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'Shine' font based on the CG animated film 'Robots' (2005)
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.
| Attachment | Size |
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| Shine font character map.PNG | 278.66 KB |
| Shine font character map 2.PNG | 280.09 KB |
| Shine font regular a - full rez.PNG | 38.04 KB |
| Shine blue.PNG | 190.97 KB |
| You can shine.PNG | 609.22 KB |
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5 Apr 2011 — 5:10am
Nice. I would've added some dots to numerals too.
5 Apr 2011 — 7:54pm
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.
8 Apr 2011 — 1:54am
Shouldn’t this thread be moved to this board, especially this one?.
8 Apr 2011 — 3:22am
Done. I wasn't sure which forum to post it in. Thanks :o)
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/
9 Apr 2011 — 5:12pm
I hadn't planned an upper case but I suppose it's feasable.
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?
I've included my numeral set with dots here. However I still feel they do look less cluttered without them.
Your opinions are always welcome!
Thanks
9 Apr 2011 — 5:21pm
Thank you for the cheapprofonts link, riccardO. :o) I will check it out.
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.
10 Apr 2011 — 2:48am
Ahh... Gotcha. Thanks for the link. You may send me back to the literal drawing board.
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.
22 Apr 2011 — 5:39am
Thanks. It was fun to work on. And I think y'all have persuaded me to leave the dots within the numerals. They've kinda grown on me.
A screen shot from the movie. Image copyright 2005 - 20th Century Fox.
The rounded characters such as "o" and "a" are, in fact, round. They appear as ellipses only because of the angle of view in the shot.
28 Sep 2011 — 1:46am
I found a relative ;-)
http://www.dafont.com/teacher.font