FontStruct | FontStruction Feed: ariapenciroman

Comment from kix

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

Comment from thalamic

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

So this is what you have been doing all this time. Well, what can I say but...it's superb! Every single character is gorgeous. Your skill, creativity, and daring grows with each new font. Very admirable. An 11.

Comment from funk_king

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

excellent.

Comment from intaglio

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

I must find a new word to replace wow. The "chalk" effect looks magnificent in your reverse example. As thalamic says, 11 out of 10. Surely we need a "font of the year" category.

Comment from guentersen

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

brilliant!

Comment from alexfulton

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

Kix, that's really impressive. It seems an hand-drawn font in every piece of letter. Wonderful!

Comment from afrojet

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

Although everyone might not agree about Arial and Times New Roman being the "two most important fonts of all western typefaces", I think we can all agree that you've created something incredible here, Kix. In the words of Tim and Eric, "Great Job!".

Comment from kix

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

thanks all :) i really had fun doing this. @afrojet: arial and times new roman were indeed very important for me, but i agree with you. i changed that :) cheers. i'll start "drawing" upper case.

Comment from geneus1

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

OMG KIX! Great Job, Awesome Show! Can't wait to see the rest of it! Outstanding!

Comment from sliveress

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

Words fail me. This is awesome. Fantastic job!

Comment from saberrider

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

it's always such a nice contrast seeing someone throwing all the modular typface rules over board compared to all the 1/4 circles and 45 degree lines. it's absolutely fantastic.

Comment from Axel Leyer

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

WOW! Absolutly georgeus typeface, congratulations... KEEP ON WORKING!!

Comment from Érico Lebedenco

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

Incredible work! Good use of the irregularities.

Comment from Stewf

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

The new Featured FontStruction.

Comment from funk_king

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

dude, you're #1 with a bullet! congrats.

Comment from nemoorange

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

Jebus. That's a lot of bricks.

Comment from saberrider

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

i will have to ask him something in german because i guess it's his mothertongue and it's mine as well darf ich fragen ob du beruflich im bereich typographie tätig bist? deine schriften sind ja ausnahmslos gut und zeugen von viel erfahrung/know-how

Comment from

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

Arial, Times New Roman I agree

Comment from JH34

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

When can check this fontstruction with 52 characters (26 lowercase letters and 26 uppercase letters)

Comment from kix

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

thank you all so much. featured fontsrtuction?!?!! i feel so honoured. thanks stewf, thx fonstruct team. i cannot believe it! kix on the index page! :D i was on a festival this weekend, but as soon as im sober i'll finish this baby. @saberrider: ich ab mal 4 jahre design studiert. dann hat mich die studiengebühr da raus gekickt! seitdem jobbe ich alles mögliche. aber ich wünschte ich bekäme die chance irgendwann mal im bereich typo mein geld zu verdienen... ich liebe buchstaben schon immer. Typo in jeder form (graffiti, kalligrafie, posterkunst, streetart oder was auch immer)ist einfach mein ding. kannst aber auch gern mal hier reinschaun. enjoy! @JH34: wtf? ;P

Comment from patricknas

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

trully a great one, really impressive!! patrick

Comment from autonomouse

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

Wow, this is amazing! Just noticed there's nothing past K in capitals.. =p. Lovely =]

Comment from Raketentim

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

awesome!

Comment from kix

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

Thanks again. I finished the work on Upper and lower case plus ".". i actually wanted to add some more symbols and maybe numerals, but it's already TOO big in size. i had several errors downloading this, when it had more characters in it. so i had to erase some glyphs... the actual size of this is 56,5kb... in comparison geneus1's Arkham Bloodletters is 64,4kb big and it was no problem to download... i don't get it :P cheers kix

Comment from Stewf

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

Rob Meek might correct me, but I believe it is not so much the file size but the number of bricks that affects the Font Mortar's ability to generate a font.

Comment from geneus1

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

Astounding, kix. :-D In regards to file sizes, the Bloodletters font is puny in comparison to ariapenciroman. It's file size is only large because of the complexity of translating intersecting curves and circles into their mathematical equivalents. If ariapenciroman used circles, it would easily be over 100KB. The Bloodletters gridspace is about 25x15 which covers an area of about 375 bricks per glyph. The ariapenciroman gridspace is about 75x50, which covers an area of about 3,750 bricks! Quite possibly one of the largest fontstructions ever! Whew! I guess we'll have to trust in Rob to expand the Font Generator's brick array once again.

Comment from intaglio

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

Moore's flaw.

Comment from kix

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

like always. you (intaglio) are impossible to understand for a european. i thought i barely know how to speak "american" english, but you guy are toooooo far out. so whoever moore is... you did a flaw

Comment from intaglio

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

Sorry, just me being a smart-alec. Rob Meek created a monster when he made FontStruct. Now he's got all these crazy FontNerds chasing him, gullets demanding more worms. I, among others, created gigantic files that couldn't be saved properly which led to a techy-upgrade, which facilitated even bigger ball-breaking FontStructions as we all set about using FontStruct in ways never originally envisioned, probably. Hence, a vivid demonstration of enslavement to Moore's Law; hence, Moore's Flaw. Sorry. Can't help it.

Comment from Stalker

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

I think I could say that this one is professional. Stylish shape, good intervals, interesting idea, innovative technique. My rating is 10. You are the winner bro.

Comment from Harmonic Sonic

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

Hey, Kix - I've got kind of a question, and this seems like the best place to voice it. I'm new to this, and I've tried making a couple high-rez fonts, but when I press the spacebar, the space always ends up being really tiny. Is there a way to fix that?

Comment from fontsy54

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

Nice font! I'm a newbie here; trying to learn and be unique! How the heck did you do that?? Very cool.

Comment from kix

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

just take every square you place as a pixel. thats all the secret :) @harmonic sonic: thats the same for the spacebar. logically the space you create with the spacebar is only about 1-3 pixels...

Comment from saberrider

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

Danke für die Antwort. Ich hab eine Ausbildung zum GTA gemacht und bin jetzt im 3. Semester Kommunikationsdesign. Typographie liegt mir auch sehr am Herzen. Bin nach wie vor begeistert von deiner Schrift. Das einzige was ich anmerken würde ist, dass die Arial zu Prominent im Titel und der Beschreibung vorkommt. Schliesslich ist Arial nur ein Plagiat der Helvetica und hat so eine schöne Schrift garnicht verdient ;)

Comment from kix

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

cool! wo studierst du? und zur schrift: das mit der namensgebung und helvetica und so wusste ich noch gar nich :) schräg... und mit dem namen bin ich eh nich so zufrieden. dachte nich im traum, daß die kleine sau SOOOO einschlägt! 1000 downloads geknackt.. is schon n geiles gefühl. ich glaub ich kann die schrift jetz auf keinen fall umbenennen, aber wenn dann würd ich sie in "precambrian" umtaufen. so heisst das album von THE OCEAN, daß ich dabei gehört hab. danke

Comment from thepillow

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

over the top! i give it an 11

Comment from CaptianOlimar

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

there ae no nubers. are you working on them?

Comment from clecia

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

Very nice work ;))))

Comment from clecia

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

Very nice work ;))))

Comment from kix

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

there are no numbers because i'm afraid of editing it too big in size. if it gets too big it won't be downloadable any more. maybe i do a symbols&numbers set one day...

Comment from caseycastille

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

What can I say about this that hasn't already been said? Truly fabulous. I love the attention to detail that successfully renders something "handwritten" out of such a structured medium. You deserve a laurel wreath for this one!

Comment from kangaroo_mara

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

love this font!!!! how do you do it? it's amazing! personally i think helvetica is the most important font but that's just me. but i still LOVE this font

Comment from angelal

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

I love this font - thank you. It is nice to see something "handmade' amongst all the "Digital" design out there. 10/10!

Comment from hellotheresa

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

You did a great job, the white on black image replicates chalk well and having it just as black text makes it look hand drawn in pencil.

Comment from shasta

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

great job, without any doubt. beautiful characters that really show your typography skills, great scetchy style, impressive consistency... it might just about be the most professional looking fontstruction. chapeau for this, great work, kix! still, i think this might be a good point to talk about the limits of this application. even though this font looks great in the preview, i'd probably never use it on any print or web design, just because it's pixelated and will never look truly smooth. don't get me wrong: there's no way kix could have done this better - as a fontstruction. and well, the main reason why we're all building our fonts here is (apart from the fact that it's great fun, of course) that we can't handle professional font building software (or well, just can't afford them either...;P). on though i might just soon get crucified as the big enemy of innovation, i think using a huge number of bricks to get somewhere close to a smooth appearence will at the most bring you to a concept scetch of a font that would have to be produced in a vector-based font software to actually be really useable... and then it might just be more efficient to invest the undoubtedly considerable amount of time you put into fontstructing it into learning to work with the real fontdesign software. but then maybe it just pisses me off to see such a great font and not to be able to print it in poster size...;) wie dem auch sei, trotzdem eine wunderschöne schrift, und verdientermassen die nummer eins auf dieser seite...:) grüsse aus der schweiz!

Comment from Rockycrox

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

This font is truly amazing! Compared to my fonts, it's, like, a god.

Comment from kix

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

haha. thank you. "praise the font" :) don't be so hard on ya. i think some of you fonts seem to be a good start! just play

Comment from namroud

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

Love it. Great work.

Comment from Emil97

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

Wow! Really nice! I'm lookin' forward for the symbols!

Comment from kingpin

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

i like you`re typographi

Comment from Su-chan

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

Thank you, it's really great! ;)

Comment from cam.ill

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

hey chef. wirklich gelungene typo, besonders die tropfenform bei g, j... gefällt mir sehr. hab versucht, auf dein myspace zu kommen, da seh ich aber auf firefox nur den background, sodass ich nichtmal den addme button finden konnte:) meins ist: www.myspace.com/cam_ill vielleicht könnten wir ja in zukunft mal zusammn was auf beton typographieren.. schönen abend und grüsse aus hot india.

Comment from cutielicouso9

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

can this be use in adobe photoshop?

Comment from kix

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

@cam.ill: mein code ist ein wenig strange auf myspace. ist aber alles da. nur halt in die breite und tiefe gezogen... fands irgendwie cool, deswegen auch nie geändert. das ist aber nur in firefox so. in IE sieht se normal aus. graffiti mach ich eigentlich nur noch auf papier... das war früher :) @cutielicouso9: sure you can. just paste the ttf-file you downloaded into WINDOWS' font folder and PS will find it. enjoy!

Comment from WickedTwilight49

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

hey, maybe, since you are worried about the file being too big, could you make a whole new font file for the numbers? i LOVE this...must've taken forever! :) good work

Comment from kix

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

the new spacing features are exactly what was missing to make this perfect. now i fixed several spacings PLUS finally edited the space button, which was way to small for this huge fontstruction. cheers

Comment from hinachan

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

Coolest chalk/pencil font evver!

Comment from kix

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

I made picture with about 135 of my favorite glyphs done on this website. It's wonderful to see how different all the fontstructions are. I uploaded this to flickr.com and added this to the fontstruct group, you should join :) Click here to get to the full size!!!

Comment from marciovinicius

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

"Font Generation error Connection refused" I can't download it... :(

Comment from xariseto

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

thank you !!!! ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ !!!! :) :) :)

Comment from alanpf

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

Beautiful.

Comment from Krad34

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

should this be 1.47 Kb? the downloads on this site seem to all be seriously messed up

Comment from Hevast636

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

This is absolutely beautiful. How you pulled it off is a mystery... but this is one of the best fonts on the site.

Comment from prototype

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

I will "piss" on you, too. But it's "Thanks" only.

Comment from p2pnut

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

Just came across this (while cruising the site) ... it's amazing

Comment from MartinLarsson

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

As a suppose you know. When typing two j:s after each other (jjjj), the letters overlap. But how often do you have two j:s... Really great font. I want the full character set!