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Sort of like an old script, huh?
Feel free to clone it if you want to check it out. Feel free, also, to download it, if you want to make me do this face :), only in real life.
Any suggestions for the letters? As it stands, it's W.I.P., and if anybody has any suggestions, throw em out there.
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Just a small point, but the dots of the 'i' and 'j' are not very clear - may need a wee bit of separation from the top of the stroke.
I fixed the i and the j, per your request . . . I got a little bit lazy, I must admit; I just raised the dots. But there doesn't seem to be a better way to do it. Does anybody have any suggestions?
And in case you didn't catch it, that's sarcasm.
@meek: Every time's like the first. Well . . . no, not exactly. Every time's like the second. You can't beat how you feel when you get your first TP.
@pnut: Too right you are. I was actually beginning to worry that nobody besides you would comment on this; it was getting buried under a pile of UWE creations, and I was worried Bard would toil in their shadows. But I'm glad I could get a TP. Relieved, actually.
I took Haste makes waste and the provincial idiom There’s no accounting for taste, mashed them up proper, and – wham-presto – came up with the above wry remark.
You see, people make snap judgements – the so-called first impression – and seem attached to the point of irrationality in acting upon and defending them. E.g.: A mom serves overcooked brussels sprouts to a child; that child hates brussels sprouts for a loooooong time. What a waste of such delicious nourishment on the menu!
These “gut feelings” must come from one nauseated society, which perhaps bespeaks all the biliousness. “Why don’t you like it?” “I don’t know. It sucks, I hate it!”
Trying to base our feelings of wellness and success on the feedback of such curt and dyspeptic people is a total waste of consciousness. Unless you’re interested in the core problems – then make sure you bring a roto-rooter!
The play on word, of course, is that when we “taste” we make “waste”. It either comes out one end or the other – depending on how well we ruminate and digest our experiences! ;)
But I see where you're going with that. Tell me if I've got this right . . . I shouldn't feel bad about that one little 4, because people
(trolls COUGH)
make "snap judgments", as you say, and vote random fonts low ratings because, say, they don't like the genre of the font (i.e. blackletter and script, this one), or maybe the fontstructor who made this font had said something critical about their fonts. Therefore, this 4 ought to slide off my back like water off a duck's.
Have I got that right?
Sorry Xeno for this input but you asked... you can hide now if you want this comment which has nothing to do with your font. It was just that your deception about the 4 reminded me this bad week (it was unfinishable), and that there is room to hurt much more on FS. (i was treated like a mentally retarded, brain damaged, a 5 year old child could do better than me in 5 mn when some of my works took more than 1 year of hard work, the same trial finally that the nazis made to the "degenerated artists" which were the most creative and innovative of their time and refused the "academic dictature" to open new ways, new doors...
Here’s another one: Haters gonna HATE! But don’t ever let ’em steal your smile. Peace.
Janking is one of those "snap judges"--forgive me for stealing your phrase, williaum--but I've not heard of anything like that on Fontstruct. That must have been while I was . . . away . . . that is, suffering in the pits of a MineCraft addiction. Anyway, I thought I had it bad, with a four vote . . . Such actions have no place on FontStruct.
Janking did, indeed, judge snappishly. She took a look at your fonts with barely a brush of the eyes, and I see what she may have seen at first--your fonts seem, initially, to be chaotic and rambling. It's not until I look closely that I see order come out of the chaos, and I see the extraordinary brainpower and work behind it. Janking is really one to talk: Two FontStructions in total. To make you feel better, I've always massively admired your work, and (no joke) identify your work with the likes of Geneus1, and of course, the notorious williaum. Janking compared you to a five year old, and a Nazi (I think), and she had no right, nor no justification, to do so.
Your fonts give FontStruct diversity, and (almost) everybody admires your deviation from the orderly and normal. Don't every stop FontStructing, please.
So . . . to simplify what you've said again . . . if somebody has good advice to give--even if it strikes somebody as being too harsh or unfair--it would do good to think about it. But if somebody is blindly voting either high or low, or giving "empty" comments that have no meaning, ignore them.
Have I got that right?
Also, I appreciate you giving me a pat on the back and lightening the load that this four has placed on my back. Just kidding--I can't look at four votes any more after neurone's comment. He's got it hard--I got one four vote and the rest were tens, as well as one nine from somebody who is slightly more harsh of a judge, but nonetheless wise.
P2pnut rated xe Bard 10
xyz rated xe Bard 4
Trolls don't seem to like the light of day and this might reduce such activity.
With regard to the traumatic events experienced by neurone error I would just like to add my final thought (a variation on will.i.ૐ's far more succinct phrase above). At the end of the day ne still retains his talent, skills and artistic integrity; janking retains nothing but the opprobrium that she probably has to face in the real (offline) world as well.
As far as I know Snap judge – as in one who judges “snappishly” – is a newly coined phrase on your part, Xeno. No klepto. And I smiled reading it.
I’m inspired to riff on that note.
Snap Judge is very good, but I think it gives trolls too much machismo and badass credential (like some kinda Samurai Stallone). So how about Snap Judies (or Snap Janes to emphasize their anonymity)?
Then we have the Snap Wagon which is the whole milieu of trolling – but also the coterie of high and mighty design professionals who see it their role to quickly and anonymously downvote “overrated” fontstructions without taking their valuable time to lend any informed commentary on how a given design could be improved.
Son, get off your high horse and hop out the back of that Snap Wagon!
@p2pnut: Meek has emphasized that he will keep voting anonymous as publishing voting history will likely reduce the number of total votes in the system – which I think is actually your point. You see the positive side of this, but he sees the negative. The idea, briefly, is that the voting system works to eliminate aberrant votes as long as it accumulates a larger and larger body of votes. So meek doesn’t want raise the barrier to voting anymore than the requirement of having a user account.
Opprobrium, what a choice word, and a new one for me. Thanks! :~)
@meek: Publishing votes is an unlikely scenario (even considering the low total quantity of votes these days). How about publishing “favorites” in (or above) the comment stream? We can go to every fontstructor’s page and browse their favorites – so they are already published – but it is otherwise an overly difficult to track down who has favorited what. I think this is useful and valuable information for creators who publish their works. Also, publishing “favs” or “likes” at the top of comment streams is a common expectation for some other social networking sites.
Anyway, I really like your ideas about the name for trolls--"Snap Judies" or "Snap Janes" . . . you're right about "Snap Judge" being too badass. And the "Snap Wagon" for trolling in general. I love it all. And I, too, smiled reading what you wrote about the "Snap Janes". Especially insulting if the troll is a male.
I heartily agree with everything you suggested in your comment, as well.
Let me explain that better. The very end of the lower loop on the aforementioned letters (do you see the 3x1 diagonal on the end there?) were actually a single brick followed by a regular 2x1 diagonal, until I discovered in a different font how to wrangle out a 3x1 curve using 2 different composites. It was ridiculously complicated, but I managed it.
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