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Mirkwood 2nd Iteration

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by Frodo7
cloned from Mirkwood 1st Iteration by Frodo7, and Mirkwood Regular by Frodo7


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Clone of Mirkwood 1st Iteration. A pixel font with self-symmetry. Limited character set.
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97 characters, 31 downloads
Created:
Sat, 24th October, 11:25 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Sun, 25th October, 10:15 AM 2009
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Discussion

p2pnut
p2pnut Sun, 25th October, 2009

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


gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Mon, 26th October, 2009

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? :-)


gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Mon, 26th October, 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Mirkwood 2nd Iteration ” is now a Top Pick.


Frodo7
Frodo7 Mon, 26th October, 2009

@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.


typophilus50
typophilus50 Tue, 24th November, 2009

love the lateral thinkin!


Mark Titan
Mark Titan Tue, 16th March, 2010

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


Frodo7
Frodo7 Tue, 16th March, 2010

@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.