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by thalamic
cloned from mostly by kix
see also Juarez FM by cassianodj, and GoGG101 by Sixozzzz
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this is a masterful achievement. your technical abilities as demonstrated in render the original 4Xs is a feat unto itself. then to add such a detailed fill - incredible. another high note :)
sorry to hear about your technical difficulties. in the best of circumstances creativity is a delicate act, but when challenged, results can be...amazing :) i think among all fonstructers, you definitely foster a since of community and strong support and encouragement of other designers. when you post all is well, when you don't i wonder what's up. now i understand by you sharing your plight.
now i can see when fs was experiencing a "few" migration bugs that this only added to your...um, frustration :) but i know that these things only fuel the fire, especially when one is determined to see the end result. thanks again for sharing and great job here. continue :)
Thanks, font_king.
This font was a challenge to do, for sure. First it was a matter of figuring out what to paint the insides with. For some reason I wanted it to be an argyle or a tartan pattern but they just didn't look...er...smooth. Then I tried other patterns, none looking nice, until I relented to a chrome-like effect. Once that got decided, it turned out that almost every shape used the shallow angled bricks, the smaller of which left plenty of space per brick that the dot of the pattern it overlay would still be visible. Brick stacks.
I love that brick stacking is possible but it is a chore to use. So many mouse moves and clicks just to get one stack. Then because of the undulating wave pattern, determining which dot to stack at any given point was a test of my patience. Towards the end, I figured out a way to make the stacks easier by copying multiple patterns and multiple letter shapes on the same stage and stacking a whole line of bricks in one go. Frustrating, yet somehow it spurned me on.
As if that was not enough, this FontStruction kept doing something weird. At random, the bricks would swap themselves, leaving, as you can imagine, a mess of the design. I asked Rob Meek to rescue it once but when it happened again (at lower case x), I just gave up. Nearly gave up. I sat about carefully reassigning each brick to another completely different shape brick and then swapping the original brick back in. Testing the patience, oh yes. Before the font was complete, I had to do the brick swap thing four times. You have no idea how glad I was to get this font done. :)
On top of it, someone, very considerately, dropped a 1 rating on this almost right away. Brought me down from my lofty thoughts. But your comment makes up for that and many other 1 ratings. Thanks.
@thalamic
I know what you mean about the down-voters. I have a "fan" that instantly gives me a 1 on almost every single font I release. I'm assuming it's the same person...maybe I'm just insecure, and I have a whole bunch of haters. :)
Regardless of the votes, this font is a great work and your patience paid off.









