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Nice one GM! A lot of effort and a successful outcome ... what more can you ask for? 10/10
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@p2pnut - As always, thanks for the kind words! Just having fun here, playing with my blocks... :^)
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Various inspirations from the following...
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"BlockOut" by Laynecom
"Cubeology" by Frodo7
"Dutch" by Igorrossi
"fs Cubed" by Minimum
"FS Hommage à Frodo7 Sh" by Tylo
"Hommage à Escher" by Frodo7
"HyperLynk" by Geneus1
"Soma" by Funk_King
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This is huge. A font made of small cubes which are composed of pixels. 10/10
Have you tried the Voxelart Project? http://voxelart.ru/
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@thalamic -- What a terrific use of "old" pixels! Thanks for sending the website along.
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@Frodo7 -- Thank you for the kind words, and for the website. I had never heard of the term "Voxels", but after doing some reading about them, they are quite fascinating.
I originally designed a set of three small, non-pixelized blocks as a template. However, the small template size caused the top block pattern to "overwrite" parts of the adjoining blocks. This would have forced a tremendous amount of "touch ups" for each glyph, and make the "copy-and-paste" of the pattern too cumbersome. In the end, making them out of pixles was found to be the most efficient.
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Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Qbet” is now a Top Pick.
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@meek - Thanks, Rob! As always, 'tis a great honor.
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This lively FontStruction downloads well enough, but I am having the strange experience where it will not load in any of the preview widgets. Can you see it on your end, GM?
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That’s funny; must have been a flash glitch on my end. As soon as I posted that comment, the preview widget loaded this one just fine! :-)
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It wasn’t only on your side, Will, I had the same glitch.
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Hmm, most intriguing. I do have a surprising amount of plug-in crashes involving flash, Safari 5.1.1, and a MacBook Pro. But this was something else entirely.
Still, I think it is time for me to migrate back to Firefox – to compare flash stability, to increase privacy options, and to support open-source!
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I've just moved from Firefox to Safari because of Firefox running slow, draining memory, and constantly crashing.
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@djinippa: Aye! That’s a pretty strong argument against Firefox. I assume you were using the most up-to-date official release (8.0.1 looks to be current) as opposed to a beta or release candidate.
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@will.i.ૐ - Looks OK on my side, and I'm using FireFox.
Granted, it's the IBM-clone version; FontStruct and Videos/YouTube seem to work much better (and faster) with FireFox than IE... :^)
(Hope I didn't break your Interwebz with this font! There are so many other, vastly more complex FontStructs out there that I would imagine would cause much worse loading problems; perhaps it's just the occasional FS Server hiccup?)
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@GM: Loads pretty quickly for me now. I can’t explain why the server might hang. It was not working (for me and riccard0 it seems) for days, coming up as “done loading” but with a blank glyph-space. And then as soon as I commented, it refreshed – good as new. I was starting to miss your design! :-)
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re: Browsers. I have been using Avant for more than 10 years. It is free, stable, fast, resources light, very customisable. I am able to trim down the space taken up by bars (at the top) so that I have the maximum useable area on my monitor (see image). It also has a handy feature that I have yet to find on any of the other browsers (and I have tried most). To navigate between pages you can use the mouse ... hold right-click and hit left to go backwards and vice-versa to go forwards. No more having to move up to those pesky arrows at the top of the browser :)
I have no connection with Avant - just think it is the bees knees amongst browsers.
Hope you don't mind me using your comments page GM (I have already commented on the design above - and I still think it is great).
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@ Will. Yes, I'm on 8.01. Using Snow Leopard, although neither of them would let me Preview a font yesterday. Without crashing with Flash problems (latest version is installed). It had all lost all of the alterations I had made. Very frustrating. I now Save before previewing. I'm sure it's just an update problem, that will hopefully be resolved. Stability is the key.
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Wishing to find in a character the symbol of the litle man of that old game!!!
If not... DESIGN IT, RIGHT NOW, AND UPDATE THE FONT!!! PLEASE!!!
Great yet nostalgic font
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@dagaherz -- Already done. Please see letters Q, R & S from my video game dingbat font, "The 1st Six Yrs 1of6"
The 1st Six Yrs 1of6
There are 5 other fonts in the complete set of 6, all full of video gaming goodness!
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Aaaah, a font fit for a Video Game addict like me! Very nicely done!
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@jphturtle - Thanks for the kind words. This one was a lot of fun to work on -- once I figured out exactly HOW to make it a reality! :^)
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Nice job! As a big fan of cube/retro/pixel fonts, i give you a 10/10!
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@winty5 - Thanks for the kind words!
