Kapow

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Balanced Rating: 8.59
Average Rating: 8.66
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by Christian Munk (CMunk)

See also Kapow Plus Ultra by JOEY_TOYS_, Kapow Clone by DLyons123.

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I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands, which resulted in this font. The initial idea was to make a font inspired by the (handwritten?) signs in retail stores, but it quickly took a turn for the more comic.
Info:

Created on 7th June 2015. Last edited on 10th June 2015.
License:

Creative Commons
Categories:
- Script
- Display
Sets:
- Handwritten
Tag:

30 Comments

Brilliant.

Comment by thalamic 9th june 2015

Very nice.

Comment by briankmowery 9th june 2015

Impressive piece of work!

Comment by four 9th june 2015

Thank you! I changed the name to something suitable with more power. Kapow!

Comment by Christian Munk (CMunk) 9th june 2015

Wow. I'm amazed.

Comment by johnorics 10th june 2015

love it
your design is close to the CASUAL style in sign painting

Comment by Michel Troy ~UrbanPixel~ (Upixel) 10th june 2015

It sure looks like a lot of time and effort went into this. Excellent!

Comment by laynecom 10th june 2015

What a great bit of 'informal' design.

Comment by p2pnut 10th june 2015

Great stuff!

Comment by aphoria 10th june 2015

Here's to more time on your hands.

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 10th june 2015

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

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 10th june 2015

Comment by Christian Munk (CMunk) 10th june 2015

The more I see this design, the better it looks. This really is worth selling on MyFonts.

Comment by p2pnut 11th june 2015

This may be the most thoroughly fun font I've seen on Fontstruct -- or anywhere else. Excellent work!

Comment by John H. Isles (QXZ) 14th june 2015

Smooth!

Comment by V. Sarela (Yautja) 18th june 2015

It looks like handwriting, especially with the slight tilt you've added to the letters. The strokes look very natural. The whole font is very well designed. I agree with p2pnut: it is professional stuff. Once you've completed the character set you can sell it on MyFonts.com. 10/10

Comment by Frodo7 21st june 2015

Footnote: MyFonts.com no longer accepts fonts made on Fontstruct, unless further processing is done with professional tools to remove redundant anchor points, and to get proper kerning and OT features.

Comment by Frodo7 21st june 2015

Thank you all for the nice comments! I might want to try to sell this when I have a decent character set, so I have read up on the guidelines for submitting fonts to MyFonts.com. This font certainly does need kerning, so when I get around to doing that in some other software, I will probably try to sell a kerned Pro-version of this font.

Thanks again!

Comment by Christian Munk (CMunk) 21st june 2015

I *might* vectorize it if you give me time. I'm going to get Glyphs (full) so I can vectorize as accurate as possible. (Backgrounds are great tools.)

Comment by Evie Atarax (j4s13) 21st june 2015

Hey, Frodo7, thanks for that footnote about MyFonts... Good to know. It kind of makes sense, and allows them (and the font's author) to offer a better product.

Comment by SquarePeg 21st june 2015

KAPOW! Nice job, CMunk. And a great character set as well. Cheers!

Comment by SquarePeg 21st june 2015

Great Font! 10/10! One question though... Where are the numbers?! What happened to 1,2,4,5,6,7 and 9?

Comment by Jonathan224 30th june 2015

Great personality - lots of character and characters in this font. There is a rigidity or stiffness that is revealed by simply being a fontstruction, particularly with the curved letters, like O,G, and Q. Rounding out the shapes with subtle beziers in your font editor would make it even more friendlier. Well done!

Comment by geneus1 21st july 2015

Updates to the Fontstruct engine have made it possible to make composite bricks with up to 16 tiles. Might there be a possible update with a complete set of numbers? I'd really love to see what you have in mind for the remaining digits.

Comment by John H. Isles (QXZ) 9th july 2016

@JohnHIsles - There have been no updates to the live FontStructor yet. More complex composites is a possibility but not definite.

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 9th july 2016

My honest mistake. I played around with the HTML 5 version of the Fontstructor and noticed that's where the more complex composites could be made. I should have mentioned that beforehand.

Comment by John H. Isles (QXZ) 10th july 2016