I wonder whether the thin lines would benefit from being a wee bit thicker (they disappear at smaller sizes in the sample).
The following might help you with smoothing the curves a bit more - - just clone it and copy the composites on the 'D' glyph into your own work - don't forget to delete them when you have finished :)
I'm sorry to say All Bricks 6 is unfortunately out of date, and missing many new composites.
Here is the original essential tool called All Composites In My Bricks, which All Bricks 6 is an older copy of.
Add it as your FAV, trust me you'll be using it a lot. I know many of the top Fontstructors don't start a new font without it. All the best.
I'm already using All Composites In My Bricks, it's just that because my thin lines are half a brick wide I could only use the ones at a gradient of 4 and I could only use those when in between 2 bricks, for there are no half brick versions of any of the composites.
@p2pnut You're right; the lines are too thin at smaller sizes. Once I've added in all the glyphs that I will ever intend on making, I will clone this font and make Canary Bold.
I only did one angle (bottom left to top right), as there are 3 other variations of each shaped brick, depending on which angle and direction you want. That's 88 bricks (I think) .To have them all would simply take up too much space in the menu.
You can either rotate and flip horizontally/ vertically yourself, or will have to create the other angles by making the composites.
To see how I composed the 'slashes' click he arrow key over a brick, wile holding down the SHIFT key.
Here are the other possibilities.
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I wonder whether the thin lines would benefit from being a wee bit thicker (they disappear at smaller sizes in the sample).
The following might help you with smoothing the curves a bit more - - just clone it and copy the composites on the 'D' glyph into your own work - don't forget to delete them when you have finished :)
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/all_bricks_6
Here is the original essential tool called All Composites In My Bricks, which All Bricks 6 is an older copy of.
Add it as your FAV, trust me you'll be using it a lot. I know many of the top Fontstructors don't start a new font without it. All the best.
@p2pnut You're right; the lines are too thin at smaller sizes. Once I've added in all the glyphs that I will ever intend on making, I will clone this font and make Canary Bold.
Whilst my 'All Bricks' is far less comprehensive I find the 'toolbox' to be a useful selection for most curves.
What I do need to do is update mine with the up-tp-date version of 'All Composites In My Bricks'.
You can either rotate and flip horizontally/ vertically yourself, or will have to create the other angles by making the composites.
To see how I composed the 'slashes' click he arrow key over a brick, wile holding down the SHIFT key.
Here are the other possibilities.
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