Effleurage

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by geneus1

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Effleurage brick massage. Sharp and curvy 6x10 grid space experiment. Weird spacing due to double size filtering in conjunction with half bricks makes this mostly unusable. But that's why there's alternate spaced letters instead of numbers...for now. The spacing is compensated to look better in actual use than on the preview. Minimal space tweaking was done on the sample, but wherever the spacing was really off (which was pretty much everywhere), the alternate space character was used. Alt spacing characters: a = 1 s = 2 x = 3 z = 4 Z = 5 S = 6 e = 7 o = 8 t = \ g = ^ s = | Ligatures: fi = @ ff = _ fl = # ffl = /
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Created on 21st July 2009. Last edited on 15th August 2014.
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Creative Commons
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4 Comments

Comment by geneus1 23rd july 2009

Usability is overrated, I say. Hah hah. A fantastic achievement. Wish I saw it first to give it a 10.
That g is a sensuous massage all by itself.

Comment by intaglio 23rd july 2009

I really like following where these small grid experiments are taking you. I find myself looking at each glyph and attempting to recreate in my mind how you accomplished the build. Dig the ligatures.

Comment by afrojet 23rd july 2009

@intaglio: Thanks. This and the next two sharp serif experiments are dedicated to you.

@afrojet: Thanks for noticing what's going on behind the bricks. The difficulty in fontstructing these experiments go easily unnoticed unless you've been there.

Comment by geneus1 25th july 2009