"Shine font" inspired by the 2005 CGI-animated film "Robots".

Posted by Broc T. Glover in

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5 Apr 2011 — 4:40am

Hi everyone!

I recently finished this font (which I've named Shine) based on a typeface briefly seen in the 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios animated movie 'Robots.' I assumed the font was only made for the two phrases seen in the film and was not rendered as a complete character set. Using a few screen shots from the movie I proceeded to draw them all by hand. Yes, on paper! Having to design about half the characters myself. Then scanned them and used my rather primitive (but still much loved) HP Image Zone program to complete them.

Note: a better resolution image of the character map can be found here:
http://typophile.com/node/94121

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riccard0
5 Apr 2011 — 5:10am

Nice. I would've added some dots to numerals too.

Broc T. Glover
22 Jun 2012 — 1:51am

Actually I did try that. But decided to leave the numbers without dots mainly because the "g" and "9" would have looked the same. I didn't want to have so many dots that it became overwhelming so put them within the letters only.

Renko
8 Apr 2011 — 1:54am

Shouldn’t this thread be moved to this board, especially this one?.

Broc T. Glover
8 Apr 2011 — 3:22am

Done. I wasn't sure which forum to post it in. Thanks :o)

riccard0
9 Apr 2011 — 3:42am

Do you plan an uppercase? Otherwise, maybe old style numerals would be a better choice.

By the way, have you see this?
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/cheapprofonts/geometry-soft-pro/

Broc T. Glover
22 Jun 2012 — 1:47am

I hadn't planned an upper case but I suppose it's feasable.

Here are the numerals with dots

Being a complete newbie to drawing fonts I'm not sure what you mean by "old style numerals." Could you please explain? Are the numerals I have a bit too large as compared to the letters?

Your opinions are always welcome and appreciated!

Thanks

Broc T. Glover
9 Apr 2011 — 5:21pm

Thank you for the cheapprofonts link, riccardO. :o) I will check it out.

riccard0
10 Apr 2011 — 12:41am

Old style numerals, or “text figures” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures) are centered on the x-height, with ascenders and descenders, and are made to better flow in lowercase settings.

Broc T. Glover
10 Apr 2011 — 2:48am

Ahh... Gotcha. Thanks for the link. You may send me back to the literal drawing board.

vilbel
20 Apr 2011 — 9:21am

It's nice, especially the y, looks like a hybrid form of y and the Dutch "ij"-glyph to me. And I think the overall font is playful enough to handle the dotted numbers.

Broc T. Glover
22 Jun 2012 — 1:53am

Thanks. It was fun to work on. And you all have persuaded me to leave the dots within the numerals. They've kinda grown on me.

A screen capture from the movie...