THIS SAMPLE FEATURES ALL OF THE SUPPORTED LANGUAGES.

SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS FONT AND THE ONE THAT IT WAS CLONED FROM.

BACKGROUND IMAGE FROM KNIGHT RIDER.

A RUSSIAN PANGRAM (CONTAINS EVERY LETTER IN THE ALPHABET) THAT I CAME UP WITH. IT MEANS: “THE MAGGOT JUDGED THE GYPSIES AT THE AIRPORT MEASURING THE VOLUME OF THE FUSELAGE WITH A POTATO.”

CHALLENGE: EVERYBODY HAS THEIR OWN GRAPHICAL STYLE. WHATEVER YOUR STYLE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT! MAKE A SAMPLE WITH THIS FONT TO TEST OUT ITS VERSATILITY!

@Rob Meek (meek)

Haha I just hate lower-case letters. In my mind, there’s no reason for them. And I like the look and consistency of capitals better, hence this font. You might think that it’s harder to read body text that’s all in capitals, but that’s only because we’re accustomed to lower case — something that can easily be changed over time. Since this is my own font on my own page, I thought that I’d have every right to use capitals if I wanted to! Of course when talking to others, I don’t want to offend them, so I use lower case.

@Rob Meek (meek)

Also, have you considered adding kerning classes to FontStruct? I spent four entire days literally nonstop kerning this.

Edit: And my family probably think that I’m insane now.

@JingYo

Thank you, спасибо, gracias, and 谢谢.

@BWM

Thanx. The scripts are only kerned to themselves. The punctuation is also kerned to itself and every script. Still there are discrepancies. It happens on every font that I do kerning for, that’s why I don’t normally do it. I even test it in a font programme, and there’s just no data for the pairs that I’ve noticed.

I’m not too concerned about it, though. I have every faith in the FontStruct team to fix it at some point. All of the proper kerning data is still stored in the FontStruct editor.

@Merrybot

Thank you very much. Yeah, the text markup is currently broken. I think that it’s been like that since Rob filtered JavaScript injections out due to my Rickroll.

@BWM

I don’t know of any languages that have a reversed “K”! I’d probably go for number one, though.

OTHER FONTS WITH THIS “K”

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1704198/woodend
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1702090/whakaiti
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1702314/motu-2
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1627619/zntrog
https://www.parallax.net.nz/#fonts/myHandwriting.html

@Merrybot

I’m not sure what you mean. I don’t think that weight has anything to do with how much kerning is involved. Be assured, there is A LOT of kerning. I have an unusual view of spacing — I think that no matter what, the left extremity of the letter should always touch the “LEFT” line, and the “WIDTH” line should always touch the right extremity. I do this so that it displays properly on web pages, and bits don’t get cut off — or the opposite: Too much gap before the first letter. I’m sure that you can see how much kerning is then involved when a letter like “Δ is spaced according to its diacritic.

@Dmitriy Sychiov (Sychoff)

I have to disagree with you there. I primarily write in capitals; Lower-case letters therefore take me much longer to write out on paper. You know, the reason why I started learning Russian in the first place was through making fonts on FontStruct — it’s where I got introduced to the Cyrillic script (кроме логотипа «Аэрофлот» — каждый знает его)). I really like how a lot of the lower-case letters are the same as the capitals. The designers shouldn’t be envious; In my opinion, they have a stylistic advantage.

Про «Б»: ты говоришь о вершине? Я просто хотел, чтобы она была такой же длины, как и вершина «Г».

Мне нравится твоё clone. Пожалуйста продолжай с ним; я от FontStruct отдыхаю.

@Merrybot

Ah, I see. I think that the font would need to be about double the size on the grid for the kerning to become ineffective. As you can see with: “AW”, this font has quite exaggerated kerning, even with its large size.

UPDATE

• ADDED GERMAN AND ITALIAN SUPPORT.

• COMPLETED BULGARIAN AND MACEDONIAN SUPPORT.

• KERNED “L” TO “U” (AND ALL OF THEIR DERIVATIVES).

@Merrybot

Thanx for the chart. I actually found these very useful while making this font (although they didn’t include “Ѐ” and “Ѝ” for Macedonian and Bulgarian).

I know that French is a very popular language (I studied it for two years), but I don’t really want to include it in this font. I’m not trying to insult anyone, but I just don’t like the way it looks — the same goes for Polish, the last major Slavic language that I haven’t supported. Sorry to disappoint you.

@Merrybot

I know. But ever since I find out about that one word it was bugging me that I didn’t include the simple alteration. It’s not the actual drawing of the letter that’s the problem, it’s kerning it consistently with everything else that’s already been kerned. That’s why I think that adding kerning classes to FontStruct would be a good idea; “Ѝ” could just be added to the same group that other letters are already kerned to (such would include: “И”, “Е”, “М”, etc.).

@Merrybot

Instead of kerning individual letters to each other, you kern groups, or classes, of letters to each other. So “V” and “W” would be in the same class, because their sides are the same shape, so they fit with the same letters identically. Does that make sense? “K” and “X” could perhaps be in the same class for their right side. “C”, “G”, “O”, and “Q” could be in the same class for their left side — because the shapes are the same. But most importantly, accented characters can be in the same class as the fundamental letter.

@Merrybot

Well, the way I do it, those letters will pretty much always be a pain, yes ;)

@BWM @Merrybot

On it.

@Merrybot

Thank you. I’ll finish them in a couple of days time.

UPDATE

ADDED “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “?”, “!”, “;”, “*”, AND “•”. STILL NOT KERNED YET.

@BWM @Merrybot

Correct. I nudged most of the round parts and accents. I feel so exposed.

This doesn’t affect the download.

UPDATE

• KERNED ALL THE NEW PUNCTUATION.

• ADDED THE FULL NUMBERBET.

@Merrybot

Yeah! I’m not happy with some of the numerals though, and it still needs kerning.

@Merrybot

NUMBERBET

[ˈnɐmbɐbitʰ]
Noun

A collection of numerals, typically arranged from lowest to highest value.

Derivatives: “Numberbetical”, “numberbetically”, “numberbetinate”, “numberbetination”

See also: “Alphabet”, “colourbet”, “shapabet”

@Merrybot

I made it up! :D

And the “i” is equivalent to “ɛ” in most dialects.

@BWM

“Dictionary”? Don’t you mean: “wordabet”?!

@Merrybot

Yeah it does for your accent. But in New Zealand the letter “e” makes an I.P.A. “i” sound. I feel like I’ve told you that before.

So basically, we pronounce: “set” how you’d pronounce: “seat”.

UPDATE

FINISHED KERNING THE LAST OF THE 39204 PAIRS BY HAND. PHEW! THAT’S SOMETHING THAT I NEVER WANT TO REPEAT. WORDS CAN’T DESCRIBE THE PAIN I’M IN.

@elmoyenique

Sorry, no more languages. It takes a considerable amount of kerning for even one character. You’re free to clone it and add to it yourself, though.

@BWM @Merrybot

Keep in mind that while I did examine 39 204 pairs, not all of them were kerned to a nonzero value.

@Merrybot

I did think about that, but you can just type out: “SS”.

Thank you. My fifth ever Top Pick! I can still remember my first, where I said: “I don't really know what [diacritics are] for”. Now that I’ve been using FontStruct for three years, I know only too well. Still, that’s nothing compared to the decade that users with the likes of “elmoyenique” and “Frodo7” have spent here!

@Goatmeal

Thank you.

@Goatmeal

Oh, I should have included you in my comment above too!

By the way, I’ve always admired your profile picture.

@Hensley Dodson (Hensilly)

I didn’t have much choice! ;)

Nah I’m fine with it.

I used this font in my latest video: https://youtu.be/00hpriGwefc

@V. Sarela (Yautja)

@Piotrkowy

Heh, thanx.

@Hensley Dodson (Hensilly)

Woohoo

The exclamation mark is fine how it is. They are inherently supposed to be expressive. I gave it a slant to exaggerate that.

@Hensley Dodson (Hensilly)

Right. Thanks for that.

I.P.A. is the only true transliteration!

[xɐˈroʂɨj ʂrʲift no vəsklʲɪˈt͡satʲɪlʲnɨj znak ˈmoʐnə ˈbɨɫə bɨ ˈzʲdʲeɫətʲ ˈmʲenʲɪje nɐˈkɫonːɨm]