STF_BODIDONE - Classic Didone style display serif.
Ahh sadly due to repeatedly running into a corrupted font when I save newly made changes to it, it eventually catched up with me and tested the limit of my patience.
I have had to painstakingly restore the font 5 times already since I started it.
So I stopped including new characters as well as making new changes to its existing character set. (At least for now)
Too bad because I wouldve loved to see this truly getting finalized.
So at this stage there are still a number of characters that remain in rough condition, and had yet to be further optimized.
The main A-Z alphabet luckily already was close to how I invisioned it, but especially the numerals, symbols and accents still have some rough edges.
Now, forgetting all that, I still think it is not a bad font at all. Everything is there for most common Western-European languages, somewhat still making this a usable font that I shouldn't be keeping in private!
I hope that despite my bad luck this time, y'all still like it.
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About this Font:
The idea was to make a classic Didone style display serif that is meant for making clean headline text similar to those often seen in older magazines or newspapers. I set out trying to design a semi-bold & slight expanded looking letterform with thin hairline serifs and strokes. I choose a large grid scale for the extra freedom in custom shaping this provides.
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Technique I used in this design:
This font in particular I have experimented with working within a "(asymmetrical-) Grid Scale ratio" ( 1,5:1 ), so, changing only the value for the Horizontal grid scale. (This distorts the grid aspect ratio, and is a great way to discover and experiment with getting new forms and shapes).
The 1,5 : 1 ratio was specifically choosen to keep maths simple, in order to rebuild certain required bricks that build specific slope angles , such as a 45° (which is no longer possible to make from the FS default brick set when using asymmetric scale ratios, unless making composites).
But what this also does is opening up a totally new approach to making shapes, and..becoming quite a surprisingly easy shortcut to get unusual shapes or make variations on these, even with as little as just the rotation of the bricks/selection. (thanks to the distorted aspect ratio) :-).
This is a must try for those who are into large grid designs, fake curves or interrested in experimenting around a little.
Enjoy!
BODINI BALWAUM (Regular) — Didone-style 18th century modern serif
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Dobini Balwaum (Regular) is a Didone, or modern, serif typefaces, inspired by the works of Bodoni, Didot and Walbaum.
This is the solid (or regular) style for the Dobini Balwaum typeface.
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In an attempt at getting that typical sophisticated look, the letters have been provided with a stylish mixture of various different designed Serif attributes.
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═════] Type elements ]
Serifs
• Foot—abrupt (unbracketed) bilateral hairline
• Spur—adnate (wedged) unilateral reflexive
Terminals
• ball/beak/barb/flag/ear/finial/tail terminals & spurs
Apex
• pointed cup
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Letters:
• a & g—double- & single-storey"a" and loop-tail & fish-hook"g" sets
• K k & R—curved & straight legged letter alternate sets
• u & w—unilateral reflexive & bilateral hairline alternate spur sets
• x—alternate asymmetrical lowercase letter
• J & j—narrower glyphs alternates
• t (2x)—stylistic alternates
• s—alternate form with slight wider top section
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• (default)Old Style—(non-lining)
• (alt 1) Modern—(lining)
• (alt 2) "Didot" Old Style—(non-lining)
═════] Optical corrections ]
• top/bottom curve overshoot
• tapered transitions for shoulders & arc of stems
• stroke-weight compensation for horizontals
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I hope you like it so far,
Cheers
This is a clone of STF_DOBINI BALWAUM (Inline)DOBINI BALWAUM (Inline) — Didone-style 18th century modern serif
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Dobini Balwaum is a Didone, or modern, serif typefaces inspired by the works of Bodoni, Didot and Walbaum.
This font had been in the making for quite a long time as I ren into several design difficulties along the way. Most challenging parameter was the inline width. By default the width for the inline was set at 0.125 (or 1/8th) grid units.
Maintaining a constant width for the inline proved to be next to impossible. Therefor it evolves around a 'close' approximation of 0.125 units instead. Stroke weight for the letterform contours also proved to be somewhat of a constraining factor for the overall design concept. As it limits the ability to build complex geometry.
Due to the complexity in brick arrangements the font remains having some minor imperfections that I wasn't able to polish out so fat yet, and some may never will..
For now only Basic Latin letters, it remains a WIP
I hope you like it so far,
Cheers