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by cayo


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Description:
This my recreation of my own handwriting fontstructed with a vertical line/stripe pattern (I know it's bad calligraphy, but don't tell Claude Dieterich I did it, please).
I used a fountain pen 1.1mm stroke to get my samples written down in order to have a basis.
My UC leans slightly to the left and my lc to the right; must be the graffiti influence from way back in the day. No wonder I only type nowadays...

13.09.09 alternative s added.
located instead of the long s → Unicode:017f (Alt + 0383)

14.09.09 More Latin Diacritics added.
Stats:
165 characters, 78 downloads
Created:
Sun, 6th September, 12:54 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Wed, 11th November, 6:50 AM 2009
Permalink:
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/222936
Tags:
Script, Handwriting, Scanned, Stripes, Lines, Nib, Fountain Pen
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Discussion

Frodo7
Frodo7 Thu, 10th September, 12:02 AM

Thank you for sharing this. This is very cool. And nice penmanship too. 10/10

cayo
cayo Thu, 10th September, 12:09 AM

Amar es compartir!
Gracias, Señor Bolsón.

jinx
jinx Thu, 10th September, 12:09 AM

Very nice. Very cool. Great job. Beautiful!! :) 10/10

jinx
jinx Thu, 10th September, 12:11 AM

Woah! I wonder why it posted three times? Sorry :{

Frodo7
Frodo7 Thu, 10th September, 12:21 AM

@cayo:"Señor Bolsón". I like that:))

Meanwhile jinx having some trouble with the system (or is it just a déjà vu?) forgot to cast his/her vote.

cayo
cayo Thu, 10th September, 1:02 AM

@jinx thx & no worries, I'll hide them.
déjà vu must be :D

@Frodo7 así lo llaman en la versión castellana.

funk_king
funk_king Thu, 10th September, 1:11 AM

very stylish with lots of sophistication and flair. original and expertly crafted. i like :)

djnippa
djnippa Thu, 10th September, 1:24 AM

WOW!
It reads, flows and works like a dream. 10

cayo
cayo Thu, 10th September, 1:31 AM

Thank you guys.
Your comments are much appreciated.
I'm going to add some ligatures for the o, v and t pretty soon, but now my neck hurts & I need some rest.
I'm glad you like it :)

funk_king
funk_king Thu, 10th September, 1:43 AM

oh, you need some um...rest? oh right :)

p2pnut
p2pnut Thu, 10th September, 3:09 AM

Nice hanwriting - well 'structed :)

Stewf
Stewf Thu, 10th September, 4:42 AM

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

jmarquez
jmarquez Thu, 10th September, 9:14 AM

Really Cool!

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Thu, 10th September, 11:05 AM

I love it!

afrojet
afrojet Thu, 10th September, 3:21 PM

Really nice Cayo. I think you chose wisely to use the vertical line treatment instead of bricking the entire glyph. The curves turn out much smoother this way.

aphoria
aphoria Thu, 10th September, 4:43 PM

Very nice. I love your A and g.

cayo
cayo Thu, 10th September, 8:41 PM

:) I'm stoked all this meticulous brick pushing ended up with so many nice comments. Thanks! Totally worth the effort.

@funk_king I was staring too close at my screen for too long, but I'm recovered after sleeping some 12 hours. Now I'm good as new.

@p2pnut This is a very stylized version of my handwriting. It usually ends up looking like backwards arabian script because of my fast (and probably not readable) writing technique.

@Stewf thanks for the pink beauty mark.

@afrojet I used it to gain advantage of round endings to render some "blur" to the curved line: sometimes with half circle bricks, sometimes the half circle/half square one. Curves get smooth, but the diagonals still stagger. I can't always win... sigh!

@aphoria the A was my first UC to be designed and the last to be aproved: I made so many changes to it after developing the rest, but I'm very happy with the end result.

igorrossi
igorrossi Fri, 11th September, 10:37 AM

Amazing ! Very graceful and smooth. 10/10.

SquarePeg
SquarePeg Sun, 13th September, 5:17 PM

This is really great, cayo. Congratulations!

cayo
cayo Mon, 14th September, 8:17 AM

Thank you both. That's very kind of yourselves.

I added an alternative s instead of the long s
→ Unicode 017f (Alt + 0383)
And I also added more latin diacritics.

I think I might clone this one for ligatures: there's too many of them to make to just use some other empty glyph's position that I rather put them all together in another FS's lc & UC, so they would be easily used.

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Mon, 14th September, 1:09 PM

Yep, that´s a real Top Pick. One of the most soulful Fontstructions ever, I think.

funk_king
funk_king Mon, 14th September, 2:23 PM

and one of the most sexiest too ;)

thalamic
thalamic Tue, 15th September, 3:59 PM

You make it look so effortless. Excellent rendition.

cayo
cayo Tue, 15th September, 9:57 PM

Thank you very much, guys!
Those are very kind words.

@thalamic it might look effortless, but just by the looks. It was (literally) a pain in the neck to smooth it out selecting the right brick & line length, but totally worth it.

aaaalllleeeexxxx
aaaalllleeeexxxx Tue, 15th September, 10:19 PM

How long did it take you to make this? Wow!

cayo
cayo Wed, 16th September, 3:26 AM

It took me an afternoon just for the vowels...

darkseeid
darkseeid Mon, 21st September, 8:51 AM

nice writing style ! original typos !5/5

shasta
shasta Mon, 26th October, 1:01 AM

Have I really not commented on this one yet? Well... I love it! Great way of making a handwritten font look smooth and organic while avoiding fontstructs restrictions in one of the most elegant ways I've seen here so far... Trabajo excelente!
If you allow I'd like to fontstruct my own handwriting based on this concept (giving you the due credits of course). Not that this would come anytime very soon, but I've always wanted to digitalize my own dreadful scrawl and this would definitely be the way I'd like to do it on fontstruct...:)

cayo
cayo Wed, 11th November, 1:32 AM

Thank you, Darkseeid und Danke Schön, Shasta. Sorry I have not replied earlier but I really want to get at least the two basic latin rows finished on this one. I had seen Thals findings and was stoked to see a lot of FSions going more exposed, but look what Frodo7 found in the net.
They have my font, I have their sampler!
yeah! keep on rocking in the free world!!!

Thank you, Darkseeid und Danke Schön, Shasta. Sorry I have not replied earlier but I really want to get at least the two basic latin rows finished on this one. I had seen Thals findings and was stoked to see a lot of FSions going more exposed, but look what Frodo7 found in the net. <br/>They have my font, I have their sampler! <br/>yeah! keep on rocking in the free world!!!