FontStruct | FontStruction Feed: Mirkwood 2nd Iteration

Comment from p2pnut

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

It may be 'limited' in quantity - but not in quality. This is a fantastic addition to the Mirkwood family.

Comment from gferreira_admin

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

Nice to see the relative densities of the letters resulting in different patterns of 'gray'. (Maybe the space glyph could contain a pattern too?) Conceptually fascinating – 'fractal type design'. Would have been a good font choice for the cover of this book. Can the FontStructor can handle a 3rd iteration? :-)

Comment from gferreira_admin

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

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Comment from Frodo7

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

@gferreira: Thank you for your comment and the TP. A good choice for the cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach? Well, that's quite a compliment. I love that book. I can only hope I am the first with this fractal type concept. There are some examples of letters-in-letter design, but not in fractal fashion. I thought about the space glyph too. Actually, there should be a black & white pair a space glyphs. What pattern could it be without compromising the period and other punctuation marks I can't tell right now. I still have some problems how to accommodate B&W pairs of glyphs within the same font. I think, I should learn more about Open Type. 3rd Iteration: A very good question. Back in August, when this idea came I've made a lot of calculations. It is easy to compute the size of a glyph in bricks: 1st Iteration: 7x7=49 2nd Iteration: 49x49=2401 3rd Iteration: 343x343=117649 117649 bricks for a single glyph would be gargantuan size. And here comes Mirkwood Nano, a sub-brick pixel font into the picture. Having just half the height and width, a quarter of the overall size of M. Regular/M. 1st Iteration it could reduce the size of the 3rd Iteration by 75% to a more comfortable 29412.25 bricks. In other words the height will be 171.5 instead of 343 bricks. I've run a test with a single character (it was only a checkered pattern) before starting to build the 1st and 2nd Iteration. It worked, but Fontstructor slowed down quite a bit. I don't want to build the whole set, but only 4 characters, as a proof of concept. I've already made them in Illustrator and Photoshop. But the real ones in FS won't be an easy cut-and paste affair. The small letters - corresponding to the 1st and 2nd Iter. - end with half a brick on two sides, so you can not use them simply as building blocks. There will be a lot of brick-by-brick handiwork.

Comment from typophilus50

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

love the lateral thinkin!

Comment from Mark Titan

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

This is a good font, however when I download it. It doesn't print out and has another font instead of this one. Mark Titan

Comment from Frodo7

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

@Mark Titan: I'm glad you like my work. I've just checked a minute ago: download and install worked fine. I might add, it was the same with iCollect.it, the barcode font, I've downloaded five minutes ago. For possible errors, first, you may not have to look beyond your own system.