"Do not use big fancy words around these here parts. We done believe in speaking plain and clear. You all might have the city learnin' we all don't've 'round 'ere, but we got plenty of buckshot for your ass when you use big lawyer talk'n to steal our land."
-Just kidding.
Xwept Plain Spoken for Common Folk font Copyright 2018 Doug Peters of Symbiotic Design.
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A vaguely Courierlike OSD (Onscreen Display) font which tries its best to be casual. The name is inspired by the old computer joke: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"
No filters or faux-beziers, just stock bricks and a bit of stacking/nudging!
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More about the design:
It started as a doodle and an attempt to make a smooth, low-resolution, low-poly font, and then it became a Courierlike. I have other fonts that tried to do polygonal round shapes before this (such as Cartoon Riot) but this design is my first real success in this area.
Initially, I made the angled glyphs before the round ones. I didn't want to change the angled ones, so glyphs like C, O, and Q became a bit wider than they are tall. I'm quite fond of this, because in most designs these glyphs tend to have a tall and narrow character. I think the mildly squat look of this font makes it cuter and gives it more personality.
A lot of glyphs were altered in specific ways to look more like metal type, especially anything with diacritics which touch the letters themselves. Other glyphs were altered specifically to be interpretable at small size. I also use angled contours and actual round bricks alongside each other within the same glyphs, another technique which is geared toward style and interpretability at small size.
This font came with many new challenges and an array of new techniques had to be designed. Loops were an insurmountable challenge because of the low resolution and heavy line weight, so I drew rounded areas to suggest them. You can see it on letters like Greek γ, ζ, and ξ.
Just a Western font inspired by other Western fonts like "Bottoms" by rilencavy and "Western Calligraphic" by Wataru Aiso.
There are only a few characters in this font, and some of the punctuation might not be original.
Xwept Common font Copyright 2018 Doug Peters of Symbiotic Design.
-Logos, graphics, web design, brand marketing & consulting.
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https://Dougs.Work/
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