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by Axel Leyer


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128 characters, 309 downloads
Created:
Mon, 6th October, 6:40 AM 2008
Last Edit:
Wed, 24th June, 2:47 AM 2009
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Discussion

aphoria
aphoria Thu, 7th May, 2009

Great stuff. I really love the lowercase...m, n, u, and x are great.


Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Fri, 8th May, 2009


aphoria
aphoria Fri, 8th May, 2009

The word "minimum" in your sample makes me weak in the knees.


kix
kix Fri, 8th May, 2009

maybe the cleanest blackletter so far... coolio


minimum
minimum Fri, 8th May, 2009

Me too. ;)


minimum
minimum Fri, 8th May, 2009

10/10 from me.


minimum
minimum Fri, 8th May, 2009

While I totally agree with the 10/10 comment (Great work, Axel :), I did not post the comment directly above. It's some glitch, in the FontStruct back end (a true Ghost in the Machine).

I only say this now because the comment directly above is nice, but someday some nasty comment may be mis-labeled as coming from me. Let me state this for posterity that no matter what happens, I, minimum, will never say anything bad about anyone's creative output and hard work.


djnippa
djnippa Sat, 9th May, 2009

Really slick stuff. 10/10


emepar7
emepar7 Sun, 10th May, 2009

I agree with kix...this is as clean as it gets!


cayo
cayo Mon, 11th May, 2009

impressive!


Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Tue, 12th May, 2009

Thanks to all!


dada
dada Tue, 12th May, 2009

cool!


eskema
eskema Wed, 13th May, 2009

Wow. really good. some characters still need some fine tuning but the overall is impressive.
Nice work


thalamic
thalamic Wed, 13th May, 2009

Mmm, mmm good. :)


geneus1
geneus1 Wed, 13th May, 2009

Cleeeean. A very friendly blackletter.


CMunk
CMunk Thu, 14th May, 2009

I like it very much. Especially the diacritics.


funk_king
funk_king Fri, 15th May, 2009

an instant classic :)


thalamic
thalamic Thu, 21st May, 2009

Since there's no other place to ask it, I'll ask it here in the comments of the top rated font: Who created the fontstruct logo? What's the story behind it?


nuovo
nuovo Tue, 26th May, 2009

I like this font a lot at the very moment I laid my eyes on it. It looks classy and poetic. Perfect old-fashioned style.


djnippa
djnippa Wed, 3rd June, 2009

On using this font the kerning/spacing really needs addressing. It isn't constant between letters.


Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Thu, 4th June, 2009

@ djnippa: "Yes... You're right, it needs a better kerning/spacing...but there's not much possibilities in this range with the fontstruct tools...
Problems come when putting toghether two round letters combination like: oc,bd,pq...
Neither solution I've tried was ok, so I've choose the one that affect less glyphs combinations.

Any recomendations & ideas about this issue are welcome!
Meanwhile, the people who want to use this font are going to need making some adjustments on it.




sdaris
sdaris Tue, 26th January, 2010

Jesus, Mary!


nadaeyup
nadaeyup Tue, 16th March, 2010

Gooood~!!


grandmajeanb
grandmajeanb Fri, 9th July, 2010

Hello, Axel. I just found this site and it's terrific! I really like this font. Regarding the kerning problems. I used to do calligraphy by hand. One of the things that hand done calligraphy has that computer fonts don't, is that there is always some tiny variation no matter how well done it is. Even on the very old typesets, there was variation. I guess what I am trying to say is that while exact spacing is necessary for many works, sometimes you need fonts that have that little variation, so that it looks more handmade which lends its own special charm to a work. Anyway, it's beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.


xenophilius
xenophilius Wed, 23rd February, 2011

THE CLEANEST EFFING BLACK LETTER IN THE UNIVERSE.
This font is REALLY good. REALLY good. I don't believe it! 48579104658613490561394569315/10!
@thal: Well, who created the website? I'd wager Rob Meek created it.


Drgrit
Drgrit Wed, 23rd February, 2011

I think its scary when you can see [strike]1[/strike] 0 MISTAKES!

UBER DUBER FONT!


xenophilius
xenophilius Fri, 11th November, 2011

Goodness gracious. I really freaked out. Feel free to hide my madness if you want.