Rules & Guidelines:

1) All FontStruct users may participate in FontOut, and can do so with as many entries as they like.

2) An entry in a FontOut is a picture or image on a specific FontStruct forum. It can also be a public font. There are no limits on licence.

3) The font must be tagged with "FontOut#" where '#' stands in for the specific number of the FontOut.

4) Every two weeks, a FontOut will be announced and participants can publish fonts or images within that two-week time period.

This FontOut:
(24th June 2012)
Create a new logo for FontStruct! Post a sample image showing the logo in the comments. The logotype must be done in FS, but it doesn't have to be a compete font. (Note: this is an unofficial contest, and the actual FS logo will not be changed.)

The last time you can upload a sample is 1st July 2012. Voting starts on that date.

Let's see what our FontStruct community can do!

Don't forget to check out all the forums & FontOuts!

Rules & Guidelines:

1) All FontStruct users may participate in FontOut, and can do so with as many entries as they like.

2) An entry in a FontOut is a picture or image on a specific FontStruct forum. It can also be a public font. There are no limits on licence.

3) The font must be tagged with "FontOut#" where '#' stands in for the specific number of the FontOut.

4) Every two weeks, a FontOut will be announced and participants can publish fonts or images within that two-week time period.

This FontOut:
(8th July 2012)
Ligatures! Ligatures are special characters that connect two or more glyphs. This week, create the word firefly using a ligature for fi, fl, and any other ligatures you want. Let's see how many letters can be connected! Entries must be created using FontStruct.

The last time you can upload a sample is 15th July 2012. Voting starts on that date.

Let's see what our FontStruct community can do!

Don't forget to check out all the forums & FontOuts!

What began nearly 8 years ago as an experiment in multi-stage, multi-resolution pixel serif type drafting (starting smallish then manually upscaling x4), took on the robust character you see here after countless edits and some tricky lessons learned along the way.

The initial weight was on the light side (cloned privately for posterity), so I took a leap into this bookish weight by fattening each glyph copy-pasted 1 pixel shifted both up and to the right. A rudimentary technique, by no means novel, yet almost wholly effective. I saw fit from here to only make a handful of corrections, keeping the slightly rounded and slanted serif shape that resulted as well as the subtle reenforcing of a pen-nib construction. 

More intriguing is the 1-bit “anti-aliasing” scheme I found myself  progressively guided toward while finding the lines of these curves developing the initial light weight. Implied diagonals and said curves – as well as refinement of contrast – are substantially more granular and specific than had I taken a black-and-white posterized, or stairstepped approach.

At half-resolution, the resulting smoothness is acceptible. This type of hinting will be useful in developing a substitution rule set consisting of subpixel slanted or curved bricks to produce a “vectorized” version.

Indeed, such a process could be purely automated by a proficient developer or properly trained neural network (this would be a really interesting future feature for fontstruct pro – rather than hinting a font after painstaking vector construction, why not reverse the process by way of en vogue ai-assisted upscaling?).

Basic accented charaters and numerals are being added as I churn through the extended character set...

Inspired from Yautja's Advancer, but here I wanted dots to not overlap. They don't touch and approximately have same distance from one another. Turned them into pearls or bubbles, to make it more interesting. Needs tweaking here and there. This was and is fun to make :) Enjoy.

Stitch-y inline, bold outline, negative and a letter within a letter. Knitka (Нитка) means thread, rope. Thanks and enjoy.