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This is a heavy slab serif inspired by similar contemporary typefaces, such as Akimoto, Bloque, Facebuster, Giza, Gravity, and Rotula. All capitals. Work in progress: diacritical marks, full set of punctuation, and more special characters will follow.
Esgaroth: or Lake-town; human settlement on the Long Lake from Tolkien's novel The Hobbit.
For some reason, my new fontstruction failed to appear on Live.
That is powerful slab serif.
To prevent people from downloading them before seting the license to "All Rights Reserved," set the default license to "All Rights Reserved so they dont try to download it on you.
Can be better with lowercase letters ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@Rob Meek: Thank you very much for the special mention. Needless to say, without the new Fontstructor features you have created, this font would have been unthinkable.
@Aeolien: Thank you very much for your comment and generous rating.
@brynda1231: There was only one download, and it was by me. I don't want to prevent people from downloading my fonts. It is merely a side effect of preventing free font sites (of junk fonts) to list my works at will.
There is not enough room for a decent lower case "s". Besides, people hardly use lower case letters of heavy slabs. Why the six hearts? Why not spades or diamonds?
Check out my other font Dwalin Stencil.
@Frodo7 Means "Love it."
why does "..." look like ",,,"
Check out my new font: Shadow.
@frodo7 The people i am talking about are those who own free font websites
@brynda1231: It was not the ellipsis, but two quotation marks one after another. I've just added the ellipsis (...) so as to avoid confusion. I also changed letter R: it is much more streamlined now. The original version is still visible in the demo picture.
I don't want to advertise my other works here, but it was you who suggested making a stencil version of Dwalin Bold. Remember? It turned out to be quite good. However, I don't expect it to be awarded a TP because it is considered a derivative work of Dwalin Bold, what is already a TP.
Last time a saw Shadow, it was only a few letters and space filling blocks. I'll have a look again.
You can also copy the capitals to lowercase and add accents, russian, and maybe even greek.
This is a design with a serious look and strong business importance. It reminds me of my grandfather who always created that impression.
@Frodo7 How did you make that image?
Maybe A Q like this
@Scriptoresque: I'm glad you like my work. It's interesting you recalled the strong business figure of your grandfather in association with this heavy slab serif.
Typefaces are letters dressed up in designer clothes. Each letter plays, like an actor, a part in a play: well, a character. And all characters come and go, and act together on a stage: on the paper, or screen. Naturally, as the letters appear - fully dressed in costumes according to their particular role - they are to evoke emotions, fond memories, and feelings in the reader's mind.
@brynda1231: As I wrote above, diacritical marks to support the extended Latin set are on my list. Cyrillic/Russian set would be the logical next step. I haven't seen many super heavy fonts supporting Cyrillic script. I'll sleep on it.
Demo picture: I used a wallpaper image with leaves as background. There are a plethora of beautiful images on the web with no strings attached. The text is set on 3 different layers: one for the text proper, and two for the quotation marks, respectively. I used Adobe Photoshop for the layers and optical kerning.
Q: I was quite content with my Q, but your version - I have to admit - looks better. I'm not sure I could build it with the nudging in place for overshoot.
—Really like this one. :) I actually prefer your original Q; then again, I'm very partial to the tilde-esque form of Q. I would maybe design the tail like the bottom half of "z"—if you want it connected, that is?
@frodo7 thanks. I hope to colpmete the greek set on mine
This is a defintely a work that can be called A Font.
The Q seems a little out of place though, just like it was already mentioned above. But you know better of course.
@architaraz: I'm working on the Q, but it's not easy. There is a complex application of the nudge function and custom made bricks there for overshoot. Attempts to introduce full bricks in normal position resulted in narrow gaps which I could only shift, but not eliminate.
If I could clone this I'd mirror the tail and level to the right edge, joining to the body to where the curve starts with a solid line. If you had a Lower Case set you could use that for any letters that change from the Upper Case original design letters.
Looking at the font in the site's preview I saw an interesting effect, it seems to show where you nudged?
@TCWhite: Thank you for sharing your candid view regarding the Q. As I wrote above, I was happy with my version. One important point I have to consider: The few heavy slab serifs are very similar. The letter Q is a good opportunity to distinguish my work from the others'. I have to avoid usual designs and make this letter different (but modest).
@La police de caractère: Thank you for your comment. Yes, the pixel view accidentally reveals all the nudging. A nuisance, but small price to pay for improved control over positioning bricks. As you can see, all the rounded glyphs have their tops and bottoms nudged vertically, as well as their sides, in a few cases, nudged horizontally.
What nice grayscale you can make using nudging!!
I see a lowercase C in the cent sign
Can you copy lowercase to capitals or capitals to lowercase
@brynda1231: Actually, that was the case before. I had to remove one set - the upper case - because the fontstruction grew too big, it no longer appeared in the preview window properly.
try dialating the size by .5 on each side, it will free up available brick space
your ç is missing accent
what a beautiful heavy wieght slab, well balanced, bravo it's great work
A lovable chunky slab serif!
Roses are red
Kids, stay in school.
I don't have enough time
to make fonts this cool.
The Q tail reminds me of Lucas de Groot's Thesis fonts
Happy New 2021 to you too, Maestro! ❤️
Happy New Year, Frodo! Thanks for posting! Your collective greetings with other FS veterans (along with beate, and emloyenique) gave me inspiration to release something to start off the new year. May 2021 bring creative empowerment to this community and a richness of typographic expansion from the depth and complexity of your fonts!
@ elmoyenique: Elmo, you've got a big heart; it can accommodate the whole FS community with room to spare. Congratulations to your impressive new works of 2020. May the new year even better for you with lots of stunning fonts from your workshop.
@ geneus1: I've got very little time to spend on FS in 2020. Let's hope the new year will be better. The pestilence ruined almost everything, and there is still no end in sight. I'll get the vaccine hopefully in two weeks. Gene, be extra cautious.
@ Frodo & Gene
I also send my best wishes for the New Year, whatever may happen: much joy, strength and courage. ✶Stay healthy! ✶
Beate
@beate: Thank you Beate, you are most kind.
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