Thank you very much for your comments and votes. This work is an end of a long quest to find a way how to create a stencil font of this kind on FS.

@intaglio: Believe it or not, you were on my mind when I was working on some particular letters. I thought, you would shape it just the way I did (e.g. those little spikes at the end of the strokes, they were added later).

@funk_king: You've said it beautifully: the "fonts come to us". I was looking for this font for months, carrying around some sketches and samples with me all the time. They all suffered from being too complicated and polygonal. You are right about the songwriter and the melody. One could not put it more clearly.

@p2pnut: How interesting these shapes draw different pictures, metaphors in peoples minds. I thought at some point it looked like toothpaste squeezed out in three colours.

@djnippa: The Union Jack, interesting. I just wrote about the toothpaste tricolor. I might do some demo pic in red, blue and white. Special thanks for the critique. This is the sort of feedback, practical info I was looking for when I decided to publish this work half finished. I've modified the "r" accordingly, and it looks a lot better. The flat bottom "w": well, I've made a new version, but it looks inconsistent with the rest of the set. I'm not sure whether it was really what you suggested.

@afrojet: Thank you for the special mention. The font is only half done. I hope it won't disappoint you when completed. You are right about the 3D, and this is where it gets very exciting. I plan to make a set of small caps, and a version of lighter weight.

You can clone it. It's a great honor to me that a pro designer sees potential in my work. I've changed the license, it remains open for cloning for a day. Other honest members are also welcome, if they're interested. I'm thrilled to see some new version(s) I would never imagined. And I can imagine a lot of things. I'm also aware of my own limits, and the huge potential of cross-pollination of ideas. I keep my works locked only to prevent copying and potential abuse by third parties. Sales for profit at some time in the future is not completely out of the picture.

I wish, I could have written something more fanciful, but this is how it happened. (How about this: Drinking good old ale with friends in The Green Dragon and smoking pipe-weed - longbottom leaf, of course.) But the exact location, the drink, and the scenery are not important. What is important, that after a tumultuous week I had a few minutes of perfect peace and happiness, and got the idea and inspiration for this font.

@neurone error: Thank you for your comment. I've made a lot more alternative characters before deciding what went to this version. The whole creation process is like a tree: hard choices at every branching. It's funny, but I don't feel any mutation or major change. What I know, that a couple of months ago I turned my focus to stencil fonts. I wanted to have more stencils in my portfolio, some with quite original features, and with strong visual impact. I've done some research, some experimenting, brainstorming, and now I have 4-5 promising designs in the incubator. The first two hatchlings were Boikot and Remolino. It's only a matter of inspiration and having enough spare time before the others will emerge from the eggs. What I'm saying is that the whole process is more conscious, preplanned and managed for me, in contrast to what you've suggested.

@neurone error: Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. Of course, the "unconscious" is essential in any creative work. I used the word "inspiration" for the same thing. No amount of planning would result in a new font without a great deal of inspiration. Inspiration is the key. Planning and management only help to stay focused. I also tend to deviate from the original idea and go wherever my Muse takes me. It's a small miracle that anything gets done at all.

@elmoyenique: Thank you for your comments. Your second guess was right: no fancy FS 2.0 tools have been used here. How do you like the font name? Sometimes it's difficult to find a good name for a font.

@Upixel: Thank you for your comment and generous vote. It gives me much needed inspiration. I'm working on the capitals at the moment. As usual, it takes more than one attempt to get some glyphs right.

@afrojet: Thank you for selecting my work for Featured Download. This is a special recognition I still have to earn by finishing the set.

@djnippa: Eight different versions for a letter! Now I can see better your point. I really like the 1st,3rd, and 4th. I've made one identical with the 4th version, but I thought the bottom notch was too small to make any difference. Not anymore. Thank you for your help.

@Qaj: Thank you for your comment. I gladly help you if I could.

First, it is very important to have a good idea to start with. What sort of letters have in mind, what style, for what particular purpose. I usually start making sketches on square paper with pencil, and/or marker pen. I start with the most difficult letters to fit in the grid (e,s) or the ones with diagonal strokes.

The next stage is to build the font in Fontstructor using the selection of bricks. That's easy, since I already considered the possible bricks on the square paper. You can start working straightaway in Fontstructor omitting the first stage completely, but for me paper & pencil is still the most flexible medium for brainstorming.

Third stage: a series of refinements until I am happy with the result.

In this case with Remolino Stencil I've set the filters to 2:2 (select Advanced > View > Filters, set the values of both the Horizontal and Vertical Brick Size to 2.) This magnifies the bricks to equal four squares on the grid, and consequently gives you more freedom to place the bricks. You can see my selection of bricks on the picture. Very simple bricks, nothing special really.

You can also learn a lot by dissecting and reverse engineering some good fonts, in cases where cloning is permitted in the license. You can make your own modified version under the same license as an exercise to hone your skills. That's all.

What do you mean by "trying to find a language for myself"?

@neurone error: Actually, I thought about opening a forum for FS tutorials and ask some seasoned masters to share their secrets. We don't really have a forum here for that purpose (yet); some of them already shared very useful pieces of knowledge (e.g. brickstacking) before. The atmosphere here has been always very friendly and helpful, and not much secretive, and that alone sped up innovation and steadily improved the quality of works.

@LexKominek: I've made another version for the J, a more modest one. Your comment is the reason I keep this one as a default.

@Qaj: You are a rare mind around here (as folks making fonts in their spare time would not be queer enough). You invent scripts with ease, whole systems of writing with their "alphabets", and create some nice fonts for them. This is a whole new level of abstraction in typography, and don't expect much understanding from us literate almost exclusively in Latin script. We marvel at your works without much comprehension.

I ventured outside the realm of traditional scripts only once. See my Tengwar script Elrond .

@Qaj: Yes, I know Omniglot.com well. It helped me a few times with useful information about obscure scripts I was looking for. Having two scripts listed there is a great achievement. What scripts are we talking about?

@cewill75gt1hb: Is it a sign of a senior moment, or a serious distraction?

I often observed, if I wanted to focus on something, there was always something else to interrupt, hinder or thwart my effort. The only reason I could manage to do anything at all was because a third thing interfered with the second one...