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High Voltage

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by shasta


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Description:
Another script experiment, again with a pinch of blackletter, but also with a solid lacing of rock'n'roll... For the fun/easiness of it, this was done with pre-2.0-features only. Funny how this already gives is an old-school feel. :)

A lot of refinement is still to be done... Suggestions are, as always, welcome!

And I will probably add some more latin characters soon...


For some more samples, check my blog!
Stats:
80 characters, 104 downloads
Created:
Sat, 24th July, 6:02 PM 2010
Last Edit:
Sun, 15th August, 7:59 PM 2010
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Discussion

shasta
shasta Mon, 26th July, 2010


aphoria
aphoria Mon, 26th July, 2010

Rock on dude...this is awesome.


djnippa
djnippa Mon, 26th July, 2010

Damn, I'm right in the middle of designing my own Heavy Metal font, and then this drops in......!
Brilliant, lovin your work, especially the descenders g,j & y 10/10


minimum
minimum Mon, 26th July, 2010

Such crisp, satisfying work. I'm in love.


laynecom
laynecom Mon, 26th July, 2010

Superb.


meek
meek Mon, 26th July, 2010

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “High Voltage” is now a Top Pick.


elmoyenique
elmoyenique Mon, 26th July, 2010

Well done, once again!!! Another A+!


nicholasgross
nicholasgross Mon, 26th July, 2010

Wow, this is really fantastic. I love the angle and the thicks vs the thins and all the electricity angly bits. Only thing I noticed was maybe the lower bit of the c is a bit high making it look a little g-ish. But nice work!


LexKominek
LexKominek Tue, 27th July, 2010

Reminds me of the Gibson logo. I'd love to see a set of swash alternates.


shasta
shasta Tue, 27th July, 2010

Thanks everyone, glad you like it... And thanks for the pink dot, Rob!

@nippa: Can't wait to see your Heavy Metal font! We should all bring our studded belts next time... ;)

@nicholasgross: You might be right about the c... The thing is I wanted to make as few letters as possible with a higher script connection like o, p, v, etc, in order not to break the jagged baseline too often. Lowercase c looked ok and readable to me, but I might have to look into it again. Thanks for the feedback!

@LexKominek: Something like this? (The thing with alternates and swooshes is that it really annoys me to put them on slots of other characters... Perfectionism in its negative way.:P) (And one more reason to switch to open type...)

Thanks everyone, glad you like it... And thanks for the pink dot, Rob!
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<br/>@nippa: Can't wait to see your Heavy Metal font! We should all bring our studded belts next time... ;)
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<br/>@nicholasgross: You might be right about the c... The thing is I wanted to make as few letters as possible with a higher script connection like o, p, v, etc, in order not to break the jagged baseline too often. Lowercase c looked ok and readable to me, but I might have to look into it again. Thanks for the feedback!
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<br/>@LexKominek: Something like this? (The thing with alternates and swooshes is that it really annoys me to put them on slots of other characters... Perfectionism in its negative way.:P) (And one more reason to switch to open type...)

p2pnut
p2pnut Tue, 27th July, 2010

Hot dang! This works so well ... as Nigel Tufnel says in 'This Is Spinal Tap' - "It goes right up to eleven". Sadly I can only give it 10 :)


afrojet
afrojet Tue, 27th July, 2010

Awesome. I'm loving all these blackletter scripts. Highly usable and those ornaments really tie it together. Great work Shasta.


shasta
shasta Tue, 27th July, 2010

Thanks to both of you! Glad you like it...

I'm sure Nigel Tufnel would have liked the general feel of this font, p2pnut... ;) The Spinal Tap font BTW looks like it was made for a fontstructed revival.

And @afrojet: These ornaments where really just a style suggestion for LexKominek. Only two would be a bit shabby... So: there are definitely more to come!


zen_killa
zen_killa Tue, 27th July, 2010

wow !


LexKominek
LexKominek Tue, 27th July, 2010

@shasta - Those are cool! I was thinking more along the lines of the 'n' in the Gibson logo or Bookman Swash.

I wonder if the FS developers are considering OpenType features.


meek
meek Wed, 28th July, 2010

@LexKominek I'd love to add support for some OT features. But definitely kerning support first!


Upixel
Upixel Thu, 29th July, 2010

Bravo shasta encore une fois ton travail est sublime

I like it a lot, the g is so well crafted. The design is simple and very very strong. I can see many usage of this one... nothing but a 10


Em42
Em42 Tue, 3rd August, 2010

Great script+blackletter font, and the ornaments are a perfect complement!

The fact that was done with pre-FontStruct-2.0 features shows how masterpieces can be also accomplished with the simplest tools.


geneus1
geneus1 Wed, 4th August, 2010

This is ironically sophisticated in its simplicity. Well done, shasta. Ditto what Em42 said.


shasta
shasta Wed, 4th August, 2010

Thanks for your kind words everyone!

@LexKominek: Some alternate letters with higher descenders/ascenders in the Gibson-logo style would be cool. I'll see if I can add them, but currently I don't even have the time to add the simpler ornaments...

@Upixel: Merci! J'attend toujours ton premier blackletter...;)

@Em42: I knew you would like this better than my other blackletter script with the treasonous bezier fakes... I am, as always, on your side. ;)

...and @geneus1: I do indeed strive for sophistication in simplicity, but that's probably less for reasons of inner conviction than out of pure laziness. Still glad it works sometimes. ;)


meek
meek Sun, 15th August, 2010

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “High Voltage” is now a current Featured FontStruction.


meek
meek Sun, 15th August, 2010

is there an ß in there?


shasta
shasta Sun, 15th August, 2010

There is now... Don't want to let the german heavy metal dudes down.;)

And thanks a lot for the Featured FontStruction! As always a great honor, and as always completely unexpected... :)

I'm sorry btw for not having worked on the ornaments and the alternates yet. I have moved to a new flat in a new town (without internet connection so far), and I've started working in your standard office job, leaving all the retrospectively much appreciated freedom of independent time-allocation that came with studying behind... In these first weeks, I've only had the time to occassionally peek on fontstruct.com to see what's going on during my breaks, but never to seriously start working on the extensions of this font, let alone a new font. Hope that will change sometime soon!


thalamic
thalamic Mon, 16th August, 2010

You are King Midas!


thalamic
thalamic Mon, 16th August, 2010

I mean that in a good way. :-)


sahwar
sahwar Wed, 18th August, 2010

I can see this font being used on the logo of a nextgen rock'n'roll band!

P.S. Now seriously, that's definitely a great fontstruction, I can wholeheartedly agree with it being selected as a FS staff Top Pick, as well as receiving a Featured status.
You guys just can't stop amazing me with your insane FS-ing skills! :)


Voogan21
Voogan21 Sat, 21st August, 2010

Its looking great!:) 10/10


cayo
cayo Tue, 24th August, 2010

Wow, almost speechless!
I might "borrow" it for a flyer.
Nice Swirlies.


bosslinkx7
bosslinkx7 Fri, 27th August, 2010

good


logomaniaman
logomaniaman Fri, 10th September, 2010

Beautiful and unique!!! Well Done!!!! Two thumbs up!!


shasta
shasta Mon, 20th September, 2010

The High Voltage sample from my blog:

The High Voltage sample from my <a href="http://mentalmenthol.blogspot.com/">blog</a>:

Pieter
Pieter Sun, 2nd January, 2011

Incredible work!