Big Boned

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by Kirsty MacLeod

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My first fonstruction is based around the theme of malnutrition, but focuses on lesser acknowledged end of the spectrum, over-nutrition. I took inspiration from nature of skin and fat on overweight or obese bodies, putting emphasis on the folds and bulges you might typically see on the skin of a larger frame.

23 Comments

Damn this looks insane, very well done! 10/10

Comment by Sed4tives 13th november 2018

Astonishing!!

Comment by Wataru (Wataru Aiso) 13th november 2018

Great observation and wonderful adaptation! Those chubby glyphs have more unruly proportions than Beryl Cook's or Fernando Botero's people; they remind me a little of muscle areas in 'Tantalus' by Hendrik Goltzius. Well  deserved 10/10

Comment by Aeolien 13th november 2018

what amazes me the most is the great eye for detail that was put into creating depth perception with the shading effect.

Comment by Sed4tives 13th november 2018
Comment by Kirsty MacLeod 14th november 2018

Brilliant. The kerning is a big issue in the sample. 

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 14th november 2018
Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Big Boned” is now a Top Pick.
Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 14th november 2018

@Rob: Yea but the kerning feature in the FS editor becomes pretty much useless at this grid dimensions

Comment by Sed4tives 14th november 2018

And making use of negative side bearing is only fixing this to a certain amount.

Comment by Sed4tives 14th november 2018

The detail in this is absolute wonderful - those are some thiccc letters (and that’s with 3 cs intentionally). Amazing idea, brilliantly executed.

Comment by Bo_bangle 14th november 2018

Checking for stray bricks (but none seen) in largest font preview window I think the "I" might benefit from moving towards the blue vertical line ("J" might also move just a tad?). Congratulations on the TP !

Comment by Aeolien 14th november 2018

WOW! This took a lot of time and effort to create... Nice one!

Comment by anonymous-1520403 15th november 2018

Squishy!

Comment by Joseph McKay (CaillouFanJoseph) 17th november 2018

Kind of disgusting

Comment by Joseph McKay (CaillouFanJoseph) 17th november 2018

Good Font, But I Think It Should Support Lowercase Characters And Punctuation.

Comment by Enderboygamer 18th november 2018
Comment by Kirsty MacLeod 18th november 2018

very goood fontsuction i- thank u much (thumbs up emoji)

Comment by Jeremy Clarkson 22nd november 2018

Y'all wanna call this font "Lancer" and call it day?

Comment by Ded (Dumb Purple Ghost) 23rd november 2018

Phat! The C and G look really similar to the O and thus affect readability, but great shading work on your letterforms and an awesome debut of your first fontstruction! 

Comment by geneus1 26th november 2018

GIMME LOWERCASE LETTERS! GIMME MORE GLYPHS! MORE CHARACTERS! YYYYYYY

Comment by nOBODY0615 4th december 2018

Nice Job, very Creative...

Comment by msbgrafix 11th february 2019

So Cool! <3

Comment by LilyanaW. 7th march 2019

SO AWESOME

Comment by sup sheepy 19th january 2021

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