I have an idea: Why not make the marked weights equal to the decimal Unicode code point? e.g. the capital A is 65 tons, the lowercase a is 97 tons, etc.
@japanyoshi If I put the codepoint in decimal as the weight in tons, then the weights would be too heavy to even hold by the strongest rope.
@everyone Thanks. The font was named TenTon because of how heavy the weights were. The letters themselves are painted onto the weights. 19.9klb is roughly 10 tons of weight. I thought "what could be the heaviest thing I could think of", I went with the ten ton weights.
@JaceFonts I got the name from ten ton weights, if I made loweracse using five ton weights, then the font wouldn't be called "TenTon", but I can create actual lowercase letters, like so:
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The letters are painted on what are literally ten ton weights.
an interesting interpretation of "heavy"
I have an idea: Why not make the marked weights equal to the decimal Unicode code point? e.g. the capital A is 65 tons, the lowercase a is 97 tons, etc.
funny enough, this was the first thing that came to my mind after reading the blog post on Heavycomp
@japanyoshi If I put the codepoint in decimal as the weight in tons, then the weights would be too heavy to even hold by the strongest rope.
@everyone Thanks. The font was named TenTon because of how heavy the weights were. The letters themselves are painted onto the weights. 19.9klb is roughly 10 tons of weight. I thought "what could be the heaviest thing I could think of", I went with the ten ton weights.
Here's a suggestion: to distinct uppercase from lowercase, but lowercase on 5 ton weights.
@JaceFonts I got the name from ten ton weights, if I made loweracse using five ton weights, then the font wouldn't be called "TenTon", but I can create actual lowercase letters, like so:
Lowercase added. (Corrected capitalization in sample)
The only thing I don't like is that lowercase 'g' is way too wide.
Something like this maybe?
@AFontAbove I made the lowercase g on there narrower, but your suggestion was too narrow for my liking. I put the original in the PUA.
Taking the theme too literally. I like it.
Can you make the normal version? (like without the ten ton weights, only regular glyphs)
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