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fs Ooki Woodcut

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by thalamic


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Description:
fs Ooki, Woodcut. 21 grid-block tall.

Monospace is my new obsession. Poor W and M.

Stats:
49 characters, 35 downloads
Created:
Wed, 22nd September, 2:24 AM 2010
Last Edit:
Fri, 1st October, 7:51 AM 2010
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Discussion

thalamic
thalamic Sat, 25th September, 2010


Upixel
Upixel Sun, 26th September, 2010

MW... don't worry with the negative line inside... the mw look great even if they are narrowed.
Very nice sample and cool font. 10

You're a good font designer and very original.
I love your work your're very inspiring


thalamic
thalamic Sun, 26th September, 2010

What a compliment! Thanks, Upixel.

Your stuff is cool too. :-)


thalamic
thalamic Sun, 26th September, 2010


thalamic
thalamic Sun, 26th September, 2010


thalamic
thalamic Sun, 26th September, 2010

Photoshop faux-stamp are one thing but in the spirit of the competition, it was only fair to actually hand make it. That was easier thought than done.

Years of making foam-core presentation boards has left me pretty handy with the X-Acto knife. Today I found out the difference between slicing paper vs. rubber. It should have taken minutes to do the stamp; it took hours. The pliability of the rubber is a pretty awesome property...except when you are trying to cut it with a very rusty knife. (It's Sunday. Everything closed.) It took a poke-lift-poke cut to extract the negative space. Four hours later...and my fingers and thumb are still numb.

Technical Notes: The letters had to be flipped-over in print. Illustrator. Tried carving a potato first. That got messy quick. Hunted around for a sturdy, spongy, slice-able material around the house. Found an old inner tire tube. Glued the flipped letters on it and eventually got the separate pieces. The print was at 256pt. It was too small. Should have used a 512pt print. Searched the house for a thing to mount the rubber stamp. Found these 'put the right shape in the right hole' shapes in the discarded toys from when the kids were little. They even had handy grab-knobs on them. Perfect. Glued the rubber on and waited while it all dried. All our current digital cameras are out of order these days. Then I remembered an old forgotten CyberShot that only works on power. Luckily, anal-retentive organization allows me to know where things are usually. Borrowed mom's oil paints and an old dark background shirt. Paint. Stamp. Click. Click. Grab. Edit. Post.

Whew! What an interactive experience. This is the first time I've taken fontstruct live. Awesome! Thanks.


Abneurone Fluid Types
Abneurone Fluid Types Sun, 26th September, 2010

the font didn't convince me regarding the theme, too much clean and straight to evoke something handmade, you neededto add many photoshop effects to give the feel. But your "real" hamndmade stuff is really cool . and what an epic funny story, it's been good entertainment reading it.


funk_king
funk_king Mon, 27th September, 2010

quite a realization of the font. perhaps we need a sub-category for best handmade use of font in addition to overall best handmade font. yours is one of the best samples of using the base font in a real-life way. cool stuff.


afrojet
afrojet Mon, 27th September, 2010

Wonderful. The handmade stamps really show what can happen when the digital enters the organic realm. The result is beautifully distressed.


beate
beate Tue, 28th September, 2010

Exquisite and fine work!
That's verry nice.
Beate


naveenchandru
naveenchandru Mon, 4th October, 2010

this is really handmade.
superb!


meek
meek Mon, 25th October, 2010

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