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There's no inspiration here other than a desire to create a stylized mono-spaced font that is legible at small sizes. It's a solution to a fabricated problem. Getting the basic characters in, it is, evidently, not mono-spaced, even though all glyphs end at the same grid square on the right. One problem is the lack of control over the width of space. Other issues come up as well, such as the period (full stop) has to be way over there to the right of this font's grid to make it the same width as the rest of the characters.

Conclusion? Mono-spaced fonts are just not possible in fontstruct at this point. :( Correct me if I am wrong. Rob?
Stats:
67 characters, 62 downloads
Created:
Sat, 30th August, 10:21 PM
Last Change:
Tue, 23rd December, 8:17 PM
Permalink:
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/94696
Tags:
Monospace, Stylized, Small Size, Optimized, Legibility, Experiment, Fail, T S Eliot
Categories:
Sans Serif, Display
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Discussion

Stewf
Stewf Tue, 9th September, 3:45 PM

Yeah, there just aren't the spacing controls necessary for monospaced optimization ... yet.

This is really nicely done, though. Another example of how limitations spawn creativity.

kix
kix Tue, 9th September, 10:16 PM

wonderful :)

Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Wed, 10th September, 1:43 AM

Great work, I like these diagonals that give it a "human feelling"
I noticed something different in two characters "Y" and "V", and don´t know if you did it that way or if was an error on the grid (I did some of this errors and only noticed days after)

Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Wed, 10th September, 1:43 AM

thalamic
thalamic Wed, 10th September, 6:05 AM

@Stewf: Would anything ever get done without deadlines and limitations?!. :) Thanks for the compliment.

@kix: Not as wonderful as werkshalle. I just love that one so much. Thanks.

@Axel Leyer: Necessity is the mother of invention, right? The diagonals were introduced to give clarity to the lowercase letters at pixel level. They were carried over to the uppercase letters for continuity's sake. Nice catch on the Y serif. I totally missed that. The V was designed that way to maintain the right sidebearing, but since you pointed it out, I had to rethink the V design. Do you like the new V better now? Since I changed the V, I had to change the W and Y as well. Now they all seem to live happier than before. Thanks for pushing me. Appreciate it. :)

Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Wed, 10th September, 8:28 AM

Necessity is the mother of invention.. totally agree... You have to "push" your brain trying to match all the characters of a typeface... that is one of the reason I like Fontstruct (sometimes I hate it for the same reason...

I like the way you go with the "V", nice work again.

afrojet
afrojet Wed, 10th September, 8:38 AM

linux454
linux454 Wed, 10th September, 2:58 PM

I'm new to fontstruct, and I saw your font and was really impressed. Looking at your characters I noticed a brick in K that I've not seen and can't replicate. It's the brick in the middle of the intersection of the downward diagonal and the upward diagonal. Could you elaborate on how you got that shape?

thalamic
thalamic Wed, 10th September, 8:19 PM

@Axel Leyer: My sentiments exactly.

@afrojet: :)

@linux454: What you are asking for is a technique called Brick Stacking--discovered, coined, and perfected by the master fontstructor williaum. He could explain it better than I. Still, I'll try.

Put any two bricks in adjacent cells--horizontal, vertical, or even diagonal. Let's take a horizontal example and call the brick in the left cell A and the one in the right cell brick B. Select A and B. Move AB combination over one cell to the right (so that A brick is now in the cell B brick was). Deselect (this is important). Select just the B brick and move it to the left one cell. B will replace A. Undo twice. Bricks stacked. You will find that the two bricks now exist in a single cell, creating a custom brick shape.

Brick stacking only works that one time. You can move the stack anywhere you want on the character you created it but you cannot copy and paste the stack anywhere else. Any time you need a brick stack, you will have to create it manually. Hope this helps.

linux454
linux454 Thu, 11th September, 6:28 AM

@thalamic: Thanks so much, works like a champ.

caseycastille
caseycastille Fri, 12th September, 10:45 AM

Love this. Reminds me of my own handwriting, actually, which gives it a very "human" feel.

I've got to ask about the T.S. Eliot connection...am I remiss in not getting it right off the bat?

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Scuttling across the floors of silent seas..."

thalamic
thalamic Fri, 12th September, 11:53 AM

@linux454: Glad it worked. :)

@caseycastille: Thanks. The "humanization" was a happy accident.

I set out to create a mono-spaced font--which turned out to be a failed experiment. In other words, I wanted to create a monomum bang; what I ended up creating was, at best, a minimum whimper. ;) Mr. Eliot would turn in his grave if he found out what he's being quoted for.

kix
kix Fri, 12th September, 1:33 PM

superbeautyful without, but don't u think that "I" is a little wide?

i voted this 9 points, greets

geneus1
geneus1 Sat, 13th September, 2:35 AM

Nice! I almost thought it was an Intaglio.

thalamic
thalamic Sun, 14th September, 10:17 PM

@kix: Thanks. The "I" is too wide. Being a mono-spaced font, there was no other way to avoid doing that.

@geneus1: Thanks. Can't help but be influenced. :)

guentersen
guentersen Fri, 24th October, 6:26 AM

i missed this one :O
just voted 10 :)
great stuff!