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by p2pnut


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Based on an idea from the Ent-wife it took a long time to arrive ... but then Ents are never hasty ... hhrrrrrmmmmnnnnhhhhh ... no, never hasty.
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70 characters, 165 downloads
Created:
Mon, 13th July, 11:39 PM 2009
Last Edit:
Fri, 30th October, 12:22 PM 2009
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http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/203081
Tags:
Trees, Ents, Tolkien, Decorative, P2pnut
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Discussion

p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 25th July, 2009

Hope it meets with Frodo7's approval :)

aphoria
aphoria Sat, 25th July, 2009

Holy crap! This is awesome.

shasta
shasta Sat, 25th July, 2009

incredible! so beautifully made... the little branches with the leaves, the seamless connection with the roots, the gnarled yet perfectly readable look - chapeau! this would work perfectly on the cover of a fantasy book/fairy tale.
my only suggestion would be to copy all the letters on the lowercase without the connecting roots (sometimes you might not want them), and to make a space-wide connecting root on the underscore so you can let seperate words grow together...

thalamic
thalamic Sat, 25th July, 2009

Wow. I'm floored.

If this isn't proof of FontStruct's greatness and your mastery of said FontStruct, I don't know what is.

djnippa
djnippa Sat, 25th July, 2009

Tree-mendous.

Reminds me of the film Sleepy Hollow by Tim Burton featuring Johnny Depp. The headless horseman's twisted tree. Very mystical.

p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 25th July, 2009

Thanks for the comments. They mean a lot coming from people who actually know what they are talking about :)

shasta - I have de-rooted all the letters and placed them on the lower case ... hadn't realised how many brick-stacks I had done on the original till I started copying! I will follow up on the connecting root underscore idea soon.

funk_king
funk_king Sat, 25th July, 2009

this is great. much character and nuance. and great technique. interesting i think the cases should be switched - not that it matters - especially with all the brickstacking :) but i think lc as connected would flow better visually and have uc as non-rooted. like i said - not that it matters, you only have to switch uc and lc to get the same effect :) and still magnificent.

djnippa
djnippa Sat, 25th July, 2009

Spacing on E needs to be sorted out.

geneus1
geneus1 Sat, 25th July, 2009

What a treet!

Great attention to detail. Love the overlapping branches.

p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 25th July, 2009

@nippa - cheers ... have checked all the spacing again.

@funk_king - I'm a gibbering wreck at the mere thought of transposing the lc and uc :)

shasta
shasta Sat, 25th July, 2009

Now that's what I call efficiency. Pretty fast job on the derooting! And a good one too... The sample text looks beautiful like this, I think I even start to see some poetic deeper truth of nature behind a fox jumping over a dog when it's written like this. ;)
Are you a gibbering wreck at the mere thought of making numerals too? ;)

p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 25th July, 2009

n n n n numerals?

I might give them a go before too long ... I may even include a few punction glyphs sometime.

In the meantime, I also want to add lower-case to my Alphabox family (mustn't ignore the little ones). I have been trying to find out whether it is possible to cut & paste from one font to another ... otherwise I will have to create a fresh lc for each variation. It's not that I am too lazy to do so, it's just that it seems such a long-winded way of doing it.

djnippa
djnippa Sun, 26th July, 2009

Before doing other variations.
I find it's best to complete a font as fully as possible - numerals, punctuation, European Set, Spacing, Alternatives, Tweaking, and more tweaking. Only when I'm 100% sure it's complete do I then decide to do clones. Otherwise it's a nightmare. :-)

p2pnut
p2pnut Sun, 26th July, 2009

All part of the learning curve I guess. I'll remember your sage advice next time

aphoria
aphoria Sun, 26th July, 2009

nippa has a good point. There is no copy-and-paste between fonts, unfortunately.

p2pnut
p2pnut Sun, 26th July, 2009

I wonder if that would be a possibility for a future version of FS?

Frodo7
Frodo7 Sun, 26th July, 2009

Very tree-ish indeed.

"Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold;"

JRRT gives us inspiration in many ways.

gferreira
gferreira Mon, 27th July, 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Entrees” is now a Top Pick.

gferreira
gferreira Mon, 27th July, 2009

Fantastic work!

Regarding copy&paste between fonts: I agree this would be a great feature to have.

jenniferparsons31
jenniferparsons31 Mon, 27th July, 2009

Incredible font! Just what I was looking for!

gferreira
gferreira Fri, 31st July, 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Entrees” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

KaliDava
KaliDava Fri, 31st July, 2009

gorgeous! I love this font :)

Hirkani
Hirkani Tue, 4th August, 2009

Awesome, great work!

jinx
jinx Wed, 5th August, 2009

WOW!! This is by far my favorite font. Awesome!

DaveFlash
DaveFlash Mon, 10th August, 2009

Holy mother of cricket, that's a MIGHTY NICE FONT YOU HAVE THERE!!! I'll do, do, do, so, do, so, love it!

Emiguin10
Emiguin10 Sun, 16th August, 2009

Three words:
Best Font Ever.
Thank you for sharing! :D

aaaalllleeeexxxx
aaaalllleeeexxxx Fri, 4th September, 2009

This font is a good one. From its outstanding design, to its humerous name(Entrees--enTREES). This font is very enjoyable. But tell me: what trees are these, and what inspired you, p2pnut, to make this?

p2pnut
p2pnut Fri, 4th September, 2009

@aaaalllleeeexxxx: The idea came from the Ents (especially Treebeard) from The Lord Of The Rings. The trees are just fantasy.

gferreira
gferreira Fri, 23rd October, 2009

I see the numbers coming... nice! :-)

Frodo7
Frodo7 Sat, 24th October, 2009

Beautiful numbers. This font is a pinnacle of fontstructing.

p2pnut
p2pnut Sun, 25th October, 2009

Well, I think that's it for now - hope the additions make it a tad more useable.

Well, I think that's it for now - hope the additions make it a tad more useable. <br/> <br/>
gferreira
gferreira Thu, 24th December, 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “RM Entrees” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

juri
juri Thu, 7th January, 5:19 PM

it so cool,thank