looks more like space-invaders-mas than x-mas, but quite convenient for the punch out design), and then two possible alternatives that I could probably do... Looking at it now, I think solution 4 is probably the best one. What does the majority say? (But I will unfortunately not be able to design this as a punch out layout before saturday... would that still be early enough for your christmas decoration?)

Comment from MAW

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

LOL! No worries at all, enjoy your holidays - I'm just happy to get confirmation that what I was cutting and folding, which looks exactly like 2 here, is as it was designed. I agree, an ugly fellow indeed. I also agree 4 is the best, most X like choice. I may opt for a Happy New Year (no X :)) instead. Cheers! Mary Anne

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Changed the X to the forth version in my comment above. Looks more like an X now, but is also a bit more complicated to glue together. Anybody who dares taking the challenge: Let me know if it works out!

Comment from corinasma

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

love it... 3D ...bring on the glue