Escaptionist
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A small contribution to the pixel fonts category, trying to achieve a bold look with an x-height of 4 pixels.
Designed to create watermarks on pics for the house42.com blog. -
Info:Created on 5th May 2008. Last edited on 30th May 2010.
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By the way: your naming of structions shows you know your way around in culture high & low; Funny.
Cheers,
peter
What a surprise a comment on this font, as it is one of the oldest I fontstructed, low rated, and with no Top Pick mark. :)
Some facts about Escaptionist:
- It was meant to be used to create very small captions for the pics to be posted on the house42 blog. This is why a full set is available. Later on we scrapped this idea and we preferred adding a watermark.
- As usual I preferred to put in evidence the limit of the design, instead of hiding it. The staircase effect was used to emphasize the jagged diagonals of the pixel-based letterforms.
- What I like most is the slight bold effect at such a small pixel size.
As concerning the font names, I always think a lot about it, changing them quite often, before releasing the set.
Fonts with sloppy names, even if well-designed, always lack of something.
Ayway thanks really for your comment! :)
"As usual I preferred to put in evidence the limit of the design, instead of hiding it."
As you might have read on my blog, that's my attitude too. But this is a perfect way of putting it!
And: intriguing blog, yours. Where do you live?
English is not my mothertongue, I'm Italian, that's why what I write may sound odd sometimes.
P.S. I'm glad you like the blog!
And by the way, I'm belgian, so no native english speaker either. My question to where you live, came from the different locations on your blog. Ciao!
Click below for more images.
It's the first time I used FontStruct generated fonts in commercial design, and I must admit I'm really proud of them!
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