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New font design--thoughts, takers?
Hi all, I just scribbled down a new (to me, at least) typeface design and, well, I'm not a font designer by profession so I'm posting it here if anyone wants to have a go at it. For future reference, I hereby relinquish all rights to it.
It's all angles, so I'm tentatively calling it Angul (feel free to rename). The inspiration was: I've been handwriting a lot of numbers in cramped spaces at work, and my 3 has come to look like a backwards uppercase Sigma, so I went from there and got a whole alphanumeric set.
Cheers,
Yawar
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27 Dec 2009 — 12:53am
Looks very handy for those in a hurry and/or unable to write on a flat surface.
There's a site that features similar writing systems. Check this out if you like: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/conscripts.htm
27 Dec 2009 — 4:23am
Here it is! ;-)
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/272037
That's just a quick & dirty job using a rather small grid (5x8 essentially).
That said, (tri)angular scripts are a pretty common constrain feature. Either out of necessity (see runes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet) or design choiche (see Def Leppard: http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/images/stories/concerts/2008%20SWEDENROC...).
27 Dec 2009 — 7:04am
@Strabismus: Interesting link for sure! I knew of a runic numeral system called Birkana and Tolkien's Elvish script, but had no idea there were so many others.
@riccard0: Wow, that was fast! Did you use something like FontForge or a specialised system (or both)? I have some interesting tweaks I'd like to try....
Cheers,
Yawar
27 Dec 2009 — 7:18am
I just stacked bricks using Fontstruct (http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/).
You can "clone" and or download it and tweak it at your own will using Fontstruct or any other tool you like.
27 Dec 2009 — 12:55pm
I think most type designers have a sketch like this from their early days sitting around gathering dust in the flat file somewhere.
27 Dec 2009 — 1:27pm
I think most type designers have a sketch like this from their early days sitting around gathering dust in the flat file somewhere.
I drew a least a hundred variants of this style during art school crits.
27 Dec 2009 — 8:02pm
A greatly inspiring book is 4000 Alphabets & Letter Motifs by Graham Leslie McCallum (ISBN: 9780713490602). It truly opens one's eyes to the many shapes and forms that letters in our alphabet can take. Check it out!
27 Dec 2009 — 8:48pm
How did I miss that book? It looks great!