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The last and most difficult of the sharp serif experiments. Created on an 8 wide by 5 high base grid space. Unconventionally fontstructed while adhering to the impositions of the law of the brick. What do I mean? Just try recreating the letter A. It shouldn't be possible, so I did it anyway.
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89 characters, 24 downloads
Created:
Fri, 17th July, 3:08 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Tue, 28th July, 5:17 PM 2009
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http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/204251
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8x5, Flared Serif, Small, Sharp, Curvage, Extreme, Law Breaking, Unorthodox, Possible
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geneus1
geneus1 Tue, 28th July, 2009

chr.s
chr.s Tue, 28th July, 2009

Very sneaky - it took me a while, but I got there.

Excellent creative use of bricks there... I had a font in mind a while ago that could've done with that trick. Bravo!

chr.s
chr.s Tue, 28th July, 2009

Very sneaky - it took me a while, but I got there.

Excellent creative use of bricks there... I had a font in mind a while ago that could've done with that trick. Bravo!

chr.s
chr.s Tue, 28th July, 2009

I think this submission has put Fontstruct in a daze - I'm sure I only posted that comment once, and with a picture too.

Oh well... it's an A* from me.

intaglio
intaglio Wed, 29th July, 2009

Oooh! What a glutton for punishment! I'm smitten, where do I sign up? Second thoughts: 8x5... no thanks.

geneus1
geneus1 Thu, 30th July, 2009

@chr.s: Thanks. I'm surprised you discovered it so quickly. It took me four iterations of these experiments to discover the technique was possible.

@intaglio: No pain, no gain! ;-) I don't think you'd have any problem with it.

djnippa
djnippa Wed, 31st March, 2010

This is very cool.

aphoria
aphoria Thu, 1st April, 2010

I've come close to copying the A, but I don't think mine is quite right.

Please, Mr. Magician, show us your magic trick. :)

shasta
shasta Thu, 1st April, 2010

I admit I had to download it to be sure my eye didn't trick me on that tiny kink... ;)

I admit I had to download it to be sure my eye didn't trick me on that tiny kink... ;)
geneus1
geneus1 Fri, 2nd April, 2010

@djnippa: Thanks DJ! Its funny looking back at this one to see the amount of details packed into the same grid space used to create a pixel font.

@shasta: Hehe. Nice.

@aphoria: I think its more beneficial when the discovery is made on your own, but here's the cat out of the bag...

-William has the same technique employed with iSlab on the V.

@djnippa: Thanks DJ! Its funny looking back at this one to see the amount of details packed into the same grid space used to create a pixel font. <br/> <br/>@shasta: Hehe. Nice. <br/> <br/>@aphoria: I think its more beneficial when the discovery is made on your own, but here's the cat out of the bag... <br/> <br/>-William has the same technique employed with <a href="http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/islab_3">iSlab</a> on the V.
aphoria
aphoria Fri, 2nd April, 2010

Mine did match after all. I guess I was just going cross-eyed trying to compare mine to yours in the previewer.