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Type Battle! Week 3 (1/30)
Posted by Jared Benson in
30 Jan 2006 — 8:44am
30 Jan 2006 — 8:44am
TYPE BATTLE: Week 3 (30 Jan)
Here's your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May be the best designer win.
Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle03
Requirements:
- Size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and white only
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge.
// THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
// Using only pixels, design at least 10 characters of a triline font.
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30 Jan 2006 — 11:21am
I've got a slow Monday going (for a change)... He's my first attempt - eleven characters.
30 Jan 2006 — 11:27am
So that is what triline means. Pretty obvious I guess. Am I the only one getting an empty wiki entry on that link?
30 Jan 2006 — 11:35am
That's really fun, Grant.
30 Jan 2006 — 11:46am
How's this?
30 Jan 2006 — 1:02pm
I'm a big fan of that 'S' in Grant's design. It looks springy.
30 Jan 2006 — 1:41pm
I've never really done pixel fonts so bear with me...this is kind of a WIP:
30 Jan 2006 — 4:13pm
None of you are ready for the thing I've got up my sleeve!
30 Jan 2006 — 5:12pm
Just a quick doodle. Geometrical design, Greek caps.
30 Jan 2006 — 5:53pm
Thanks Chesh.
Thanks Lauren. I think my cap N is too wide and not springy enough.
Dan, I love how yours looks like it's made of folded ribbon.
Solid stuff so far...
Joe, you're such a tease.
30 Jan 2006 — 6:02pm
If you're posting enlarged specimens, be sure to show it at 100%!
30 Jan 2006 — 6:06pm
Dan, that is supa-fresh. The folded ribbon thing is unexpected, and just cool.
30 Jan 2006 — 7:12pm
30 Jan 2006 — 9:46pm
Lovely lowercase k, Dan!
31 Jan 2006 — 8:05am
This is kind of bland, but I've never tried to create anything like this before, so I wanted to put something together.
Duncan
31 Jan 2006 — 9:07am
No italics?
31 Jan 2006 — 9:39am
No italics?
Darn! That sounds there like a chal-lenge!
I'm on it… will post soon, maybe tomorrow, Central European Time…
31 Jan 2006 — 9:43am
Where is Hrant? Even with a new baby, he should be all over this :-D
Maybe the black and white only scared him away, as it could be construed to prevent the use of gray???
Come on, though! Where's Mana Triline?
31 Jan 2006 — 9:45am
Anyone who could successfully pull-off a combination of this with week 1's challenge (i.e., a triline pixel font that was also a slab serif blackletter) would win my undying respect. Hell, I'd pay for that to be turned into a font!
31 Jan 2006 — 10:05am
...And don't forget the swash characters!
31 Jan 2006 — 10:23am
Hi, here's my first attempt at anything like this (also my first post to the board of anything I've made). Enjoy.
31 Jan 2006 — 12:57pm
Nice stuff everybody... Josh, nice to see a very angular triline. Kind of a nice breakaway from the usual Bauhaus-style triline.
Earlier I wrote: None of you are ready for the thing I’ve got up my sleeve!
Nevermind. It's sucking wind at this point. I was trying to do a constructivist-inspired triline in bitmap, but it's awful. =)
31 Jan 2006 — 1:39pm
You mean, something like this?
31 Jan 2006 — 1:44pm
Revised entry:
31 Jan 2006 — 2:45pm
David, scale it down to actual size please... =)
31 Jan 2006 — 3:00pm
I guess I didn't make it right...I just used the default grid in Photoshop and went at it. My file is at work so I'll have to figure it out tomorrow. How is everyone else going about this? Hmm looks like I should've just changed the grid to pixels. Doh! I'll repost tomorrow.
31 Jan 2006 — 3:23pm
Tim, minimum requirement is 10 characters, keep on drawing!
*edit* Oops, I didn't see your first entry!
David, yes, you'll want to work in individual pixels.
31 Jan 2006 — 5:02pm
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nc
31 Jan 2006 — 5:58pm
Here is a rush job.
31 Jan 2006 — 9:37pm
Take no prisoners!
31 Jan 2006 — 9:41pm
31 Jan 2006 — 11:05pm
Zara! Citadel!
Those last 3 and Grant's are tops.
Someone call Miguel into the ring!
(Or is that too scary?)
31 Jan 2006 — 11:13pm
Someone call Miguel into the ring!
(Or is that too scary?)
Not scary, exciting!
31 Jan 2006 — 11:44pm
oh.my.god, you guys. These are simply, beautifully, wonderfully awesome. I bow down before you. They are all just so goddam great. and i can't decide which l love the most ... But Jared's thrift rodeo is right up there, as is Zara's alphapixels + pleasing pixels, and Tim's Atoma, and dan's ansichbarkeit, and grant's insolvency ... and and and ...
-marian
1 Feb 2006 — 12:23am
Tim, that Blackletter is a good start. Now try making that triline a real mix blackletter AND slab, and show more characters ;-)
Here is my italic attempt.
Zara, that last pic of yours is really nice.
1 Feb 2006 — 12:31am
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1 Feb 2006 — 2:14am
Jürgen Weltin
1 Feb 2006 — 2:19am
Here's a more complete take on Dan's idea.
Now even slabbier, and with a silly swash character just for the sake of it.
1 Feb 2006 — 2:20am
Kevin, I'm liking that blackletter…
Steve, both of your rock, but the FERTZLIUPH would roch herder if you wouldn't close the endings off, i.e., if thez weould be open like in your second design… I think that you could still keep the tapering effect somehow…
1 Feb 2006 — 2:34am
Tim, the whole rason that the slab-blackletter challenge was so hard was because in most blackletter designs, the pen is held at a 45-degree angle (or somewhere around there), while slab serif typically have thick rectangular serifs at 90-degree angles, reinforcing baseline, x-height, etc. You're blackletter looks sweet, ahd has heavy serifs, but they aren't slab serifs. To make a blackletter a slab serif, you have to break it a little bit, so it isn't blackletter anymore.
1 Feb 2006 — 5:03am
1 Feb 2006 — 5:49am
Dan is right that the slab serif idea loses some of its characteristic appeal if you tilt the slabs to conform with the diagonal axis.
Soo.... Something more challenging here:
1 Feb 2006 — 5:57am
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1 Feb 2006 — 6:00am
That is starting to look really interesting.
1 Feb 2006 — 7:06am
Now we're cooking with pixels. Fantastic work everyone.
Zara, your flourishy sample has me giddy. Calligraphic without being too flowery. Jared, that woodtype variation blows my socks off. Woof! And the italic styles showing up are killer...
Here's another one trying to get as small as possible.
1 Feb 2006 — 9:02am
Here's the actual size post...sorry about the earlier ones :-)
1 Feb 2006 — 9:56am
1 Feb 2006 — 9:59am
The blackletter styles are great! Steve, very nice stuff, but must be black and white! I know, it's hard… your "fertzliuph" is wonderful.
Marian, I'm tickled pink that I've made it onto your list, and I just said "tickled pink" for the very first time. I could imagine this might be something you'd be very good at - please join in on the fun!
Grant, I'm so glad I could make you giddy. I had to laugh when I finished the curly one, because it (unintentionally) looks just like the triline version of my last, well, only pixel font.
1 Feb 2006 — 10:13am
The last version of the blackletter style was too shy, here's a much more stylized one:
..and I'm a fan of Rodeo and Alphapixels, too!