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Scrambled Script

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by shasta


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Description:
Little experiment of mine, trying to design a script font that really connects all the letters. As you might guess from the quality of the uppercase, I started with lowercase and had quite some trouble finishing the uppercase... And I know there are (obviously) always the connection strokes peaking out at the end any word, but funnily this imperfect look has started to grow on me during the fontstructing.

I also know there are still lots and lots of inconsistencies and letters that badly need a rework, but I thought the constructive criticism of my fellow fonstructors might be more helpful and efficient at improving this... So I'm grateful for any suggestions!:)

Oh, and yes: The kerning is very painful at times, but I can't see how I can improve that under the constraints of the script and the character forms. And obviously the script thing doesn't work with uppercase only text.
Stats:
55 characters, 33 downloads
Created:
Thu, 24th June, 11:38 AM 2010
Last Edit:
Mon, 5th July, 6:38 PM 2010
Permalink:
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/342823
Tags:
Script, Calligraphy, Connected, Blackletter, Ink
Categories:
Blackletter, Script
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Discussion

Upixel
Upixel Mon, 5th July, 2010

Ho la la la la !
what a neat and beautiful font

I felt in love with it right away. Bravo!

Upixel
Upixel Mon, 5th July, 2010

T'es vraiment fort Shasta!

From my point of view, Kerning with only Uppercase is not a problem. Many Pro font have the same approach with Fancy Script Uppercase

djnippa
djnippa Mon, 5th July, 2010

Really sweet and professional looking font. 10/10.

Neoqueto
Neoqueto Tue, 6th July, 2010

I can't believe it's still script. It's serif - but sans, it's gothic - but script. 10 stars and fav.

afrojet
afrojet Wed, 7th July, 2010

Wow. A blackletter script. Now there's something you don't see everyday. I like the tension inherit in the forms as they struggle to find balance between modularity and fluidity. Nice job.

afrojet
afrojet Wed, 7th July, 2010

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

Em42
Em42 Wed, 7th July, 2010

Great achievement in adding some playfulness to a blackletter font!

The only weak point I can detect is the linking in the F, P and Y letters: I know it's a tricky issue myself in modular connected script font, but using a fake bezier curve is like surrendering to the challenge.

p2pnut
p2pnut Wed, 7th July, 2010

Such an excellent result ... a very successful experiment indeed! 10/10

catherineilacy
catherineilacy Mon, 7th May, 2012

I love this font! It is absolutely amazing. May I suggest, however, that you add more punctuation? Personally I feel that it's a bit of a shame that you don't have an exclamation mark, question mark, semicolon, colon, apostrophes and all those other lovely things in there.