This is a sequel font to Bevel Dream, sharing the same design. The x-height here equals BD's caps height, and consequently, those letters can be used as small caps for this font (BD2). I don't plan Cyrillic support for BD2, but extended Latin is coming. Currently, it fully supports German.
I know summer stupor is upon us. Yet, I hope for some honest feedback. Cheers.
Remember back in the early days of FontStruct when we used to try and achieve such bevels through rendering technology of the day! We've come a long way. Thanks to Rob and you for bringing us here.
@thalamic: Thank you for your kind words. I remember well your metal series (silver, tin, lead), the fs Bas Relief, and Bevelicious of geneus1. They were like pixel art, using simple bricks to get different shades of grey. I recall the atmosphere of those days, experimenting with new techniques and making progress step by step. Fontstruct is now far more capable; the possibilities are almost endless.
@Frodo7 the ft ligature can be found in alphabetic presentation forms block (expert mode > Unicode letter sates > search for it) if you want to encode it in the actual glyph
@Luis Becerra If you are talking about U+FB05 (ſt), it may look like an ft ligature in some fonts, but it is not. It is actually a ligature composed of a long s and t (ſ + t).
Also, if there are plans to expand the character set in Glyphs, how would combining diacritics be handled in a font like this?
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Yesterday, July 5, I finally completed the alphabet. It looks magnificent!
This is a sequel font to Bevel Dream, sharing the same design. The x-height here equals BD's caps height, and consequently, those letters can be used as small caps for this font (BD2). I don't plan Cyrillic support for BD2, but extended Latin is coming. Currently, it fully supports German.
I know summer stupor is upon us. Yet, I hope for some honest feedback. Cheers.
Great! The lowercase is fantastic! 10+❤️
English sample text. No kerning.
@elmoyenique: Thank you for your comment and generous rating.
The text appears to be working; there are no major flaws. It is an excerpt from Wikipedia, on the Battle of Hastings. There are enough Ws in it.
This font is just fantastic.
Remember back in the early days of FontStruct when we used to try and achieve such bevels through rendering technology of the day! We've come a long way. Thanks to Rob and you for bringing us here.
@thalamic: Thank you for your kind words. I remember well your metal series (silver, tin, lead), the fs Bas Relief, and Bevelicious of geneus1. They were like pixel art, using simple bricks to get different shades of grey. I recall the atmosphere of those days, experimenting with new techniques and making progress step by step. Fontstruct is now far more capable; the possibilities are almost endless.
@Frodo7 the ft ligature can be found in alphabetic presentation forms block (expert mode > Unicode letter sates > search for it) if you want to encode it in the actual glyph
@Luis Becerra (VeritasFonts): I'll do the final assembly in Glyphs. It is easy to define any ligature there using a simple script.
@Luis Becerra If you are talking about U+FB05 (ſt), it may look like an ft ligature in some fonts, but it is not. It is actually a ligature composed of a long s and t (ſ + t).
Also, if there are plans to expand the character set in Glyphs, how would combining diacritics be handled in a font like this?
@Bryndan W. Meyerholt (BWM): I don't know the answer. I've never edited colour fonts in Glyphs.
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