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by thalamic


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Description:
Lay The I Flat on top of this to fill in the missing parts.
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39 characters, 852 downloads
Created:
Thu, 15th January, 8:57 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Wed, 11th May, 3:34 PM 2011
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http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/138449
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V10, Fs The I, Shadow, Slant, Lowercase, Numerals
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thalamic
thalamic Fri, 16th January, 2009

saberrider
saberrider Fri, 16th January, 2009

awesome and very useful. i love that touch of bauhaus design.

the only thing that distracts me a little is the x. i can see that there arent many solutions in that system but it really reminds me of a swastika (not the nazi one but the traditional sign). i would really much appreciate an alternative x but the typeface is great anyway.

thalamic
thalamic Fri, 16th January, 2009

Thanks, saberrider. The x has been updated, as requested. Enjoy.

saberrider
saberrider Fri, 16th January, 2009

cool. i like x much better now. :)

intaglio
intaglio Fri, 16th January, 2009

Nifty idea. You really have a talent for visualising quite difficult things. And getting more so as time goes on.

SquarePeg
SquarePeg Fri, 16th January, 2009

I voted only 9 points because there are no numerals (coming soon, perhaps?)... This is excellent, thalamic!

funk_king
funk_king Fri, 16th January, 2009

another nice one :)

thalamic
thalamic Fri, 16th January, 2009

@saberrider, funk_king: Thank you. Encouragement makes it easy to continue.

@intaglio: This was a fun font to do. How suggestible we all are!

@SquarePeg: Thanks. These numerals are for you.

@saberrider, funk_king: Thank you. Encouragement makes it easy to continue. <br/> <br/>@intaglio: This was a fun font to do. How suggestible we all are! <br/> <br/>@SquarePeg: Thanks. These numerals are for you.
SquarePeg
SquarePeg Fri, 16th January, 2009

I've raised my vote to 10 points, thalamic. :-)

Zini
Zini Fri, 16th January, 2009

this one is amazing! getting the 3D-effect without an outline. i consider if a non-italic version is possible with fontstruct...

jmarquez
jmarquez Sat, 17th January, 2009

This one calls for a uppercase.
good job.

thalamic
thalamic Sun, 18th January, 2009

Improvement or made it worse?

Improvement or made it worse?
SquarePeg
SquarePeg Sun, 18th January, 2009

Well, I think the t is harder to read now... But I don't think the half-serifs are all that bad. But maybe you should (gasp!) have two versions of The I. Part of the older version's strength, for me, was the simplicity of the shapes.

afrojet
afrojet Sun, 18th January, 2009

Hey Thamlamic. Great concept. I've been toying with an oblique 'Struction as well but thought I'd put it on the back-burner until some kind of right side tracking came down the pipe. Do you care to share any strategies you used in spacing this one out on the grid?

thalamic
thalamic Sun, 18th January, 2009

@SquarePeg: I agree. Maybe I will clone it and re-simplify it. But the t is more interesting now, no?

@afrojet: Nothing special. Some characters are at the left edge, some go left one, some two; j goes over 6 grid spaces; etc. The oblique makes it convenient to have bottom-right serifs as they still fit in the top-right overhang. The same thing makes kerning a nightmare for d, f and l because they extend to the right two grid spaces too much. The sample is manually kerned. (--added extra kern space between t / h, removed same between d / i and d / e; the rest are default--) I enabled Clone so check it out. :)

Defining the right side limit would definitely fix some of the kerning problems but it won't be a full kerning solution. Someday, if I get bored of FontStruct, I may try to fix the kerning issues in FontLab. Some-distant-day, ie.

thalamic
thalamic Mon, 19th January, 2009

afrojet's comment got me intrigued. Although the left starting point for each glyph in this and The I Flat is the same, the shadow is two grid spaces wide, hence the width of each character in The I was a bit more than The I Flat, making it tedious to lay one on top of the other, requiring per-character kerning at design time. So I broke out FontLab and cleaned up points, fixed the metrics and added kerning info into this and The I Flat. The result is shown in the sample below, which is just two layers of text, one in each font, without any manual adjustment. I can't upload those fonts anywhere, but if you contact me though the handy-dandy message service with your address, I'll be glad to email them to you.

afrojet's comment got me intrigued. Although the left starting point for each glyph in this and The I Flat is the same, the shadow is two grid spaces wide, hence the width of each character in The I was a bit more than The I Flat, making it tedious to lay one on top of the other, requiring per-character kerning at design time. So I broke out FontLab and cleaned up points, fixed the metrics and added kerning info into this and The I Flat. The result is shown in the sample below, which is just two layers of text, one in each font, without any manual adjustment. I can't upload those fonts anywhere, but if you contact me though the handy-dandy message service with your address, I'll be glad to email them to you.
afrojet
afrojet Mon, 19th January, 2009

Most excellent. Thanks for the pointers. I will be eager to compare the two.

geneus1
geneus1 Mon, 26th January, 2009

I'm gone for a while and miss out on all the fun. Splendid, thalamic. Now I can't wait for right side tracking.

laynecom
laynecom Wed, 28th January, 2009

It always amazes me what you can come up with, thalamic.

Great work.

thalamic
thalamic Wed, 11th February, 2009

Thanks guys.

The I and The I Flat have been re-mastered--thanks to the new spacing controls. The I Flat should now lie on top of the The I perfectly aligned without the need to manually kern one or the other. The ying to the yang, Gene. :)

Thanks guys. <br/> <br/>The I and <a href="http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/139570">The I Flat</a> have been re-mastered--thanks to the new spacing controls. <b>The I Flat</b> should now lie on top of the <b>The I</b> perfectly aligned without the need to manually kern one or the other. The ying to the yang, Gene. :)
emepar7
emepar7 Wed, 11th March, 2009

All the letters look so perfect. I think the space is a bit too narrow though.

kix
kix Wed, 11th March, 2009

sorry man...

@emepar7:

you seem to have the need to do something better in everything, right?
You made some really "obscure" suggestions on here, not always and sometimes really useful.
But in some of your comments, i don't know what to think...
Do you honestly think thalamic didn't balance the space button's width by his own feeling/decision ?

emepar7
emepar7 Thu, 12th March, 2009

I have nothing but love for this font...it's a 10/10. The stars are to vote on a font, isn't the discussion to say (subjectively) what works and what doesn't? I wish people critiqued my fonts more not less! That's the only way to improve. I downloaded this awhile ago but just looked at the sample text and found it hard to read.

jhejka
jhejka Wed, 1st April, 2009

Great job! I'm making my own version of this with capitals.

funk_king
funk_king Wed, 13th May, 2009

where you been?

Kohji
Kohji Thu, 4th June, 2009

Great job!

storm
storm Tue, 22nd September, 2009

ilike

typophilus50
typophilus50 Wed, 23rd December, 2009

Remarkable how the original, when expressed, seems so inevitable!

thalamic
thalamic Mon, 31st May, 2010

Impossible joints! (see image)
(For some reason, I'm reminded of The Facts of Life theme song here. ;-)

Impossible joints! (<i>see image</i>) <br/>(For some reason, I'm reminded of The Facts of Life theme song here. ;-)
xenophilius
xenophilius Wed, 29th December, 2010

Why the heck hasn't aphoria commented on this?!
His avatar. Here's a question. Was this inspired by aphoria's avatar, or was aphoria's avatar inspired by this?
It's awesome. It's so 3d-ish! Amazing, to give the impression of 3d-ness by just filling in the shading. It reminds me of bevel fonts, such as this one.
Love it, thalamic.

xenophilius
xenophilius Wed, 5th January, 2011

Oh, aphoria's changed it. Nevermind.

BanjoZebra
BanjoZebra Sat, 21st May, 2011

Love it. 10.1/10.
Caps? Punctuation?