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by intaglio


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2x2 schemes are all very well but they magnify the spacing issues x2 as well. Along with the usual "f"ing question it comes unstuck where I've added half-width bricks at the start or end of a glyph. Oh well. Trouble is my middle name.
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55 characters, 176 downloads
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Wed, 29th April, 3:49 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Wed, 24th June, 2:22 AM 2009
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aphoria
aphoria Thu, 30th April, 2009

Love the W.


meek
meek Thu, 30th April, 2009

Looks great at pixel resolution. Having visited Timaru a few years back I'm intrigued by your choice of name.


intaglio
intaglio Thu, 30th April, 2009

No special significance -- I'm just a magpie for beautiful words.


jimhv
jimhv Fri, 1st May, 2009

I'm eager to see what the numbers and other symbols look like!


geneus1
geneus1 Fri, 1st May, 2009

Simple and smooth, intaglio. Can you elaborate on the spacing issues? I believe spacing at 2x2 is better than the standard setting.


intaglio
intaglio Fri, 1st May, 2009

@jimhv: I'm not very good at completing the whole character set. I haven't managed to sustain the interest for many of my fonts, getting discouraged or losing patience.

That's why I use the "open slather" licensing scheme so anyone who gets fed-up waiting for me to finish can extend the set him/herself. (If anyone cares that much!)

I will do the numerals and punctuation at least, though. But just now I've been seduced by another font I've started work on. It happens a lot...

@geneus1: I don't know. I see other people's designs that are economical and they don't seem to have the issues I have. I'm going down the garden to eat worms.

I had sworn off doing gigantic 'Structions but I've come to the conclusion I seem able to execute things better on a big (1x1) scale. The one I'm working on at the moment is a pain because it's so big but everything works better for me. It looks great at whatever size I view it at and the spacing is a lot finer.

I guess it's just personal preference. I admire the designs I see that are economical and beautiful too, but I'm not so crash-hot at them myself!


Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Tue, 12th May, 2009

Excellent! Very readable at smal sizes...
One of the things I admire from you is your so different approach from others 'fontstructors'
Fresh and stimulating!


intaglio
intaglio Fri, 22nd May, 2009

Thanks, Alex! It's taking me a while to get back to the site because my home computer is dead. Sniff...