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Wow! I Love this Font!
pretty damn cool
Hmm... How comforting is the smell of a good coffee (even if it's decaffe)... And how comforting is the smell of an excellent font like this, compa! My 10 2 U!
@RobMeek: Thanks for the pink star of appreciation boss. Sorry for the towering skyscrapers... ;-)
This work of yours brings out many associations, yet not a single one that I can describe specifically. The proportions are very interesting.
Aww @Cookz Its alright my friend. As long as it isn't your inner "Jack The Ripper" that is brought out by it, or that you would suddenly transmorph into "Ali Baba" and his odd Forty some Thieves. Certain things simply weren't meant to say.
The fewer mankinds tries to process and decipher the more magical their world would become. — #Incomprehensibility≡power!
So here is a "One-Click-Fix-All" pro-tip for y'all freshly new type-hungry foodtruck hipsters that are making their first 'lil baby-steps into this vast rabithole that is "Typography". —Don't believe the hype..
You do not have to borderline this full on nerdy misanthropist persona to tap into this additional extra creative dimension. You can just as easily succeed while still being the strong and muscular, crazy good looking dumbsh*t all us kiddo's had dreamt of to eventually one day become.
So don't hesitate and unlock your hidden wondrous world now. All it takes is to just become unimaginably crazy darn stupid.
Now thats just friggin easy, innit? — Like robbing the pope from his Hail Mary!
PS: This is going to be the last and final tip I will share for the remainder of this week. So I strongly advise u to make the absolute most of it.
@Sed4tives, I would say it somehow feels Bioshock’s Rapture-y much more than anything else. And yeah, I know, because both are art deco, but for some reason the way the tall stretched proportions and floating dots over i, j evoke the feeling of quirkiness that is the closest to what the first Bioshock radiates.
Oh, and I have just noticed there are also alternates and oldstyle numerals—this is one masterful and robust work!
I am going to be frank though, I am stunned and unable to make out anything of the tip your provided and whether it is directed at me or just generally at everyone. 😅
Nope, wasn't aimed at you at all actually.
But, kind-of rude of you to asume you are starring in all my stotiez CookieBrah.
U special, just not that special.. 😅
PS: My "Pro-tip" can, and should only convey to complete morons and hazed out new-age hippie snobs. As there is hardly a thing worthy of understanding anyway. But those people typically are so damn "tuned in" that they hear and see messages in everything, even trees.
—bleh, couldn't get any of my friends to come over at my place that I would otherwise have victimized instead. So now the internet has to suffer from this sorry excuse of a bad comedy show. 😅😅
Nature of the game homie..
An excellent font with some wonderful samples, would fit in well on the streamliners of old~
—yep, them lucky sailors..
And of course thanks for your ever so kind words of approval seadweller! 😉
Very nice Art Deco posters. I'm happy to see someone who is not afraid of having descenders! Many of your glyphs, especially the lowercase a, d, u, w, and y, could be improved with optical adjustment (a little overshoot). 10/10
Very Cool Ar-deco font with very high points in i j. It may be worth making alternatives with dots lower.
@Frodo7: That is correct, I'm most certainly not affraid of glyphs taking a nosediving well bellow the baseline or others that try to reach for the stars.
There is a number of methods to play around when dealing with additional extra bits of whitespace from a line-break. Such wild contrast in proportional ratios between cap-height and x-height, combined with condensed letterforms in terms would only amplifying this effect even further. These design parameters cause bigger chucks of open space than with more traditional proportions, and is simply an inescapable effect that lies within the very fabric of their design characteristics.
So one should at least take into account for a certain degree of negative impact to occur in designs that feature excessive descending parts. Some methods that can deal with this are super easy to implement into an existing concept, and hardly require any glyphs to be modified, let alone redesign. For example a slight offset of baseline-allignement for the capital letters can do the trick on many occasions. Another is trying to lure away the readers awareness from anything critical by ever so subtly manipulating their attention to focus on other design elements that may be equally out there. When not shy of a personal challenge one could choose to head out and try to find harmonic perfection in a more thorough approach towards overal hamonic distribution of various typographic elements, specific key letter-segments, or even entire glyphs.
In the end type-design is just another form of harmonic composition very much like music composition is. And although what I'm about to say next would make absolutelly no sense what-so-ever, since the two crafts look nothing alike. Neither are there final end products. Yet they are amazingly simial at a fundamental level, in how these different crafts are approached creatively, but also how sublte variations interact and little details dictate the entire end-user experience. Typography to me personally is simply music, but instead of its sequence been written in notes to make chord progressions, a typographic sequence is written in letters to make text compositions.
—Good lord, and I'd be thinking this was going to be a short comment that would breefly explain why it is that this font lacks any form of proper optical corrections, more specifically "overshoots".
Well, this is because they proven to be next-to-impossible to pull off down at this small grid ratios. Traditional means for making these minute modifications doesn't allow for small enough functional parameter values that can cope with the required changes at ratios smaller that the 1/16th grid units limitation. So to tackle these optical issues and get them to look right and appear natural could simply not be achieved by traditional means.
And not only didn't do justice to the overall aesthetics of the font when preceived as a whole. On the contrary, instead it only made things worse.
The size ratio would made any modification to optically appear as if it was implemented much more drastically than the values typically represent. Even at the smallest possible values these modifications translated to a very disruptive, I'd say rather destructive effect to a letterform's overall geometric characteristics. Thus potentially could change a lettering-concept's entire appearance and the mood it provokes drastically. Making for something that would ever more so look like another font entirely, than for it to still faithfully resemble the original concept's bare-boned letter-geometry. And to be honest, its just crazy to think one would even consider doing this in FontStruct to begin with.
—When the laws of physics no longer apply to what science is able to observe or tries to accomplish, even the worlds most brightest of minds get a little itchy and start scratching the back of their heads.
In sort of a similar way the inner-mechanisms create this invisible barrier within the FS-editor as well. Creating FontStruct's very own equivalent of what is known in science as our "observable universe". This is a physical barrier in space as to what we are able to observe. Beyond this boundary electromagnetic radiation emitted from any object could not have reached us yet, thus we can not (yet) see nor largely detect these very distant objects.
The main diference is that in FontStruct this boundary lies further inward towards the smallest scale of the spectrum, whereas with "the observable universe" due to cosmological expansion relative to its own age this boundary is observed at a grand scale instead. Yeah, well, another fundamental difference is that in the FS-editor I can still interact with objects, whereas in the universe by definition we can not, and could therefore never.
But appart from this they both effectivelly set the same physical limitation for understanding two very similar concepts; that are "Space" and the "Grid".
The limitation of what we can understand as to how "particles" or "bricks" interact within their own respective domains with our comprehension of the grand model of everything. That is even today still building on that incomplete blueprint we currently only have.
The whole genereal notion of concepts like impossibilities and uncertainties, yet probabilities, is as crazy as it is fascinating. Synthesis randomly emerging from simply throwing in a bunch of odd conflicting numbers and ratios to the FS-maths mechanics, is... well; Lets call it stupendously "frustrating" fun. And as I was never destined to become a real scientist. I grew older while it became painfully more apparent, that in all actuality I had missed out on the very facilities earlier on in life that theoretically ultimately could've landed me this "adult" dream job.
—So, from "distant stars" to "pink stars of appreciation"— In terms of FontStruct;
Things equelly becomes more uncertain, unpredictable and most is experimental rather than scientific. The FS-editor's internal math algorithms no longer correctly work in correlation to resize ratios for brick-compositions and modifications. Yet it is often here that I find the greater comfort and satisfaction to be a more ambitious version of myself. When (at times) struggle and having to deal with these, seemingly "impossible" objectives. Find new solutions or perhaps some clever intuitive way to work around a truly impossible accomplishment.
It isn't a well kept secret that most career-blunders end up in the gutter sooner or later. Not being the strongest of personalities, who had also epically missed out on becoming an important scientist. So, I ended up not in one, but in two gutters. First one was the dark depths of music production, and followed by a second one was typograpy.
—I just haven't font away to write my way black-out of them. And will probably forever remain a huge audiophile and typoholic #4life
So not a big surprise that I just ended up as type design's misfit equivalent of what would be a labeled a lowlife bum drug addict in the real world. Going from "fix" to "fix" in this infinite cycle of forever chasing the "Highs". FontStructs quirky personality at the very smallest of its capabilities became like my gateway drugs into this extraordinary place that is my very own personal "Euclidic" imaginarium.
Thanks @RobMeek for FRUNTSTOCT 😛, and the many "hits" to wonderland your creation has given me.
Thanks@Frodo7 for your allways constructive and keen input my friend, much appreciated!
And I'll try another attempt at somehow get a means of optical corrections.
I haven't really explored another method for doing this by way of small overlapping arrangements of brick modifications that make minute changes to the glyphs outer-contour edge portion of a letter-segment would otherwise also had the overshoots.
But again, I can't yet tell if this would fully allow me to set things straight.
Damn I feel sorry for whoever brave enough for the full read (I apologize),
good luck.
I just noticed you completely misspelled FONTSTRUCT.
@davilarichard683: I did not... its just that you don't understand the joke thats within, RobMeek will get it though.
But please.. find something else u can enjoy instead of playing "human" spell-checker.
See image.. @@davilarichard683
@Sed4tives - At least you had the correct letters in FRUNTSTOCT, so it's not a "complete" spelling; they were just re-arranged. One example of a "complete" mispelling of FONTSTRUCT would be MQAPKJE5V. ;^)
@Sed4tives: I've read your lengthy comment twice. It is a good example to the young generation of how communication looked like before tweets and emojis. Your text flows naturally, following your thoughts.
Optical adjustments: I start my designs with that in mind. The Nudge function helps a lot.
Your self-reflection: Don't be so hard on yourself. I know nothing about your music production endeavors, but your fine typography is a success. Your works are elegant and sophisticated. You are a patient and disciplined creator.
I know what it means: "in the gutter." The gutter is a metaphor for dirty streets, the slums (source: Google). To me, "gutter" means something clean and practical: the inner margin between facing pages, a stripe of white space that I must increase if my book has more pages. So simple and beautiful.
Don't worry my friend,
I am very happy, but above all, grateful for how the past has unfolded. And how this eventually would shape my future didn't turn out to be all that bad either. My music production endeavors were quite successful. If you're interrested in finding out more on that you can find a link in my FS-profile. —But beware— this is a "multi-genre" catalog, spanning a very broad range of moods. So, running into noisy (anti-) music "industrial" mayhem on the very first song of choice, doesn't at all necessarily mean there isn't easy going lush musical compositions in there. It is only (for most part) my musical works that have been released via my own record label (and presents merely a fraction of the full discography from a 30 year long sonic-endeavor).
The only real "gutters" I have seen during my life were those of my very own disorganized messy wasteland that is my workspaces that I shamelessely call "studios", I still enjoy that one a lot (lol). The others kind are those you would run into at 3 a.m. when looking for the afterparties. —Can't really say that I didn't enjoyed some of these either— How unlikely this may sound to some, just believe me when I say (I was a rockstar once, so..), that some of the best events simply happen in the most unlikely of places. I mean; —bloc party, after party or "gutter" party..
—Ain't these all just different names for one and the exact same thing?
A true rockstar isn't afraid to "descend" a little deeper and get dirty at times—Moldy basements, nasty waste water drainage systems as well as "prime time" big flashy main stages, I've seen 'm in all shapes and sizes...
@goatmeal
well yes, but actually yes
@digitalio-2: Why, ain't that a surprise, that out of all FS-members it just had to be you (of course, who else, right..?) who once again just couldn't resist the urge to drop in on a conversation and reply, but add absolutely nothing to the actual conversation. Just some random stuff nobody can follow, let alone could even care for less!
As if you only drop in to urinate all over the place just to leave a mark, reminding everyone about your ever presence.. happy again?
that alternate lowercase r looks similar to STF_VAN NELLE (Blueprint)'s
@SUMMER701: Just a case of unintentional coincidence.
But I don't mind to use a similar letterform idea more than once (and have done so in numerous fonts). In this particular case I do believe that the two still show some clear differences to another though.
how do u make it not pixely like this
Cool!
hello. it's your biggest hater here again. it's me lorenzo. mwahahahahahahahahahaha!!! you'll never stop me!
May I know what geometrical shapes you applied to make this awesome font structure? Can you guide me briefly? Is it really Font Structure productivity?
(to ImLorenzo999) why is your profile picture look like this to me.
IntERgalaCTIc
明徽哥哥
Great font!
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