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I have several 'knockout' fonstructions including one that is similar to Gaga, except the height my uppercase S is equal to the height of of your lowercase s. This forced a different methodology of dealing with the merging of the arm and leg joints as seen on your K, because it revealed a brick limitation. It is interesting how you used the limitation on the B, K, R, and k to create functional design elements. I'll have to post a sample to show you what I mean on mine. Great exploration here and in the stencil version.
The only ones that I'm unsure about are the B, K, R, and k. Something about the splits in the middle doesn't feel quite right.
And, I read the 8 as a 0 at first.
This technique offers a lot of possibilities/variations. I'd love to see where it took you. Post some samples.
I really appreciate your critique @aphoria. I think the goal of The Gaga font series is to focus this technique towards building a true geometric monoline font with no compromises (or, should I say no contrast?). For good or ill, the B, K, & R are the by-product of that 'no compromise' position (and Fontstruct limitations) and yet, ultimately, my hope would be that it's that very limitation that injects some personality into this font.
I suppose what we would need to connect all these arms and legs would be the reverse of these bricks.
Oh and here's the link:
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/pluto_1
and also a sample
I'm liking your Illustrator idea. Once you've inverted the cuts in Illustrator you can then take the positive glyphs and copy them into FontLab. Here's a video tutorial for creating and importing illustrator glyphs into Fontlab.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOTLwmmrv8s
Maybe one day a future version of Fontstruct will make it possible to build a font in reverse, and then, with the click of a button, create a positive version.
@afrojet: Congrats on the great
Love the brick idea. Do you think it would be possible to make elegant joins with those bricks using 2X2 filtering?
Definitely those curves would be possible. Believe it or not, I already have several fonts sketched out using these non-existent bricks.
He who squawks loudest. Now about that mythical between angle brick....
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