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Well, apparently everybody here likes building letters... And I'm sure everybody got told at least once to finally shut down that damn computer while fontstructing.
Here's how you can go on tinkering fonts even with the computer unplugged!;)
I had carried this idea around with me a long time ago, doing some sketches, but abandoning it cause I thought all the thin and dotted lines would go beyond fontstruct's possibilities. Until funk_king proved me wrong... Thanks for the re-inspiration!
I think this is pretty self-explaining. Cut along the solid lines, fold along the dotted lines and put some glue on the shaded parts, put it all together, and there you go with your new toys!
Unfortunately it was impossible to fill all the inner sides of all the counters, but I tried to leave them open where you'd see it least. There might also be some bugs, I haven't tried them out yet. Pure brainwork so far... (My brain's still in the freezer to cool down a bit) In case someone ever actually uses them and finds something wrong, please let me know!
Hope you like it!:)
Check out the fill font if you wanna print your own custom-made design on the letters!
I had carried this idea around with me a long time ago, doing some sketches, but abandoning it cause I thought all the thin and dotted lines would go beyond fontstruct's possibilities. Until funk_king proved me wrong... Thanks for the re-inspiration!
I think this is pretty self-explaining. Cut along the solid lines, fold along the dotted lines and put some glue on the shaded parts, put it all together, and there you go with your new toys!
Unfortunately it was impossible to fill all the inner sides of all the counters, but I tried to leave them open where you'd see it least. There might also be some bugs, I haven't tried them out yet. Pure brainwork so far... (My brain's still in the freezer to cool down a bit) In case someone ever actually uses them and finds something wrong, please let me know!
Hope you like it!:)
Check out the fill font if you wanna print your own custom-made design on the letters!
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So, SO true - the one downside to this app is its unrelentingly addictive nature. That said, I absolutely love this font - can't think of any time when I'd use it in a design, but for a rainy day's activities this is tops.
@chr.s: yep, definitely not my most useful fontstruction... but it could look cool for example in the background of a flyer. of course the context would have to fit... and right, who does flyers for crafting groups every day. ;)
I think you should mention Funk_King for the initial spark.
(I know because I tried to build the "E"...)
@funk_king: Yep, I've thought about a filled version too for simple type-use. But before cloning i wanted to have the complete character set... Now I'm actually thinking about doing fill letters on the lowercase, so you'd have all in one font. What do you think about that? Outline sounds interesting too...
@Em42 and cayo: The cut-and-glued real life sample is actually done already! Looks pretty cool, and the satisfaction of seeing that everything goes exactly where it's supposed to, is so huge that I'm seriously considering becoming a punch-out-sheet designer... (Kidding!)
Anyway, I can now confirm that A, H, S and T work perfectly. Here's a picture from the making-of:
Excellent stuff.
A big smile on my face :-)
Superb job.
a laptop, scissors, uhu... and some crazy @$$ punched out type!
(nice light & shadows, btw.)
please excuse my language, but I'm havin way too much fun & I should get back to work, but...
I'll start with the period, it's the easiest one.
Unfortunately there is no rating over 10, because this would deserve it!
@afrojet: It was actually roughly 48 hours from initial idea to the final glueing, I just uploaded the picture a bit later. Not so good for the exams I should have been studying for, but funnily I always go extreme on fontstruct when I should really really do something else. (Not to say something more important, haha...)
@Em: Wow, awesome! I so wouldn't have thought that anyone actually ever tries them out... :) And yep, the gluing can definitely get messy. In what size did you print it? I guess anything above two characters per A4 sheet gets too small to get them together nicely.
Anyway, cool that I can tick off the E too now, thanks a lot! Are we going to see M, 4 and 2 too or did you already go nuts after one letter? ;)
The original plan was to spell out my nick, and if I have some free time during the weekend I will (but with such an hot Summer in Rome it is very unlikely I will stay home).
I also thought of cheating by using the E for the M as well (with some Photoshop trick), but then I realized they have different side parts and flaps, so it would have not been fair! :)
And I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable with the thought of you hyperventilating in your study in sweltering heat full of glue vapours while your friends hang on the beach of ostia... So better cheat and save time! ;)
They should really think about implementing a few lines of code that erase statistically too obviously diverging votes...
Maybe Rob & Co. could implement a like system in which you either like it or don't. if you do, it adds one "like". I think that could kill the font troll.
It certainly gets a 10 from me. Nigel Tufnel's amp in Spinal Tap goes up to 11 ... shame we can't do the same.
Hay there~
Just made this, thought you'd like to see!
Turned out well I think. Nicely designed font, and construction was pretty straight forward.
Anyway - this was pretty fun and I wanted to say thanks - so thanks!
(Party was great and yes, MANY hours ;D )
eviltoat, you madman!
Punch Out tiene algo más de fama. Hasta SwissMiss le ha dedicado un post.
Felicitaciones!
Y pensar que te la habías guardado un buen tiempo antes de publicarla.
@cayo: Increíble... Desde que le puse en dafont.com parece hacer el tour del internet. Ya vi varios blogs y twitters, y en un poco mas que 2 semanas fue bajado 15'000 veces. Crazy!
Gracias por el link! :)
Thanks for pointing it out though!
Pretty impressive how popular fontstructions can become when exposed to a larger audience.
But, let's face it, this is a pretty good example of the FS craft and deserves such success. :)
Then you just open a word document, set the page margin to 1 cm on every side, and type the letters you want at a size of ~900. That should give you about the right size...
Have fun!
Thank you
And @parda: Sorry, almost forgot to answer to your post, but: Amazing pictures, thanks a lot for sharing them! The "love" letters really look cute... Just as a hint: You can also fold them reversed, so the cutout- and folding-lines end up on the inside of the letters! Might look even better... (Of course you would have to print the texture on the backside of the paper then.)
Thank you very much! We'll do the letters with his son, it's very exciting for a boy! You - genius!
I figured I'd make some Christmas decorations out of it instead of buying some wooden ones I'd seen.
I glued Christmas wrapping paper to normal printer paper and here is the final product. Wrapping paper would not have been strong enough on it's own.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Dare I say thanks in advance?
MA
Here's a little illustration of the problem. The first is unfortunately not possible, the second is the one that I have in the design now (definitely an ugly thing, looks more like space-invaders-mas than x-mas, but quite convenient for the punch out design), and then two possible alternatives that I could probably do...
Looking at it now, I think solution 4 is probably the best one. What does the majority say?
(But I will unfortunately not be able to design this as a punch out layout before saturday... would that still be early enough for your christmas decoration?)
Cheers!
Mary Anne
1) download
2) type
3) print
4) cut
5) color
6) fold
7) tape
8) decorate
Peek preview:
(And no, that's not fontstructed anymore...)
Also thanks for pointing out the bug on the F – that's fixed. Any hints as to where you found other bugs?
Wow! This is the best! My brother fainted when he saw this font!
You should add punctuation marks like ? and !. But this is SUPER COoL!!
Can you add:
-Russian -Latin extended
@mega
? and ! are two lines, and you will need string to make it hang
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