cloned from Christian Munk (Spitzchtruct)
this is a cursive "workshop" to be improved upon
it seems to me that there is not really much of a choice on fontstruct for cursive letters, most are connecting at the bottom which does not look natural in my opinion.
i thought i'd give it a try despite my being a beginner at this
Christian Munk had the right idea to make the connectors from the bottom on the right side of each letter and up to the middle of the left side of each letter above the baseline. it looks more natural that way.
however, some of the original creator's letters did not make sense to me, maybe it is a different language or a constructed language?
i liked some of the basic composited bits and pieces made by the originator
I moved most of Christian Munk's original created letters over to the empty punctuation spaces. the originals that i thought were okay i moved to the empty capital spaces. (there are no capitals in the original script). i'm not sure why some of the letters are strange looking, such as the letter D which looked like a capital V so i put it there instead.
then i recreated most of the lowercase letters using their bits and pieces
i think the only letters i kept the same were b, l, i, j & z
i may finish it later, the capitals need to be finished
but i thought i'd share what i got done ... it might be useful for ideas for an improved cursive script
This is a clonePixel-art Cursive~!
Alphabet available in capital and lower-case.
Intended for 10pt. font size
Some symbols are used as cursive-based add-ons:
` is a single pixel, used for padding out the continuing line
@, #, $, %, ^, &, and * are flourishes to end a sentence with.
A cursive pixel font.
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Series title: Essentia
Type: Cursive Script
Properties: Bold & Italic, 5.7pt
Currently Available in:English and Dutch, Welsh, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Italian, French, Albanian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, Greek, Belarussian (Latin and Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin and Cyrillic), and Russian.
Soon to be available in:Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Esperanto (potentially), Turkish, Vietnamese (Latin).
Possible future additions: Hebrew, Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Hindi.
Any Suggestions?
Version 1.1: More Latin added.
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Haven't done anything like this in a long while. This is a form of pseudocursive script, and it's termed this because many forms deviate from the cursive standards. I had to find my own solutions to account for different types of loops and to add details.
Pixel cursive, mostly on a 5x5 grid. Maybe this is the terminal font for some cybernetic old lady's computer? :D
It was possible to build every letter in 5x5, but it honestly looks far better when letters with descenders are allowed to descend a bit. This also works to increase the line spacing, which this font really needs for readability.
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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
First attempt at a cursive pixel font. The name derives from an old joke band, whose name is itself a parody of the name of a toy gun by BoomCo, the "Rapid Madness".
Original size: 12pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
VERSION HISTORY:
09 Mar 2018 - v1.0 released.
10 Mar 2018 - v1.1 released.
13 Mar 2018 - v1.2 released. More Latin support added. The capital letters were cleaned up to make them nicer-looking when appearing in isolation. Excess spaces/lengths of line were reduced to make for denser-looking, more naturally handwritten words.
02 Apr 2018 - "More Latin" and "Google Fonts Basic" ranges finished. More shortening/optimization done for the extended Latin letters.