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Underground

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by Magic Sam


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If you want to create cool Letterings, try Underground! This was inspired by Pincoya Black Type by Daniel Hernandez. You can write letter by letter using the Uppercase or you can connect every character using the alternates. Please take a look at the example, then you´ll understand the idea! Lowercase are alternates of the same letter or a different letter. >=alt.B, <=alt.D, @=alt.T Underline:=+, Overline=*, Filter: 1,6.
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106 characters, 39 downloads
Created:
Thu, 3rd September, 5:34 PM 2009
Last Edit:
Fri, 11th September, 10:03 PM 2009
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Underground, Hip, Hop, Bold, Display, Sans, Game, Magic, Sam, Magicsam, Filter
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Discussion

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Fri, 4th September, 2009

cayo
cayo Fri, 4th September, 2009

Although it's clearly over the top.
It reminds me of Grand Theft Auto (no, i don't play it... anymore), but I didn't know about Pincoya. Inspiring indeed. Do you think similar diacritics might be possible with this one?

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Fri, 4th September, 2009

@Cayo: I don´t think so. But I found a different way to do the diacritics, hope you like it as well, see below ;-)

I just have a few problems with this Fontstruction, it seems to be impossible to adjust the letter width feature at 0. If I can´t fix this the font will need a bit of manual spacing...hm.

@Cayo: I don´t think so. But I found a different way to do the diacritics, hope you like it as well, see below ;-) <br/> <br/>I just have a few problems with this Fontstruction, it seems to be impossible to adjust the letter width feature at 0. If I can´t fix this the font will need a bit of manual spacing...hm.
cayo
cayo Fri, 4th September, 2009

Even though I like Pincoya's diacritics because of the inlaid positioning, yours add more funkiness to the style. dig it!

About Letter Width Tool:
I have had the same problem, even though you can type your input in the Filter Tool, in the LWT you can only use the sliders. Maybe it's something really simple like a true or false statement overlooked. I cross my finger on that one.

igorrossi
igorrossi Sat, 5th September, 2009

Nice work, I like the ligatures very much. But you might want to standardize the diacritics corners : some are round, others square.

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Sat, 5th September, 2009

@Igorrossi: That´s because some of them are accents (ú,í) and some just dots (ö,ä,i).

p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 5th September, 2009

Very strong and dramatic.

I noticed that some of the alternates seem to be misplaced ... U and K come to mind.

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Sat, 5th September, 2009

@p2pnut: You´re right about the alternates. I corrected them.

chavez ravine
chavez ravine Sat, 5th September, 2009

A really nice heavy and funky font. It's everyday harder to make a typeface that looks original, is natural. Then, you most to add some little smart thing on it, and you got it.

cayo
cayo Sun, 6th September, 2009

I just corrected letter width on one my FSions.
It works ok.

gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Mon, 7th September, 2009

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

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Tue, 8th September, 2009

@FS-Staff: Thanks! But there is one thing that makes me go crazy.
It seems possible to adjust the Letter Width Tool at 0 (LWT = vertical Baseline); in this case "Underground" would work properly. But everytime I save & quit the Fontstructor the LWT is back at one brick width. Argh!
I don´t know if this was intended to be so or if it´s a bug, but please change it!

@FS-Staff: Thanks! But there is one thing that makes me go crazy. <br/>It seems possible to adjust the Letter Width Tool at 0 (LWT = vertical Baseline); in this case "Underground" would work properly. But everytime I save & quit the Fontstructor the LWT is back at one brick width. Argh! <br/>I don´t know if this was intended to be so or if it´s a bug, but please change it!
gferreira_admin
gferreira_admin Tue, 8th September, 2009

Hi Magic Sam,
I just tested to make sure, and it works for me.
Maybe you have a non-zero global spacing value in Preview > Advanced > Spacing?
Do you have the same problem with other glyphs and other FontStructions?

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Tue, 8th September, 2009

@gustavo: That´s mysterious. I tried different browsers, different computers and different fontstructions, but it didn´t function.
However, you gave me an idea:
I changed the global spacing to -1 and then adjusted every single character by hand. It works! Yeah.

minimum
minimum Sun, 4th October, 2009

I love the way how letters overlap to form connected ligs. Extra niceness.