fs Twist
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Info:Created on 5th September 2010. Last edited on 13th February 2011.
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@dj: Updated your least favs. Have a look.
@elmoyenique: I was really scared sharing this one because even though the design came from my own twisted head, after being accused for copying fs I Square, it has been gnawing at me if anyone was going to believe the originality of anything I do from now on? On the other hand, I have been keenly observing your own progress and I am duly impressed with each new work. Keep it up. :-)
"When I was a young boy..."
Even though I have a lot of empathy, I failed to see just how difficult an experience you had recently. When Diego Sanz shared his triggered response to Tylo’s t-shirt design which uses your beautiful fontstruction, fs I Square, I decided it was not of benefit nor my place to chime in, and I hope doing so now can offer you some support and relief.
Diego’s worries about plagiarism reveal where he is at in his own creative and professional process. They are his own. None of us agree with his judgements that your font is a knockoff or even derivative. We who know your beloved body of real work can see that this question ~ Is Ata Syed a creative fraud? ~ to be as offensive as it is patently false. No doubt in my mind that you are utterly original and honorable.
Please do not take on any more of his paranoia. Please do your best to let go of the fear that others may see you in this light. I am sorry for the difficulty you have experienced, which is totally understandable and highly relatable for me. It is not an easy situation which perhaps only time will heal. Sharing more new work while still feeling some of this, you must have already taken great strides toward this healing.
One thing that feels important to note about my recollection of the timeline:
A fontstructor named Zefyrinus shared Stone Slab well before Diego released his commercial font. Quincha shares a lot more common ground, and apparently inspiration, with this earlier work than yours does with his.
I will repeat the obvious: novelty in type design does not equate to genius.
I must also point out that, despite lacking the typographic training or cultural language to see just what they were doing, literally thousands upon thousands of school children have made letterforms using this blocky idiom (even the part of filling in each and every negative space with a corresponding shape) to adorn their binders and school books. I know quite well having gone to school with maybe a hundred of them. And they were all imitating each other! Yet I challenge anyone to say definitively who first came up with this well-worn style?
Thal, you are quite brilliant in making the old new again. We love you for sharing this with us again and again. I think it is all we can hope to achieve in pursuing this art of type design.
Just my thoughts. I am sorry myself for failing to be a better friend to you and others, but I promise to never again use that as my excuse to not sharing what feels important. Surely I too am misunderstood, but only I can allow myself to be a victim to it.
I am hoping Rob can fix my mistake.
I couldn't have said it any better than will.i.ૐ.
We got your back! :)
did this work?
Is the italic ended? I hope so...
This font is great (I say in no italic)! 10/10
Nippa made a composite accessibility and there was an accidental bold... tag? Now this?? I thought a tag was "a key that opens certain doors", not "an elixir spilled on a book page."
@Bismuth: “tag” in this case refers to [HTML] tag.
@xeno- "HAS the italic."
But here is my thought on originality: it doesn't exist. Everyone is inspired by something else. As for fs I Square, I know I did not copy his typeface, but nor can I claim that I had never seen it before making fsIS. The only thing I can even remember is thinking after completing 'fs SquaredUP (and nowhere to go)' is, "is there really no where to go?", which is when the idea for the 'square' came up (and not without the clue in the name of SquaredUp). Then it was just a matter of cloning and modifying, which took far less than 30 hours that he so objected to (more like one or two). Can I help it if fontstruct makes it so easy to build out a font, or even, all modesty aside, the proficiency I have using fontstructor after countless hours spent in it?
As for the shapes being the same, OK, here are the limitations: the glyph must be a square, only thin lines for negative space. Go! How I, or anyone else, could create a different 'A', I don't know. But something that his font contains that mine didn't: lowercase. There's a reason for that. I hate it when ascenders don't ascend or descenders don't descend. That makes it impossible for making a square b d f g h i j k l p q t or y. Hence no lowercase. And, what's more, I came up with this all on my own without once having to go and check what an A or Q or S looks like in a square.
And anyone who has known me from the beginning knows my fascination with completely solid block of text without compromising on legibility. It is not surprising that I would fill the negative space with mini squares. One might even call me predictable.
Original? Hardly. Copied? Not.
And I loved it when in his narration, after "copying" fsIS I said, "Awesome". How conceited am I?! When the reality is, I get this nervous tension every time I share anything.
So...thanks again for all your support...and for appreciating my rehashing of unoriginal ideas. In my next life, I will seek to be born in isolation so as not to be influenced by *any* external source. Until then...
:-)
@meek: Thank for the Top Pick. You spoil me. And as for that other comment, lets just let it go. Nothing I say is going to change his mind anyway. PS: will.i.ૐ's comment is now appearing in your name. I know I am two users, but are you two too? I mean, are you two one? I mean...oh, you know what I mean. :-)
I am quite sure you didn’t copy anything.
Furthermore: Your style is unique! It CAN’T have been copied from somewhere else.
Just please keep fontstructing in the normal way. Many of us would be sad, if you stopped to spread your ideas and your unique style.
cheers
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@geneus1: Thanks. I have a hard enough time finding anything specific in 300+. I am sure your challenge is exponentially more difficult. But, knowing you, I am also certain you have a brilliant tagging solution to help in retrival as well. PS: 1000+? Awesome.
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