The design process is typical in its atypicality (yes, it is a word, or, at least, should be!).
The atypicality necessitates the telling of the story behind it.
Looking for something to do...something easy to do, I came across the font shown 5th from the top in this article on Dieline. "I can do this," thought I. I did a 2 that looked similar. Based on that, did the 3. 5 6 9. 0 8. 1 7. "Hmm." Add the horizontal stripes. 7. 4? "No." Re-4? "No. Another 4? Perhaps thinner sides?" "Even thinner." "Hmm." Redo 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9. "Maybe this is better. OK, lets do the letters." Start with Z because it is almost a 2 with minor curve tweak. Do the S. B because 3 is done. A. V. C. E. F L. J. Etc.
The glyphs so far have a 3 horizontal band appearance. Do the lowercase. a is two bands. b is two bands...but how high should the ascender be? Also, the x-height seems wrong. Off somehow. "Can I do a 2 band uppercase with the letter slightly taller. Maybe 2 bricks taller?"
Redo A. Redo B. "No this B is not working." Redo B. Redo B. Redo B. "Hmm. Maybe." Redo C D. Redo E F L. "OK, this might work." Redo to all uppercase letters.
Do the lowercase. "Yes I like the new f." Redo other letters to include the flip. Most of the letters are the same width. "Maybe I can make this a mono-space font." Redo m. Redo M. W. V. "The A looks odd." Redo A. And so on.
The font may have started as a simple thing but it is very different now. "I'll just publish it." "No, I should at least do the basic punctuations." "No this hyphen is too thick." Redo. "Now it is too thin." Redo. "Now it is too wide. But this is mono-space font. The width cannot be altered." +. "That just looks weird." Redo +. Now the - looks off. Redo -. Now they both don't fit with the rest of the font. Redo + -. "No. I'll come back to them." Do [. "No that's too heavy top and bottom." Redo [. Do (. "This needs a different curve." Redo (. "Can I use this new curve somewhere else?" Redo @. "Hmm." Do ©. Do ®. Do ™. Do “. "I can't make this so wide." Do ‘. "Definately cannot make it mono-space." Redo all punctuation to be their natural width. "This is no longer a mono-space font. Should I redo M m W w to be more natural?" Redo do m. "No this is too much work. I can't be bothered anymore. Let the m's and w's be."
"The punctuation looks niiice. Should I do a font to match these?"
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I started making Trivial in 2020 and have been sitting on it since. I'm tired of not getting it out publicly, so here's a first glimpse of it.
I have more than 70 fontstructions and onlytwo are avaible to the public, and they're just re-creations of an old typeface. I want to share more and more original designs as time goes by tho.
Please feel free to give constructive critics and advices on how I could make this better. This is just the start,
Happy Fontstructing ♡
This is a cloneОткрытая апертура отлично сочетается с закрытой.
See more:
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1561650/comicool-1-3
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1635609/gfhnb-1
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/365395/maccheroni
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/bank-gothic/
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1310664/regulr-c
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/433974/sansybar_wide
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1505888/kf-geo
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/781070/fs_semiserif_mono
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/857246/milk_condensed_sans
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/183093/nuevosolstile
This is a cloneWip
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2048686/aereo-mono
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1723771/umstellen-thin
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1667824/slaster
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/364262/nontroppo
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1532321/tm-extend
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/696376/dm_informe_00
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1310974/umbrella-c
This is a clone of Regulr C