Halfade

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by zephram
See also Fullade by Cookielord, Halfade Black by zephram.

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When life gives you halflemons, make Halfade!

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This is what I call a Plain Spurless design. There are no actual spurs, only right-angled corners to suggest spurs. All lowercase letters are like this except r, which is a Rounded Spurless because it needs to curve to avoid looking like Γ, and because it's only 2 bricks wide so there's no other place for it to curve.

I made this to have mostly right angles, to have a condensed look (see filrt), and to be good for speedreading. My own experiments in speedreading favored glyphs with simple curves which don't terminate in small arcs (see CGJSZfgjrsyz@()[]{}). There are exceptions (c2369?$) because these are more recognizeable when they have such arcs. Additionally, glyphs such as BPRXY have slightly rounded counters near the vertical center, which enhanced their readability without causing them to look out of place.

The remainder of design considerations were things which are fairly idiosyncratic and unlikely to be discovered by others. For instance, the descender of Q is 2 bricks, while lowercase letters' descenders are 3 bricks and symbols' descenders are 1 brick. This is the result of a technique that attempts to visually codify different cases & types of glyphs. The slightly different contours thus formed by each word on its underside seem to enhance both readability and aesthetics.

8 Comments

Comment by zephram 10th january 2019

When life gives you quarterlemons, make Quarterade...

Comment by anonymous-1520403 11th january 2019

Have you thought of making a solidly filled version of this? Halfade looks pretty even when it's Fullade :)

Comment by Cookielord 11th january 2019

Here's my vision of Fullade.

Comment by Cookielord 11th january 2019

Will there be plans for a version with the inverse shading?

Comment by anonymous-1520403 12th january 2019

Yes, I have plans for that along with a few other variations, such as one with a more textured halftone look wherein each halftone size breaks the grid by extending into its neighbors a bit. I'm not sure when I will act on these plans, though.

Comment by zephram 12th january 2019

wow!

Comment by eyecone 13th january 2019

Fabulous fading effect

Comment by Aeolien 28th january 2019

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