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My final entry in the competition. Inspired by Mazey, zlabyrinths eYe/FS, and wavelength. Each glyph has its own maze, and each maze connects with the next. Tilde ~ and low line _ connect words, grave ` closes beginnings and ends, and the left and right arrows < > are for the start and end. There are also some alternates in Extended Latin A. Suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks!
UPDATES:
04/06/14 The whole font has been updated to be one brick taller, and thus properly fit onto a grid. Also, some characters have been redesigned. V2.0
05/13/14 All punctuation has been modified to continue a word maze. V2.1
07/05/14 1000 downloads! Hooray! As a 'thank you', I've completed more of More Latin. V2.2
08/22/14 I've made the accents part of the maze. I've also changed a few characters, and added Œ and œ. V2.3
08/04/15 Added Polish support with Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ś, Ź, and Ż. Tweaked a few characters as well, and added a crossbar to the ð. V2.4
06/18/16 Added support for multiple languages with more Cyrillic chars and punctuation. Also tweaked a few chars.
156 Comments
I will try to make a 3D sample for this.
@architaraz: Thanks, but I don't think this could measure up to lupo. :-) I can't wait to see your sample!
I think you could do an overlay, fs lost (and found) version with a line going through the way path in and out of a letter, or fill the path that leads out.
Or something.
@meek: Thank you for this amazing honor! :D
congrats!
There are a few symbols that create dead ends, though, like the exclamation mark.
@12Me21: I'll fix those symbols right away! :-)
@crosek6: On most systems you should be able to open the .ttf-file and click the "install font" button. If not, you will have to manually put it into your system's "fonts" folder. in windows it's usually C:\Windows\Fonts
Or you could have just googled it...
It's already not a font, it's an art!
My science teacher always uses Comic Sans in her presentations. AAAAAARGH, IT MAKES MY EYES BUUUUURN!!!!!!!
Why was Arial even made anyway? It's kinda pointless...
(And you should continue this discussion on the forum, not here.)
@jc70262: Thanks a bunch! :)
@MD_: I've sent you a private message concerning your request.
1. Hiragana strokes are smooth and full of curves, maybe it is not suitable to design to maze.
2. FontStruct does not supports Unicode, so the author must map each kana to ANSI chars. I think the mapping rule is already exist since I've use some Japanese kana font which is mapped to ANSI chars.
2. FS does support Unicode. Turn Expert Mode on, then look and you'll see unicode letter set or something similar.
@Jonathan224: I've fixed F and f for you. When I redo this font with OpenType, I'll include an automatic alternate.
@jc70262: I can do Greek's simple shapes, but I don't know how well I can make the more complex Hiragana and Katakana. Maybe I'll give it a try... :-)
Great news :) Will you abandon bezier curves too?
I've also changed the diacritics for you. Some of them seem a bit awkward, so I'll try to fix them soon.
@30100flo: Thanks! I've added in the œ at your request. :)
As the rest of the users, I only miss one quite important character to complete my language's (Spanish) character set.
Guess which one
@1saac: Thanks for your compliments! I've added in Ñ and ñ for you and your Spanish-speaking compañeros.
@Constructype: Thanks for the not-so-original comments! ;) Fontstruct is definitely a great typeface-building tool, for anyone from beginner to professional!
I am beginner. How to create a font with Latin and Cyrillic characters at once?
P.S. I added example below :)
I recommend you make the spaces look just like the underscores, so the maze can always continue!
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! THAT IS THE MOST AMAZING FONT I EVER SAW IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
How did you do that?
I love this, but the clone button doesn't show at the bottom. I wanted to know how you made it.
Excellent!
(10/10)
A Maze-ment Adventure begins...
It is nice to see your font gets updated. Unfortunately the font lacks some support of Belorussian, German, Russian and Ukrainian: «/»/„ (U+00AB/00BB/201E), Ё/ё (U+0401/0451), Є/є (U+0404/0454), І/і (U+0406/0456), Ї/ї (U+0407/0457), Ў/ў (U+040E/045E), Ґ/ґ (U+0490/0491), ẞ (U+1E9E, it looks similar to ß, but the upper right part is sharper like in Z). Maybe making accented versions of I/i to be wider (like in Ł/ł/Ъ/ъ) helps to avoid overlaps of accents, or additional short space character works. The stroke of Ø/ø is very thin. There are possible places for some alternate glyphs: ɑ (U+0251), ɡ (U+0261).
Good luck.
Commercial license purchase options?
the J looks a lot like the |
Thanks for the Cyrillic. It's great.
@Skelepound: I've considered doing that, and it would certainly make it easier to continue the maze, but it also makes it hard to get an actual space. I suppose I could put a space in place of another character...
@Eʟᴇᴋᴛʀᴏɴ: I appreciate your input, as I don't know much about the letters and punctuation of languages other than English. I'll see what I can do about your suggestions.
@piccolo3nj: I've sent you a private message concerning your request.
@xanman12321: I see how the "|" might look like a "J" in the context of a word. Perhaps I could make it one "passage" wide.
@NUMB3R 73X7: Thank you! I use a lot of angled composite bricks, which you can find in All Composites saved in MY BRICKS, a wonderful tool by user djnippa. The uppercase is 43 bricks tall, and the lowercase is 37. Here's a screenshot of the "A":
This always makes me want to find the open path when I write text on a sticker or gift tag ... what a way to spend time tracing lines through the letters instead of doing 'serious' writing work (ok, using this font shows that the work on stickers, gift tags and similar small items isn't really 'serious' but one of those pleasures with added font value).
I would give you a second 10/10 but FS doesn't allow it. So you just add in your mind another 10/10 to the one I have given this font many months ago.
@Mr. Meek: For some reason, the "Ж" and "э" glyphs are each showing up twice for me. I've tried reloading the page and switching browsers, but nothing changes it.
@Eʟᴇᴋᴛʀᴏɴ: I've finished adding in the characters you asked for. I've also made (both versions of) the "ї" wider. To put a little more spacing between other glyphs, you can now use the asterisk "*" for a single-width path.
@Aeolien: Thank you! I'm grateful that you enjoy it so much. :)
@Eth I'm really impressed by how this design has grown. Are the "Ж" and "э" glyphs duplicated in the download as well?
Nope. It's not happening in the FontStructor preview either, nor on any other font I've seen. It's just on this one page. Signing out doesn't fix it either, nor does using a different computer. Do you see the same glitch?
Yes, I can see it. I'll take a closer look when I get a chance.
I, too, see the "Ж" and "э" doubled in the fontview.
please add the same letters with different paths for a complex maze
@brynda1231: It'd be awesome if there were alternate mazes, but that would require much more time and effort than I'm able to give at this point. If I ever port this to OpenType, which I really hope to do, I'll look into making alternative sets of glyphs.
Honestly, I signed up because of this font, it just looks plain "a-maze-ing!"
(laugh) Yeah? Anybody? nevermind...
I can't help but notice that you dont have this character: /, which prob. means you don't have this either:\
PLEASE ADD IT!
Something I would like to point out: the capitol A does not connect properly to the sentence connector. Other than that it looks awesome!
This is amazing work, incredibly complex and beautiful.
how do i use it?
@spider257: As long as you keep using FontStruct to create fonts, you'll get better and better and start to create professional-looking fonts. My first font wasn't very good at all, but less than a year later, I was creating fonts like this one. Keep at it and you'll be glad you did. :-)
@shonzou: I will add those characters when I have an opportunity.
@DamianP.: I'm not sure what you mean; it looks proper to me.
@La police de caractère: Thank you very much!
@memesdank: Click the "Download" button at the top of the page, under the preview window. See this page for instructions on how to install the downloaded font.
Exquisite work! But I still would like to note a few things about the Cyrillic alphabet. In letters (russian) 'Д', 'Ц', 'Щ' extension element should stick out right, and such forms of 'M' is too unusual for us and confused with three-leg 'T'.
This font looks nice! 10/10
@ETHproductions: Thank you!
@Rob Meek: Ж and э are doubled in the preview.
You still have the Φ Character, you can create the greek alphabet
Just change the paths
Extra bumps on the N in end.
Can we have copies of this so we can have our own paths
I can make the greek alphabet for you, i can copy ghe to gamme, ef to phi, pe to pi, etc.
Add ¡ and ¿, fractions, punctuation, etc,
Alt. N 14A, Alt, n 14B
Uae ` for a locked gate.
Somebody should make a 3d maze game of this font.
El Laberinto de la Soledad
Can we make our own paths
I found two glyphs that are just glitchy jargon.
You need to add the square and curly brackets. [ ] { }
you have forgotten circumflexed letters
Custom pats and a cl9ne
akash
@Sychoff: Thanks for your suggestions for the Cyrillic alphabet; I really appreciate getting feedback from someone knowledgable about the subject. I believe I fixed the extensions on 'Д', 'Ц', and 'Щ' a while back. Not sure what the 'M' should look like though; slanted sides would be difficult, but probably doable.
@brynda: Greek would be a little difficult: there aren't too many unique uppercase letters, but I believe most of the lowercase would have to be built from scratch. Same goes for adding a bunch more punctuation, fractions, etc. Also, I'd rather not make the whole font cloneable, but if you're interested, I'd be willing to make a copy with a selection of chars from the font (some of the letters, some number/punctuation, etc.) And oops, I have forgotten circumflexed letters...
@Multinia: One of those glitchy chars is a set of useful composite bricks, which you can find in All Composites saved in MY BRICKS. I don't see a second one though...
Really cool man!
Looks like the title of a book. Very cool.
cool! really cool!
Wow, it have all symbol of cyrillic! I'm in the shock!!!
Thank you :-)
Can't think of it, 11/10.
REDI
THIS SUCKS! -99999999999999/10! D:<
10/10 IGN
999/10 THIS IS AMAZING
That. Is. An. Amazing. Work. Of. ART!!!
Awesome. But can you make a Unicode version?
@xxIamcoolzz That would take a lot of work and time to do… And besides, without an override for the fontstructor.js file, the rest of unicode is not accessible…
What a nice piece of work.
ALRIGHT I'M GIVING IT A -666 OUT OF 10.
I'm lost. (pun intended)
@ETHproductions Do you know if the default FontStruct preview can be solved?
Are there any configurations that lead to an impossible (or at least extremely difficult) maze?
HOW IS IT SO GOOD
letters in greek that look like cyrillic/latin (uppercase)
ΑΒΓΕΖΗΙΚΛΜΝΟΠΡΤΥΦΧ
maze font!
you can make a maze with a lot of words
you can add arabic letters?I like arabic!
Super original 10/10 :)
MG they are even connected!
Font ahh maze
It be maze
Why are a bunch of you hating on comic sans? It's a good font!
s_richmondn: All of the individual letters are solvable, so all words are, too.
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@lucapri Which leaves only ΔΘΞΣΨΩ, and Λ since it doesn't really resemble Л.
and the lowercase greek are all unique, except (ο) as (o).
I am lost looking at this
Great work you done here.
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