Disco Bling

Share:
by zephram

Download disabled

The designer of this FontStruction has chosen not to make it available for download from this website by choosing an “All Rights Reserved" license.

Please respect their decision and desist from requesting license changes in the comments.

If you would like to use the FontStruction for a specific project, you may be able to contact the designer directly about obtaining a license.

Version 1.3: Added Polish.

* $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ 

Another simple experiment with composites, this time trying to make a font which can easily accomplish a "diamond encrusted" or "disco floor" style effect within my graphics software.

SPOILER: I succeeded. :D

* $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ * $ * £ * ¢ * ¥ 

18 Comments

Comment by zephram 30th april 2018

well done

Comment by JingYo 30th april 2018

I wonder if the diagonal bars of the XYK> and < could be made a little wider. They seem narrower than the rest of the font. Love it otherwise.

Comment by jonrgrover 30th april 2018

Thanks, @JingYo & @jonrgrover! I agree. I wondered for a while how exactly to change them, and just now it occurred to me. The affected letters were updated. :^)

Every letter was reworked to ensure a solid 1-smaller-diamond-thick line runs through the interior of each. Added a lot of symbols, as well...

Comment by zephram 30th april 2018

Making text like this used to be a 40-step process in Photoshop. Now it's a 40-second process! :^)

Comment by zephram 30th april 2018

I noticed some glitches in the downloaded font. When I fixed them in the editor and saved, the font became corrupted. It looks fine on the site, but the downloaded font is now unusable.

Comment by zephram 1st may 2018

Also, no changes to the design are saved when I hit "save". No idea what happened. (EDIT: These issues are now understood and have been mitigated.)

Comment by zephram 1st may 2018

Great design. I'm looking into the download issues.

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 1st may 2018

I think, with your unusual design including lots of shapes which just touch each other at a single point, you may have stumbled upon a bug in our software which joins up all the bricks into larger connected shapes (it’s called the FontMortar). If you set the horizontal and vertical brick size to 0.99 the download is likely to work (It does for me on a clone).

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 1st may 2018

Yes, this solved the issue right away. The change seems to have persisted as well (I refreshed the page and downloaded again, and got the current fixed version.)

Thanks for looking into it and for the info! This font now functions perfectly for every glyph.

Comment by zephram 1st may 2018
Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Disco Bling” is now a Top Pick.
Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 1st may 2018

Thanks so much for the top pick!

Here's a simple tutorial for getting the blingtext look.

Comment by zephram 1st may 2018

Wow! Nice!

Comment by Wataru (Wataru Aiso) 1st may 2018

Thank you, Wataru. :D

I have added lowercase...

Comment by zephram 1st may 2018

Do you think this 7 would be a great alternate...

Comment by anonymous-1520403 1st may 2018

Meant this one...

Comment by anonymous-1520403 1st may 2018

That first one is most in keeping with the style. I'm gonna modify that design a bit to make the new 7. Thanks for the suggestion. :^)

Comment by zephram 1st may 2018

Another interesting effect which uses the blingtext technique. It reminds me of something Aztec-related! (I had to crop the sample to this size in order to show the detail...)

Comment by zephram 1st may 2018

Also of Interest

GlyphsApp

Get the world’s leading font editor for OSX.

More from the Gallery

Phontby zephram
Xenobastardby zephram
FontStruct Idea Soupby zephram
Rykrosby zephram
Dawn Chorusby four
STF_DOBINI BALWAUMby Sed4tives
STF_VOLLE BUISJESby Sed4tives
swallow tailby tortoiseshell

From the Blog

News

Gridfolk: Interview with Zephram

News

Heavy Competition Results

News

Heavy Competition

News

Gridfolk: Interview with Jiri Novak