FontStruct | FontStruction Feed: fs The I

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Comment from saberrider

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

awesome and very useful. i love that touch of bauhaus design. the only thing that distracts me a little is the x. i can see that there arent many solutions in that system but it really reminds me of a swastika (not the nazi one but the traditional sign). i would really much appreciate an alternative x but the typeface is great anyway.

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, saberrider. The x has been updated, as requested. Enjoy.

Comment from saberrider

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

cool. i like x much better now. :)

Comment from intaglio

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Nifty idea. You really have a talent for visualising quite difficult things. And getting more so as time goes on.

Comment from SquarePeg

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I voted only 9 points because there are no numerals (coming soon, perhaps?)... This is excellent, thalamic!

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

another nice one :)

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@saberrider, funk_king: Thank you. Encouragement makes it easy to continue. @intaglio: This was a fun font to do. How suggestible we all are! @SquarePeg: Thanks. These numerals are for you.

Comment from SquarePeg

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I've raised my vote to 10 points, thalamic. :-)

Comment from Zini

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

this one is amazing! getting the 3D-effect without an outline. i consider if a non-italic version is possible with fontstruct...

Comment from jmarquez

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This one calls for a uppercase. good job.

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Improvement or made it worse?

Comment from SquarePeg

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I think the t is harder to read now... But I don't think the half-serifs are all that bad. But maybe you should (gasp!) have two versions of The I. Part of the older version's strength, for me, was the simplicity of the shapes.

Comment from afrojet

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Thamlamic. Great concept. I've been toying with an oblique 'Struction as well but thought I'd put it on the back-burner until some kind of right side tracking came down the pipe. Do you care to share any strategies you used in spacing this one out on the grid?

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@SquarePeg: I agree. Maybe I will clone it and re-simplify it. But the t is more interesting now, no? @afrojet: Nothing special. Some characters are at the left edge, some go left one, some two; j goes over 6 grid spaces; etc. The oblique makes it convenient to have bottom-right serifs as they still fit in the top-right overhang. The same thing makes kerning a nightmare for d, f and l because they extend to the right two grid spaces too much. The sample is manually kerned. (--added extra kern space between t / h, removed same between d / i and d / e; the rest are default--) I enabled Clone so check it out. :) Defining the right side limit would definitely fix some of the kerning problems but it won't be a full kerning solution. Someday, if I get bored of FontStruct, I may try to fix the kerning issues in FontLab. Some-distant-day, ie.

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

afrojet's comment got me intrigued. Although the left starting point for each glyph in this and The I Flat is the same, the shadow is two grid spaces wide, hence the width of each character in The I was a bit more than The I Flat, making it tedious to lay one on top of the other, requiring per-character kerning at design time. So I broke out FontLab and cleaned up points, fixed the metrics and added kerning info into this and The I Flat. The result is shown in the sample below, which is just two layers of text, one in each font, without any manual adjustment. I can't upload those fonts anywhere, but if you contact me though the handy-dandy message service with your address, I'll be glad to email them to you.

Comment from afrojet

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Most excellent. Thanks for the pointers. I will be eager to compare the two.

Comment from geneus1

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I'm gone for a while and miss out on all the fun. Splendid, thalamic. Now I can't wait for right side tracking.

Comment from laynecom

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It always amazes me what you can come up with, thalamic. Great work.

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks guys. The I and The I Flat have been re-mastered--thanks to the new spacing controls. The I Flat should now lie on top of the The I perfectly aligned without the need to manually kern one or the other. The ying to the yang, Gene. :)

Comment from emepar7

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

All the letters look so perfect. I think the space is a bit too narrow though.

Comment from kix

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

sorry man... @emepar7: you seem to have the need to do something better in everything, right? You made some really "obscure" suggestions on here, not always and sometimes really useful. But in some of your comments, i don't know what to think... Do you honestly think thalamic didn't balance the space button's width by his own feeling/decision ?

Comment from emepar7

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I have nothing but love for this font...it's a 10/10. The stars are to vote on a font, isn't the discussion to say (subjectively) what works and what doesn't? I wish people critiqued my fonts more not less! That's the only way to improve. I downloaded this awhile ago but just looked at the sample text and found it hard to read.

Comment from jhejka

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Great job! I'm making my own version of this with capitals.

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

where you been?

Comment from Kohji

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Great job!

Comment from storm

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

ilike