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Osgiliath

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by Frodo7


Details

Description:
Gothic pixel font inspired by Old English and RM Albion.
Stats:
98 characters, 40 downloads
Created:
Sun, 13th March, 2:43 PM 2011
Last Edit:
Mon, 13th February, 11:03 PM 2012
Permalink:
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/456794
Tags:
Pixel, Gothic, Medieval
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Discussion

Frodo7
Frodo7 Mon, 14th March, 2011

Well, the minuscules are ready. I'm working on the capitals. For best result use the PXL view. Comments, suggestions are welcome.

funk_king
funk_king Mon, 14th March, 2011

a very joyous occasion. elegant and efficient. remarkable in the amount of details achieved for a pixel font. good to see you back in fine form.

aphoria
aphoria Mon, 14th March, 2011

Very nice...I'm looking forward to the rest.

Good to see you again...it's been awhile.

xenophilius
xenophilius Wed, 16th March, 2011

Gorgeous! Very simplistic and yet beautiful.

Zarvon
Zarvon Wed, 16th March, 2011

Both the 'h' and 'a' are fantastic! Very nice work.

BanjoZebra
BanjoZebra Wed, 16th March, 2011

Add caps! Add caps!

9/10! 9/10!

Frodo7
Frodo7 Wed, 23rd March, 2011

elmoyenique
elmoyenique Wed, 23rd March, 2011

Master even at pixel size! Chapeau!
Üdvözlet minden csodálattal adózom! (Greetings with all my admiration!, Is it well written in Hungarian? I'm using Google).

funk_king
funk_king Thu, 24th March, 2011

outstanding font. incredible how you were able to synthesize and digitize your influences to create this gem. i love using the slider and watching the glyphs pop while viewing the sample text. is this the same Pippin that inspired the Broadway show? nice job.

Upixel
Upixel Thu, 24th March, 2011

Wow! it's a masterpiece
:)

Goatmeal
Goatmeal Thu, 24th March, 2011

This is a truly beautiful bitmap font. Terrific work, Frodo7!

xenophilius
xenophilius Thu, 24th March, 2011

Ahh! The caps are gorgeous! Very traditional and beautiful.
I wonder if I can change my 10 vote to an 11 vote?...

meek
meek Thu, 24th March, 2011

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

Frodo7
Frodo7 Sun, 27th March, 2011

Thank you for your comments and generous ratings. I am happy to publish something new on FS after a long pause. There are some glyphs I am still not happy with, there are some kerning problems too. This version is optimized for the sample text. I continue to add special characters, and maybe some diacritical marks to make the set as complete as possible.

@meek: Thank you very much for the special mention. The Pixel Preview feature in Fontstructor was of great help to give me instant feedback as I fine-tuned the letters.

@funk_king: Thank you for your kind words. I was surprised too, when I saw the amount of detail pixels can reproduce. Like many FS project, this one started with research, collecting samples of similar or relevant works. The next stage was the synthesis, as you pointed out, to create something different, and perhaps something better. Sorry I didn't see the Broadway musical.

@aphoria: Thank you. I hope you like the caps too.

@elmoyenique: Thank you for your comment. Google Translate didn't really excel this time. Hungarian is particularly elusive to machine translation as it uses far too many affixes to modify the meaning of the basic word. I appreciate your kindness, and only hope to have better luck with Spanish translation.

@Goatmeal: Praise from the bitmap font expert. Thank you.

@Xenophilius: Thank you. I am glad you like the capitals. You are no slouch when it comes to pixel fonts. Do you plan to add caps to serutagil?

stmarys1
stmarys1 Mon, 4th April, 2011

thats nice init

xenophilius
xenophilius Tue, 26th April, 2011

@Frodo: I might add caps... but 1) I am too freaking lazy and 2) I am using some of the caps for ligatures. That's basically a way to get lazy and shove some ligatures in the way of your capitals so you don't have to make any real caps.

Anyway, I cannot stop expressing my absolute love for this, the crowning jewel of all pixel fonts.

BlissfullySarcastic
BlissfullySarcastic Mon, 13th June, 2011

You are a font GOD. I'm just going through your gallery and everything's just...amazing.
I envy you.

zemiguelcardoso@gmail.com
zemiguelcardoso@gmail.com Thu, 16th June, 2011

Very beautiful pixel font.

EagleSoar97
EagleSoar97 Fri, 6th April, 2012

Isn't it amazing what can be artistically drawn out in the virtual world? Amazing word, Frodo7!