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Is the render playing tricks on me or are there curves in nearly every letter, down to the tops and bottoms of stems like in "I"?
The curves exist.
And they are intentional.
Thanks for noticing.
You are missing zero. How are the curves possible?
A very nice stencil typeface with that special thalamic touch!
@Brynda: The curves are possible because this font is only two bricks tall, exploiting the potential of the curved bricks already present in the standard bricks set.
Also, thanks for the heads-up on the 0. I am pretty sure I added it earlier, but it disappeared somehow. Re-added.
@laynecom: Thanks so much. I am glad to learn that there is such a thing as the 'thalamic touch'.
It's very tricky, I suppose, all these additions of curves… well done!
If I had your skill with this trivial tool, I'd like to create a minimal font based on very thin and large circles (cf. the 'abc' logo, but a lot lighter)… any clue of feasibility (even a link on this place) for a 'box-minded' beginner?
How many unique bricks
@Brynda: Dunno. Many. Plus I cheated in places by using rotated/reflected bricks instead of creating new ones. Here is a sample image of My Bricks:
I'm in awe °˳° What a striking design! Creative vision, patience, familiarity of FontStruct's tools, and skill. Just °.° wowww . Congratulations on the well-earned TP :)
@dpla: If I think what you mean by the abc logo font (only thinner), here's my take on how to do it:
--Turn Expert Mode on
--Place the bricks in D1 D2 E1 E2 as shown
--Place the bricks in G1 G2 as shown
--Select bricks in G1 and G2 together
--Press Shift+G to group them into a single brick (which will give you the brick in H1 (brick 15 in MyBricks)
--Hold down Shift and click the newly created brick in MyBricks (which will pop-up a tiny dialog box on top of it which will contain all the original bricks used in the new brick)
--Click on the left brick to erase it (this will update the new brick to an even newer brick as shown in H2)
--Select this newest brick in MyBricks
--Press Shift+3 to activate Brick Stacking mode (the Draw tool should change to show it is in stack mode now)
--Click on the brick in D2 (which should combine the brick that is already in D2 with the brick currently selected in MyBricks resulting in the brick shown in D5--which will give you the required a)
--Press Shift+1 to go back to regular Draw tool
Upto 16 original bricks can be combined to form a single new brick. The shape of the new brick will depend upon how the original bricks were arranged before combining. Three additional examples of combining are shown in MyBrick.
It would help to experiment and figure things out on your own.
HTH
@Aeolien: Thank you for your gracious comment. Much appreciated.
@thamalic, you killed me! THANKS A LOT! (I'll give your tut' a try!)
How did you?
@Brynda: just a bitmap sketch, sorry: not fontstructed yet (but in the future hopefully, thanks to thalamic's advices)…
@everybody: free to create it/them for me :-)
PS of course the inspiration was the ABC 1966 logo (into two contrasted minimalist variants).
Would this make a good 3?
Composite in D?
About Brynda's suggestions ("3" and "S"), I'd stick with the original, more fanciful design… On the contrary (and out of curiosity), I'd like to see such rounded parts (terminals/finals/tails/serifs…) in characters like "ZMNV".
Do you still like my suggestions, dpla. The T?
@Brynda: actually, beyond the personal matter of taste, your suggestions yield more uniformity [it can be enjoyable], because they put some lines aside ("S3401…"). thalamic's elements (blocks?) being more numerous, the original glyphs look a little more complex to me. Again, the related consensuality might not have been thalamic's incentive here [which can be enjoyable, too]. You know more about fontstructing than me, so I'm sure your question about "D" and "T" are pertinent as well. :-)
"The T" mean Thalamic, dpla
@Brynda: ~OK (I still cannot quite understand “The T?”, while “Composite in D” seemed a technical -advanced- question(?)).
Accented letters?
Excellent work on those subtle curves.
Can we see inside?
@Thalamic Do you mind if I look inside?
@Brynda: Here are all the bricks used in outline mode so you can see how they were constructed.
Thanks, I can make some of these in fewer bricks...
Have you tried other spacing tools before kerning? (e.g. Nudging the letter to the left side)
@ Brynda: your turn now to offer your font and show the image of the outlines.
Again, thalamic has shown his skill, patience and understanding of FontStruct and his creative and knowledgeable mind, presenting something entirely new. 10/10 and fav.
Thank You So Much your way of editing helped me make my font. Please check it out if you are reading this.
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