This isn't a font, but rather a collection of very helpful free tools for font designers and FontStructors alike.
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The collection includes various tools to help you with the optimization process in the final stages of your type design project. Tools to create custom kerning sheets, tools for font testing etc.
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KERNING:
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• Whitespace Character Removal Tool
Simple whitespace, tab, and newline deleter.
• Line Break Removal Tool
Removes line breaks from any kind of text.
• Combination Generator
Create every possible combination from a provided input string.
• Lorem Ipsum Generator
Multilingual Lorum generator for randomized typographic filler text.
• Text Test String Generator
Stringmaker is a little tool for generation of test strings that are useful in type design processes, most notably spacing and kerning.
• Kerning Pairs Generator
Quickly generate kerning pairs and test all the letters, numbers, ligatures, and other glyphs more quickly and efficiently.
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FONT TESTING:
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• FontDrop! / Web-Based Font Check-Up, Testing Tool
Tool that allowes some very helpful font testing, especially useful for checking how a font behaves in a web-based digital display format.
• FontDrop!-Compare / Web-Based Font Comparison Tool
Tool that allowes to cross-compare different fonts or font versions.
• Cyreal Font Testing Page / Web-Based Font Check-Up, Multi-Testing Tool
Tool that allowes some very helpful font testing, useful for checking kerning or how a font behaves in web-based digital display format. (Similar to FontDrop! but more powerful)
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FONTSTRUCT PRE-BUILD MATERIALS:
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• STF_FAUX BEZIER ROTUNDS
Pre-build linear-Interpolated curve collection
• STF_CURVE TOOL (Small Grid)
Pre-build small grid round letterforms
• STF_CUSTOM BRICKS 3.0
Custom composite brick collection
• STF_CUSTOM BRICKS 2.0
Custom composite brick collection
• STF_CUSTOM BRICKS 1.0
Custom composite brick collection
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I hope I can include some more tools in the future, if you have a helpful tool that you think should be included to this list as well please let me know.
I hope you'll enjoy this for now!
Cheers
This is a cloneDesigned for those members who want inspiration, it could guide them when they need ideas on which to base a font.
Use this like a font: close your eyes and type a 'word' with at least 7 letters.
If you can touch-type: forget it; you'll need to be quite unstructured in order to get a good variation of letters every time you want inspiration ;) If you want some uncertainty -bad spelling will be very helpful here;)- you could write the 'name' of the minute when you decided to get inspiration for a new font , inUpperCase ... then follow this with one of your names in LowerCase. But for fun and better chance at not getting the same word every time you need inspiration I suggest you just hit different keys and then look at the line of glyphs ;)
Just remember: use UpperCase to write the first part of this word, the LowerCase to write the other part of the word. Look at the [second or] fourth and the [penultimate or] third before last letter of your 'word'.
The UC will give you an 'image'. Your font will transmit the meaning illustrated by this letter (in the widest sense).
The LC gives the type of look your font should have. You now have 2 guides/ideas/starting points which influence the kind of font you make.
Remember that the UC should make you look at concepts, invisible messages and your own experience or lack of 'ken', as well as the visible things in the images I drew.
To express that differently:
Your font design is guided by a main theme (based on the UC) and a way to present it/a style of expression (based on the LC).The font will be influenced a little or a lot by each UC 'image'; you adjust the look of your font according to the "feeling"/a memory/a dream or wish/an experience/lack of familiarity that you have about what that which my playful pixel illustration represents.
The presentation of the font, the style, how the eye slides across to absorb information or spends time to investigate the beauty or quality of every glyph, is determined by the LC. Combine these two aspects from UC and LC, that"s what your font will convey through the shapes of th glyphs.
In my 'comment' below I give you a few ideas of what could be linked to each of the UC letters; it's up to your areas of study, experience, interest, and the time you want to use for designing and building your fonts, which -if any- of the proposed words and concepts I mention will be the one(s) you want to combine with the type of presentation you found in the LC letter.
Choose a good name for your font, it's probably a good idea to have a name that isn't the keyword I gave in the UC list -- I can imagine that those key words have long been taken by font designers for their fonts.
Note: the "INSPIRED FONT" is still in development; when I have more illustrations for objects, situations, feelings etc or styles of presentation (I am open to suggestions!) I will try to find a suitable design to add to the glyphs as there are still a few empty slots in the Basic Latin set ;)
..:*:.. Have fun ..:*:..