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Asgard Annarr

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by will.i.ૐ


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While recreating/revising one of my very first fontstructions – April 2008’s Asgard (second to last one) – I realized it was going to take something more drastic still than switching to 2x2 filter settings to realize my dream of a harmonized U&lc set.

The original’s lowercase had several compelling and unique features (at the time), the uppercase worked well enough in all caps display settings...but they very rarely sat comfortably together. The answer couldn’t have been more simple: since the caps (which surprisingly came first...or does this just reveal my noobishness at the time?) are rather narrow, the lowercase itself needed to follow a more logically elongated model.

Here the flexibility of 2x2 filters kicks into high gear as the original design’s lc is tweaked by half a brick extra height to bring about a more righteously rockin’ family.

(Asgard 1.x plateaued at 829 characters, so – as always – more to come...)
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184 characters, 57 downloads
Created:
Thu, 31st December, 8:13 PM 2009
Last Edit:
Fri, 26th February, 9:06 PM 2010
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will.i.ૐ
will.i.ૐ Sat, 2nd January, 2010


Frodo7
Frodo7 Sat, 2nd January, 2010

Beautiful serif. It has many elegant solutions (eg: v,w,V,W). I especially value the a,g,s, B,G,H,K,M,X, (well I could go on...). Amazing feat for such a small grid. 10/10

Fancyful name from Norse mythology.


riccard0
riccard0 Sat, 2nd January, 2010

That's a "g"! :-)


p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 2nd January, 2010

Magnificent ... it just looks so right. 10/10


gray.scale
gray.scale Sun, 3rd January, 2010

very good! the letter "g" is very cool. How you overcame these bricks?:

very good! the letter "g" is very cool. How you overcame these bricks?:
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geneus1
geneus1 Tue, 5th January, 2010

Thanks for bringing this one back, Will. It was well missed, along with your previous works. Out of the few fonstructions I have cloned, yours I have kept for learning purposes.


madrileno7
madrileno7 Thu, 7th January, 2010

Really nice! Every letter works so well! And the "g" is just perfect! Good job ;)


afrojet
afrojet Thu, 11th February, 2010

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



gray.scale
gray.scale Mon, 1st March, 2010

sorry, I pasted the message in Portuguese, disregard the above

"Hey Will, thanks for the reply.
I have a suggestion for some lowercase characters using brickstacking"
see below:

sorry, I pasted the message in Portuguese, disregard the above
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<br/>"Hey Will, thanks for the reply.
<br/>I have a suggestion for some lowercase characters using brickstacking"
<br/>see below: