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by aphoria
see also Solemn Bold by aphoria
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You learn FAST!. This is gorgeous.
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Hot damn.
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Classy
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@thalamic And from the best.
@intaglio and @p2pnut Your support is always very much appreciated.
I forgot to include the alternate M in the sample. It's on the ~.
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Simple, elegant, gorgeous. Is it possible to add other weight? 10/10
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Maybe try the 2 with a smaller head and a steeper angle. It it turns out narrower than the rest, so be it.
And seeing that the letters are wide anyway, the M could do with the 45degree angles. M is usually the second widest letter (W the widest...usually).
I love the serenity of the whole.
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I'm really amazed how smooth you made it look. Must've been a lot of work.
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Well done.
I don’t want to piss on your parade, but check out Museo.
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very serene and tranquil with some edge to it :)
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@sebastianberns Yeah, I'm very aware of Museo. After I had completed 8-9 characters, I could feel the similarity to Museo, even though I had not set out to imitate it. So, from that point forward, I was very careful to avoid looking at Museo.
After I finished, I looked at Museo and compared it to mine. While there are some obvious similarities, I feel the difference is plenty large and I'm not worried about it.
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@thalamic I've used your suggestions and made a few improvements.
Thanks for noticing the detail. I did spend a lot of time on this...my wife will attest to that! :)
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@aphoria RE: Museo. Hey, no sweat. I find it funny, that fontstructions sometimes happen to have similarities to existing fonts, without their creators knowing. And in this case, I was wondering if you knew.
Anyway, you did a good job there.
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@sebastianberns Sorry, I didn't mean to sound so defensive.
Thanks for the compliments.
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Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Solemn” is now a Top Pick.
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The 2 works better, methinks. Maybe try extending just the bottom bar out a brick to the right.
The new M is as I suggested, but I may have led you astray. Feels off somehow. Maybe use the same steeper angles a you did before but separate the verts and diags a bit. (See Fig1). It's just to illustrate and lacks the fineness of your design. Just to give you an idea of what I mean. I think the double-A M works best. You've really done well here. And no need to say you spent time on it; the time spent working out the details is apparent enough. Say "Hi" to Mrs. Aphoria.
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Kudos on the amount of character in this. Even with all of its simplicity, this font must have taken you a long time. Solemnis a very interesting font to me, being straitforward yet intriguing. But if I may ask you to do something for me, please work a little bit more on the "J" and "K". Other than that, this font is smashing!
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A correction of myself:
Kudos on the amount of characters in this. Even with all of its simplicity, this font must have taken you a long time. Solemn is a very interesting font to me, being straitforward yet intriguing at the same time. But if I may ask you to do something for me, please work a little bit more on the "J" and "K". Other than that, this font is smashing!
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This is beautiful, Aphoria.
The name goes pretty well to it, too.
m, 7, 8, 9, ? and the @ between my favorites.
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@aaaalllleeeexxxx The J is definitely not my fave, but I think the K works well. Do you have any specific recommendations?
@cayo Thank you, much appreciated. I am pretty happy with m and @ too. I am really pleased with the c and C too. They are the first c's I've done that aren't symmetrical...or just o's with the right side cut open.
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@gferreira Oops...I meant to say this last night...Thanks for the Top Pick, always appreciated.
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Great work on this one Aphoria!
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Tweaked the J a little bit.
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Updated a few characters and added a few new ones.
Updated: M J
Added: : ; / \ ' " “ ” ‘ ’ &
Removed: Alternate 2 and one of the alternate M's.
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Introducing...Solemn Bold
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