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Mandrill

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by Elementalist
cloned from Monkey by Elementalist
see also SlackBauer by Elementalist, and Zodiac Square by Elementalist


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Description:
This is another clone of Monkey (my monospace lanky font); it should be very similar to the original except for the lower x-height and the added accented characters (More Latin/Latin-1, Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B, and now Even More Latin/Latin Extended Additional). It is 16 blocks tall and 6 blocks wide; all letters without diacritics are at most 9 above the baseline and at most 3 below, but the accents push the height of a letter up by 3 blocks (or rarely 4), and the box drawing characters extend even higher, to 16 blocks from descender to the highest point. This font uses the FontStruct 2x2 filter method with plenty of composite and stacked bricks, which lets the curves look good at large sizes while remaining sharp on the screen at normal sizes. Mandrill will look strange in the FontStruct preview if you zoom in or out, but if you download it, it will look sharp at size 16 or 12 (depending on the program).
Stats:
951 characters, 33 downloads
Created:
Thu, 1st March, 3:02 AM 2012
Last Edit:
Sun, 2nd September, 11:26 AM 2012
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Elementalist
Elementalist Tue, 10th July, 2012

Big update 7/10/2012; all Latin Extended-B characters are here now. Fitting them into a width of at most 6 pixels was challenging, and it shows on a few of the more ridiculous glyphs (Do we really need DZ as one glyph? Maybe the monospacing justifies it, though the widest glyphs still have no gap between them and the next one.). I am fairly proud of the curls on some of these though. Feel free to clone and see for yourself!


Elementalist
Elementalist Tue, 10th July, 2012

And here's a sample with some of the new glyphs.
Photo credit to RayMorris1, here http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidyo/5650726065/

And here's a sample with some of the new glyphs.
<br/>Photo credit to RayMorris1, here http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidyo/5650726065/

graspee
graspee Tue, 10th July, 2012

I like this font. I shall use it in my game: "Pangolin Kwest".

My thanks to you, good sir.


Elementalist
Elementalist Fri, 20th July, 2012

Here's a revised sample just to show off Polish and Vietnamese language support. Same photo, same credit as before. UPDATE: Hooks over Vietnamese letters now look less like grave accents.

Here's a revised sample just to show off Polish and Vietnamese language support.  Same photo, same credit as before. UPDATE: Hooks over Vietnamese letters now look less like grave accents.

regular_one
regular_one Fri, 20th July, 2012

love this raw beauty! 10


meek
meek Thu, 4th April, 8:43 AM

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


Elementalist
Elementalist Thu, 4th April, 9:46 PM

Hooray, a Top Pick! I've been using Mandrill more often this year than during 2012 (when I worked on it), and I have noticed that I have really gotten used to some of the properties of the font. If you only use ASCII, it pretty much has a higher line-height and some squashed lower-case letters ('s' is a little weird, but I don't notice it in prose anymore). The nice thing is that most of the other Latin-something glyphs blend smoothly with the ASCII; Icelandic users might appreciate having a narrow monospaced font with an æ that is still legible at size 12, I think most Eastern European languages can use this, and Vietnamese... well it looks really good at size 24/32 (depending on the program), and the hook above diacritic looks like the logical not sign '¬' at size 12/16. Still, I am fairly sure that a Vietnamese-proficient reader with sharp enough vision and a screen that doesn't shrink pixels (Retina displays might be good or bad at this) could adapt to the 2-3-pixel difference between 'ỏ' and 'ó', but I need to confirm this with someone who can read the language. I learned a lot working on Mandrill, and I hope someone finds it useful -- for Vietnamese, Swedish, Croatian or English!


Aeolien
Aeolien Thu, 4th April, 10:29 PM

Congratulations for the TP! Nice font, legible, modern, and very useful :)