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Part of my "Found Type" project at UWE where we had to design a font for a theme that we chose.
I chose Saintly.
Throughout my research, I looked at the architecture of churches, the similarities in there designs and how certain shapes could easily be recognised as being linked to that type of architecture.
I then started looking at Dante Alghieri's Divine Comedy and the illustrations by John Flaxman and Gustav Doré.
At first it became difficult trying to figure out how to implement this into a font, but then I took on a challenge,
Would it be possible to get Doré's engravings into the font.
Then another thought crossed my mind, how do images look when compressed to low pixel quality sizes and how they are still recognisable.
So I did that, I bought a book of Doré's illustrations for the divine comedy, and they started to build into the letters.
Each letter also has this Art Deco like area to it which went well for the Stain Glass Window approach I also wanted in the design.
It took a lot of practice to get this right, and there was a fair amount of copy and pasting here and there but overall I'm quite happy with the turn out.
I hope you all enjoy!
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10/10!
Also thanks for the praise guys, means a bunch!! :D
I've contacted fontstruct about this buuuuuuuuuuut they're a busy lot!
I'd love to do something like it again though, I've become somewhat an art deco/ornate-aholic!
· Solid ”black” displays at 20% dark gray. This is a consistent palette throughout that unifies the site (same gray value as background). A side benefit: it softens the starkness and harsh edges of fontstructions and generally makes them look more refined.
· Above a fixed pixel/brick ratio, the previewer applies a 1 px stroke to the outlines of ALL bricks so that no hairline gaps appear between bricks due to rounding errors.
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The first note is of particular interest for illustrated, or grayscale pxl fontstructions. When black is restored to 0% in the downloaded file, the contrast and apparent gamma shift dramatically. Everything gets darker and more contrasty except for white, and this can bring out some ugly aliasing and posterizing that wasn’t noticeable or offensive in the preview widget. Setting the type color to 20% gray, if possible, helps fix the display issue. My InDesign sample below demonstrates this. The pt setting are 128 pt, 256 pt, and 512 pt for the three lines respectively. Which brings me to my final point of consideration:
· Any grayscale “pixel art” fontstruction will render on screen both blurry and full of moiré aliasing if the pt size is not an integer multiple (or factor) of the pt size which renders a pixel/brick ratio of 1. Thus the sample values of 128, 256, 512 (or 64, 32, 16...)
Would there be any reason why after installing the font onto my computer it won't show up or will actually type out as a completely different font entirely?
In my experience, this can always be determined by checking the character palate or equivalent menu to see what font is actually displaying after the substitution.
The other scenario I can suppose (knowing nothing about your configuration) might be harder to fix. This is the case that the .ttf file you have downloaded is exceeding some OS-level memory constraint and you are getting a weird system-wide substitution.
What’s your set up?
I think it's planned that way, that "e" is in font's name: Dorés Comedia.
But yeah as Architaraz says, it's the É in Doré. :)
Also does anyone know how to make these fonts work on computers, I install the font but it keeps coming out as something entirely different. :(
I need to have my font accessible because of a type specimin booklet I'm making so any advice you guys can provide would be awesome. :D
Thanks!
1) Download the font.
2) Extract the .ttf file (onto the desktop for instance).
3) Open C:\Windows\Fonts
4) Copy/Move or Drag & Drop the .ttf file into the Fonts folder (any way works).
The font should now be installed and ready for use in any application.
If I remember rightly, for Windows XP you find the Fonts in the Control Panel - otherwise the same procedure.
Good luck :)
I have Vista so it works the same way :(
Hmm, you might try installing your fontstruction using third-party font management software. There’s a bunch out there for Windows: FontExplorer X has a free 30-day trial and there are tons of freeware solutions out there.
I had no problem installing Dorés on my mac using FontExplorer. Any fontstructors out there able to install it on a windows machine?
All I've got at home is an ancient Toshiba laptop with the processing equivalent of a microwave.
Turn a 4 letter word into a 3D model, so I made a light feature!
Then I used this new thing I found called Relief Paste which is kinda like Lead Tubing used on stain glass. :D
Then I used glass paint to add the finishing touches :D
Also comes in different colours.
I was really desperate to get actual lead tubing, tried ordering some but the only affordable one was in america... and by the time it arrived I would've gone past the deadline.
One thing I learned from this project though, PLAN AHEAD!!!
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