Superb detail. Good to see the UWE are back in town.
You may find this essential tool useful for ay future projects. http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/all_composites_saved_in_my_bricks

Magnificent! I think Saintly really suits for this kind of design.
10/10!

Incredible details!

I have some problems to see this big fonts on my screen. This is normal? I see these big decorated fonts with difficulties at big format and they seems not well (blurry) on little format too (here are two samples for that). What can I do, please?

I believe it's just the preview window, downloaded it should look better (although my computer freezes on it - may be too complex...)

Can't even comprehend how you did this. it's so good :)

A few notes on the preview widget:

· 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.

· Clicking “pxl” will give you a pixel/brick ratio of 1 (as long as filters are set to their default values). Shift+clicking the “pxl” button will zoom in by a factor of 2 from its current position.

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...)

For some software, attempting to type glyphs that do not exist in a given font will result in a default font substitution. Once the substitution occurs, all characters after that point will be set in the default font regardless of if they exist in the original font selection. You have to manually change the font back to what you started with. The more common software convention is to use a fallback font for missing glyphs, but the default substitution affects some adobe software, for instance.

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?

TNX, will.i.ૐ!

Wonderfully executed with such amazing detail. 10/10

@Arty Marty: Please, look at the top of the E for some loose bricks.

@elmoyenique:
I think it's planned that way, that "e" is in font's name: Dorés Comedia.

Stunning details!!!...

The detail in this is insane Mart, well done mate! Hard work payed off!

What program are you trying to use it in?

For Windows 7

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 :)

@Arty_Marty:

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?

Have you tried typing (upper case) in Word? I think sometimes a different font will be shown in the menu if the desired font doesn't contain lower case glyphs. The font should still work though. I'm not sure about Illustrator.

I downloaded and installed this font - but in Word it came out as a generic, default, serif. I am using Windows 7.

Hmmm, interesting. I went back and used the font in Paint Shop Pro and it worked fine. Double checked with Word, but it still gives the generic result.

It also works in Wordpad. I can confirm that it doesn't appear in Illustrator. It might be to do with the complexity of the font. 1.5mB is big. Rebooting is always worth a try, or maybe you could get on a Mac to do your layout work for the project?

Fantastic! The stained glass look fully realized. How did you print this? Color transparency? Lasertran decals?

Lol, that explains the lack of “pixels”! The photo is just blurry enough I couldn’t be sure if it was digitally colored. Very nicely done – I especially like the subtle dimensional quality of the relief paste.