http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382 FontStruct comment feed for the FontStruction: Kyuuketsuki en-us Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:45:14 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CakePHP http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1578 Is the vertical bars that are to the left of most of the capital letters, and the horisontal bars above them too much? Should I just remove them? Mind you that this font isn't complete yet. I'm gonna add more characters to it and maybe work a little more with the accented characters that I have now because they don't look completely right. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:35:51 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1578 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1597 I like the calligraphic touch of the detached vertical bars on the left of the caps — but those marks above confused me at first as they look very much like tildes in shape and position. As for the pictographic accents themselves (celtic knot circumflex?) — woah, cool and crazy idea. If you added these for purely decorative purposes, my hat's off to you for the weird and wonderful effect befitting the baroque script of nocturnal immortals. To my mostly-english reading eyes they don't really read if they are intended to be those accents, though. Also, I would make the tildes like the marks currently above the regular caps. As a whole, the accents should be roughly equivalent in weight across the whole range, so beef up the acute and diaeresis, etc...and then again, I can tell there is something behind the somewhat batty logic at play here and perhaps you should keep all these quirks intact. All considered, good work! Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:50:44 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1597 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1612 Impressive! Beautiful!!! Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:13:40 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1612 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1613 Oh wow, thanks for the comments both of you! The things that look like tildes, they were supposed to be like just these swirly decorations, I can't really explain it but it exists in some calligraphy styles. But since Fontstruct doesn't handle curves very well, they came off as very angular. Maybe I need to rework that part a little... I wanted to include different symbols in the font, but couldn't come up with many things associated with vampires (those that are, are the blood splatters and the ¨ which is supposed to be bite marks from a vampire), so I just took symbols that were associated with magic (the celtic knot/triquetra) or dark stuff (the upside-down crosses) in general. Well, there is still garlic and holy water that's associated with vampires, but I didn't want to include stuff that the vampires are weak against. Anyway, what I was thinking with the celtic symbol is that it's somewhat triangle shaped, just like ^. And for the caron/hacek I can have the same thing except upside-down. Maybe it is a problem that they might not be understood to be diacritics, but then I thought that if one writes in a language that uses diacritics regularly, one will understand from the context what the symbols are supposed to mean. Oh, and I need to fix the spacing between the letters btw. Fontstruct doesn't support kerning, so that's why I let some of the thin, decorative parts of the letters go outside the left boundary. Also, the blank-space is way too thin. Does anyone know what regulates the width of the space? Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:25:46 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1613 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1653 Hi Zefyrinus. Killer fontstruction! I really like the unconventional and ornamental approach to diacritics. They might cause confusion (or not — I'm also mostly a monolingual English speaker), but this is a playful display font after all and it's great to see you push the cutting edge! I wouldn't have guessed the umlaut (is that what you mean by diaeresis, Tgray?) was a neck wound, but that's also brilliant. Any way to give em that archetypal trickle of blood without losing it? I know there must be other iconography you can draw on (there's of course the bat with spread wings — or one hanging upside down off the bottom of the letterform — which might work well for the carons if it fits in your grid)... but I guess I'm feeling kinda rusty on vampire lore...lol :) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:13:21 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1653 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1654 sorry, that wasn't very clear. bat with wings spread up = caron bat hanging off letter = cedilla? Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:17:44 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1654 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1655 Ok, one more thought and I promise I'll be brief. I like how with the “I” and “L” you connected the above, admittedly tilde-ish swashy bit with the vertical stroke on the left side of those characters. What happens if you try this approach with the others? Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:28:19 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1655 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1672 Gee thanks! :D Diaresis is the same as umlaut (well, their usage is different but the character itself is identical for both). Should I have blood coming out of it? I did actually do that with the semicolon, but it's hard to do a blood drop that looks good. I'll think about it... I can't believe I forgot about the bat! Thanks for reminding. Then I'm also planning on putting actual horns on the Vietnamese letters that have the horn diacritic. The connecting line on the I and L was something that kinda happened because those two letters are so thin. But that's a great idea you had, maybe people won't mistake that ornament for ~ then. I'll try it... Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:39:15 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1672 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1673 Oh, one thing: I see that some people have already downloaded the font, even though it's not finished yet, which is kinda a shame. I'm still trying out what space there should be between characters, so the whole font is unconsistent and so, so please don't download it quite yet. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:46:21 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1673 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1685 I like what you did to the A. I think this will have a very unifying effect if you apply the same connection to all the caps. As for perfecting the display metrics — just know they don't actually apply to the truetype files we can download. Yes, you can polish how the font displays on fontstruct by using the ”kerning trick” which I believe you have discovered (shifting characters to the right in the fontstructor will increase the space between this character and the previous character in all display modes). But upon downloading, all these rough metrics are tossed out for a default one-brick setting. It’s up to the user to properly kern the font in each instance it is used (for those of us who can). Have fun with the bats! :) Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:20:09 -0700 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/66382#1685