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More Latin Trajedy Titling Capitals

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by will.i.ૐ
cloned from Trajedy by LexKominek


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Description:
More pxl love. And another expansion of Lex Kominek’s Trajedy majuscules.

The freshness of the original charmed me into creating an extended set of matching miniscules, diacritics, symbols and ligatures. But why stop there? :^)
Stats:
570 characters, 16 downloads
Created:
Sat, 17th October, 5:25 PM 2009
Last Edit:
Sat, 28th November, 7:39 AM 2009
Permalink:
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/243594
Tags:
Classic, Roman, Serif, Trajan, Pixel, Old Style, Titling, Small Caps, Swash, Aum, Extended, Williaum
Categories:
Pixel Optimized, Serif
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Discussion

will.i.ૐ
will.i.ૐ Sat, 24th October, 2009

Afrojet called for a proper small caps version after peeping my q, and knowing the mega-popular inspiration for all this, I just knew he was right. But would this grid really allow it? My inner type-pixeling neophyte couldn’t say!

So I dove in, trying my hand at what’s become the first of not one but two small caps variants. This first one, of course, is geared for titles and headlines. Certain capitals have been tweaked (Q, S, U), the numerals now match the small cap height, and all pertinent symbols have followed suit. Look close for the ornamental &, ¶, and †.

Even more akin to Trajan (_gulp_) but replete with a panoply of ligatures, I only threw the towel in after appending an anachronistic set of swash capitals.

More. Latin. Trajedy. :^)

Afrojet called for a proper small caps version after peeping my <i>q,</i> and knowing the mega-popular inspiration for all this, I just knew he was right. But would this grid really allow it? My inner type-pixeling neophyte couldn’t say! <br/> <br/>So I dove in, trying my hand at what’s become the first of not one but two small caps variants. This first one, of course, is geared for titles and headlines. Certain capitals have been tweaked (<i>Q, S, U</i>), the numerals now match the small cap height, and all pertinent symbols have followed suit. Look close for the ornamental &, ¶, and †. <br/> <br/>Even more akin to Trajan (_gulp_) but replete with a panoply of ligatures, I only threw the towel in after appending an anachronistic set of swash capitals. <br/> <br/>More. Latin. Trajedy. :^)
LexKominek
LexKominek Sat, 24th October, 2009

Amazing!

p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 24th October, 2009

LK's Trajedy is a classic beauty ... and this tour de force certainly matches it's elegance. 10 is all I can give, but 10 it gets :)

aphoria
aphoria Sat, 24th October, 2009

Great additions will.i.ૐ.

afrojet
afrojet Sat, 24th October, 2009

Wow. This is a real Tour de Force. Looks amazing on the screen. I can't wait to get my hands dirty and test drive this beauty. Lots of fantastic ligatures and THOSE SWASH CAPS - what? how? OMG.

will.i.ૐ
will.i.ૐ Sat, 24th October, 2009

Links to those who ligatured before me :^)

Mrs Eaves

Camera

Optima Nova

Links to those who ligatured before me :^) <br/> <br/><a href="http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/emigre/mrs_eaves_just_ligatures/">Mrs Eaves</a> <br/> <br/><a href="http://flat-it.com/camera.php">Camera</a> <br/> <br/><a href="http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/linotype/optima_nova_pro_titling/">Optima Nova</a>
will.i.ૐ
will.i.ૐ Sat, 24th October, 2009

And thanks, always, for the love!

Lex: Glad you are still appreciating this – I still couldn’t have done it without you.

p2pnut, aphoria: I don’t know what took longer...coming up with which ligatures I wanted to include, creating them (and ensuring that actual words can be made with them :P ), or trying to organize it all in some semblance of order within the Latin Extended B Unicode range!

afrojet: My hat’s also still super off to you, my friend. Lex started this all. But – I must reiterate – it was really you who convinced me to add small caps (x-height small caps coming soon...). I hope you do enjoy and get some milage out of the result.

I’m still trying to figure out the best way to actually utilize it for my own devices. Photoshop still lacks a glyphs palette, Flash is giving me bizarre chopped serifs for certain letters in aliased mode (and also lacks an easy way to access the swashes and ligatures), and using the obviously more fully featured InDesign is just a strange way to work with bitmap fonts. Yet, setting the display performance to “fast display”, zooming to 100%, and creating text blocks of 32 pt text in InDesign seems to be the best approach for now. Not particularly versatile :-(

Huh. Maybe I need to split at least the swash caps into a distinct fontstruction.

Well, even if I can’t get full Flash pixel-font functionality out of this (outside of working it in FL) I have an intriguing ulterior motive for all this pixeling. My intention is to ultimately pique Mr. Meek’s interest and bring him into the discussion, because I think I have hit upon an idea for FontStruct’s evolution that has yet to be publicly addressed. I think it could be big!

Stay tuned, I promise to let the cat out of the bag with the next release ;^)

And thanks, always, for the love! <br/> <br/><b>Lex:</b> Glad you are still appreciating this – I still couldn’t have done it without you. <br/> <br/><b>p2pnut, aphoria:</b> I don’t know what took longer...coming up with <i>which</i> ligatures I wanted to include, creating them (and ensuring that actual words can be made with them :P ), or trying to organize it all in some semblance of order within the Latin Extended B Unicode range! <br/> <br/><b>afrojet:</b> My hat’s also still super off to you, my friend. Lex started this all. But – I must reiterate – it was really you who convinced me to add small caps (x-height small caps coming soon...). I hope you do enjoy and get some milage out of the result. <br/> <br/>I’m still trying to figure out the best way to actually utilize it for my own devices. Photoshop still lacks a <i>glyphs</i> palette, Flash is giving me bizarre chopped serifs for certain letters in aliased mode (and also lacks an easy way to access the swashes and ligatures), and using the obviously more fully featured InDesign is just a strange way to work with bitmap fonts. Yet, setting the display performance to “fast display”, zooming to 100%, and creating text blocks of 32 pt text in InDesign seems to be the best approach for now. Not particularly versatile :-( <br/> <br/>Huh. Maybe I need to split at least the swash caps into a distinct fontstruction. <br/> <br/>Well, even if I can’t get full Flash pixel-font functionality out of this (outside of working it in FL) I have an intriguing ulterior motive for all this pixeling. My intention is to ultimately pique Mr. Meek’s interest and bring him into the discussion, because I think I have hit upon an idea for FontStruct’s evolution that has yet to be publicly addressed. I think it could be big! <br/> <br/>Stay tuned, I promise to let the cat out of the bag with the next release ;^)
Frodo7
Frodo7 Sat, 24th October, 2009

Tour de force indeed. What you do (along with LexKominek) is poetry in the language of pixels. 10/10

thalamic
thalamic Sun, 25th October, 2009

I second all the above comments. It's pixel love.

gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Mon, 26th October, 2009

Hey, I wanna see this cat too. :-)

Superb work on the small caps.

gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Mon, 16th November, 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “More Latin Trajedy Titling Capitals” is now a Top Pick.