Just wanted to also let everyone know there I documented a new, simplified, highly accessible method for brick stacking here.

Maybe it also has to do with getting used to it. I just started liking its aliased look actually, which works much better now than before :-)

Great tip with the brick replacement, didn’t know you can do that. Now all I need is the ability to rotate and mirror a selection ;-)

@Christophe
I see what you mean. That’s unfortunate (I really love Postcode), but I do think the new version will be better in 99% of cases. It’s a shame there isn’t a finer degree of control over the antialiasing in Photoshop.
It would be interesting to see a version of Postcode with the curved shapes replaced with something else, like the tetris-like corners (near the bottom of the All Bricks palette before the triangles) or the smaller set of curved corners — This might give you some different antialiasing options. You can make such a version quite easily using the Clone button, and the brick-swapping technique.

@San
There isn’t such an option available at the moment although williaum has documented an ingenious hack for this (see his comment lower down). It’s not officially recommended, endorsed or supported though ;-)

Any chance of adding an option where we can put two different bricks in the same square? Or that is already available and it is just that I don’t know how to do so?

Anyway…, again, great idea!

Best, San :)

I have only done one font yet. With the newly downloaded font, I can get rid of the negative tracking, which is great.

Something strange happens to the font sizes and rendering appearance, though. The font worked best with 3 sizes before: 32, 64 and 128px. The whole thing seems to be shifted now: when I set text in 32px with the old version of the font, I now need to set it in 64px to achieve the same dimensions and so forth.

The font now works better in the smallest size (64px) and also with anti-aliasing turned off. But in 128px size (former 64px), it looks more blurred with whatever anti-aliasing method I use (in Photoshop). I definitely prefer the old version here from a graphical perspective. It’s sharper and the “circle holes” of the “perforation” (also in 1/4 and 1/2) are bigger and more defined.

This, as I mentioned, might sound a bit obsolete for RealTypographers™, and I know this is no support line here, but I wanted to mention it anyway. The font I did needs some explanation, which I added to the description field but now it’s not really correct anymore. I just don’t know what recommendations to give now, since I could not achieve an output comparable to how it was before.

This is how it looks with the old version of the font. And here’s an example of the new version of the font (anti-alias settings are exactly the same, just had to move the text 2px to the right overall).

Thank you and have a great rest of the day.

About the old kerning trick making it through the mortar phase – does this mean that default metrics for each letter can be calibrated (with one-brick precision) by shifting the characters left or right relative to the left side bearing? Or does Font Mortar only pay attention to when we shift to the left of the left side bearing as in those examples?

Thanks again!