I saw the logo for tramplin.tv [pictured below] a loooong time ago and was fascinated by it. It used to live on my computer desktop so I can look at it frequently. Even thought to redo it in fontstruct but...just looking at it, it was clear it wasn't doable...at least back then. At some point, the image was moved off to some other to-be-filed folder, and eventually I forgot about it.
I found it again the other day while hunting for some other file.
It was still fascinating. And in the meantime, fontstruct had grown up considerably (Thanks, Rob!). It was time to attempt doing it.
Well, kicked my ass, didn't it.
It seems so simple: One diagonal that goes from one letter to another in smooth transition, bisected by a different angle diagonals. No. Easy in concept, killer in making the geometry work of 2×1 diagonals to 1×4 diagonals.
No matter what thickness of diagonals were selected and whatever the gaps were left, the angles would not line up at some point or another. Which was confusing as 2 goes into 4 exactly 2 times, so things should have lined up without complication. I remembered, many years ago kix used Transparent Windows utility to make the browser transparent so he could trace silhouetted figures for one of his brilliant fs. Even tried tracing. Nope. After many failed attempts, had to break out Illustrator to better visualize the grid and diagonal guides of my own.
[See picture below]
Figuring out the geometry was much simpler in Ai. Found out where I was going wrong. First attempt at doing a and m and making them line up worked like a charm. From then on, it was just a matter of doing the glyphs. Some of them were simple to execute; others like e and c and especially z were quite difficult...at least for my limited intelligence.
Anyway, here it is.
Disclaimer: The original logo is probably copyrighted to someone. I don't own the rights to it. It is displayed here for comparision purposes and for full disclosure. If the owners of the original logo have a objection for its display here, it will be removed immediately.
Reverse in the visual context can mean many things. I decided to create letters and mirrored them, attaching them to a spine.The letters looked like filigree jewellery pendants.
I know that the I , T and W don't follow the design rule; I tried to align them on a spine but the result was unsatisfactory.
This is a cloneAa: Argentina, Australia
Bb: Brazil, Bangladesh
Cc: China, Canada
Dd: Germany, Denmark
Ee: Spain, Ethiopia
Ff: France, Finland
Gg: Greece, Ghana
Hh: Hungary, India
Ii: Italy, Indonesia
Jj: Japan, Jamaica
Kk: South Korea, Kenya
Ll: Latvia, Lithuania
Mm: Mexico, Malaysia
Nn: Norway, Netherlands
Oo: Oman, Austria
Pp: Poland, Pakistan
Qq: Qatar, Guatemala
Rr: Russia, Romania
Ss: Sudan, Saudi Arabia
Tt: Turkey, Thailand
Uu: United States, Ukraine
Vv: Venezuela, Vietnam
Ww: Belarus, Sweden
Xx: United Kingdom, Israel
Yy: Yemen, Iceland
Zz: Zambia, Zimbabwe
I will add more in the future...