Sketch Bit

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Balanced Rating: 8.67
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by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ)

Cloned from Fat Bit by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ).

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More fun with composite stacks, packing more detail into smaller grids. The crosshatching is made less regular by alternating and rotating a set of ~~three~~ four similar, yet distinct bricks. correction made on 2/15
Info:

Created on 3rd January 2011. Last edited on 18th February 2011.
License:

Creative Commons
Categories:
- Display
Sets:
- Pattern Fill
- Grunge
Tag:
- Composite(47)
- Stack(22)
- Black(641)
- Sketch(15)
- Pencil(16)
- Fat(329)
- Bold(2056)
- Block(963)
- Grunge(55)
- Rough(63)
- Crosshatch(3)
- Distressed(9)
- Slab(248)
- Serif(1492)
- Display(3395)
- Williaum(34)

14 Comments

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 6th february 2011

Great use of the new stacking features, resulting in an awesome grungy font.

Comment by aphoria 6th february 2011

WOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
Really cool!
I think it would be a bit better if there was more spacing in the letters... still 10/10!

Comment by Drgrit 6th february 2011

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Sketch Bit” is now a Top Pick.

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 7th february 2011

Superb work!

Comment by elmoyenique 7th february 2011

Epic!

Comment by 3killgor3 7th february 2011

Many thanks, compadres! So glad you enjoy this little min/max experiment. Drgrit is right to point out the tight – sometimes, too tight – letter spacing. I so like the mosaic patterns that emerge from the auto-ligatures of overlapping letters that I will keep it how it is for now. Good for very short display setting, I think. Adding tracking or manually kerning to restore space between letters also gives good results and/or fixes legibility issues caused by certain overlaps.

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 8th february 2011

Hm, how exactly did you make those compsites? It's an easy 10/10, nice job.

Comment by BanjoZebra 9th february 2011

Hey, I promised BanjoZebra my answer to the composite-making question would come yesterday, and I want to apologize as a rush of unexpected tasks has kept me from getting to this. Please, be patient my young friend and I will message you when the explanation is live in the next couple days! For now, if you are reading this BZ, I highly recommend making a clone and seeing if you can recreate the anatomy of the composites from the existing bricks. : )

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 12th february 2011

I did end up cloning this - and FS Kronos - just to see how you did it. And I still can't figure out this one by highlighting the brick (You know, to see all the stacked bricks).

Comment by BanjoZebra 12th february 2011

@BanjoZebra - If you have not done so, make sure to look at the cloned glyphs using the outline function (Keyboard Shortcut "O" to Show/Hide Outline Mode). It's helped me quite often see how others make unique bricks.

Comment by Goatmeal 12th february 2011

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Sketch Bit” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 18th february 2011

Congrats for the Featured Fonstruction!

Comment by elmoyenique 18th february 2011