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Type Battle! Week 3 (1/30)
Posted by Jared Benson in
30 Jan 2006 — 8:44am
30 Jan 2006 — 8:44am
TYPE BATTLE: Week 3 (30 Jan)
Here's your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May be the best designer win.
Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle03
Requirements:
- Size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and white only
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge.
// THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
// Using only pixels, design at least 10 characters of a triline font.
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1 Feb 2006 — 10:20am
Here's what I'm working on now, sort of a sci-fi extended type dealy...
1 Feb 2006 — 11:04am
A 'quick'n'dirty' one
( I may post another one, tomorrow :)
Dav
1 Feb 2006 — 12:30pm
formlos, i like the ligatures that are happening with your sample.
1 Feb 2006 — 1:05pm
Thanks, Enrico, Its actually roughly based on my previous 'Typophile Battle' ( Slab Blackletter ) submission
Dav
1 Feb 2006 — 2:09pm
Tim, fantastic! How does the complete uppercase look? Numbers?
1 Feb 2006 — 7:22pm
I was going to sit this one out, but you start clicking those pixels, and the next thing you know it's past 9:00.
1 Feb 2006 — 8:19pm
Nice pixel-clicking Mark. Looks a bit like a version of Mostra Black, no? And you do know what the best tool for clicking those pixels is, don't you?
HyperCard - in Fatbits mode... w00t!
1 Feb 2006 — 8:22pm
And speaking of mucking about past 9:00 pm... again...
... here's another one. A tip of the pencil tool to Jared for the inspiration.
1 Feb 2006 — 10:46pm
Grant, nice work. Feels fresh. Any chance you're building these on the Newton?
2 Feb 2006 — 12:45am
a little bit improved.
2 Feb 2006 — 12:51am
I also started a new style and i would like to hear what u think about it!? I had no time to make more than one charckter yet.
2 Feb 2006 — 3:16am
Yeah, Grant, what is that program?
2 Feb 2006 — 6:38am
Grant, I was going to say something about how great FatBits was in MacPaint on the first Mac. HyperCard probably used the same code (both written by Bill Atkinson). Great idea. I should be using BitFonter (which I own) but I used PhotoShop so that I would just have a big, white canvas to work on.
2 Feb 2006 — 7:48am
Jared, on the Newton? Nope. For the Newton, absolutely. Newton fonts are basically TrueType fonts without the outline data. The bitmaps are stored in sbit tables, with optional width metrics for printing using a PostScript printer's built-in outlines. There are tools which facilitate moving the bitmap data back and forth between the formats. Unfortunately, there's no native bitmap editor for Newton. Sigh.
Dan, HyperCard was a simple, programming tool from Apple that used hyper-linking and a 'stack-of-cards' metaphor. I still use it for rapid development of file and text manipulation utilities. As Mark mentioned above, it was originally designed by Bill Atkinson, the father of MacPaint. The one-bit paint tools are simple, clean and intuitive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercard
Mark, if you need more real estate (and you feel like popping into Classic) you can create a custom HyperCard window that's nearly the size of your screen. Here's a screendump of the largest HyperCard window possible displaying on my 22 inch Cinema display.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/94540666/
I've only just started playing with BitFonter (specifically to update the current Newton system fonts to include the Euro). I kinda miss using Altsys' Fontastic, actually...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/90881231/
2 Feb 2006 — 8:33am
height = 5 pixel
2 Feb 2006 — 9:06am
Yeah, baby! The smallest one yet. Superb.
2 Feb 2006 — 10:02am
Steven, I think the 'H' is great, it is very Maya-esque. I'd love to see more.
2 Feb 2006 — 10:35am
Tim
2 Feb 2006 — 12:05pm
It was too hard to resist playing with this idea more so here is another one I threw together.
Also... Steven, I really like that "H." I especially like how it meets the requirements for this battle but it does not look pixelated. Does that make sense?
Duncan
2 Feb 2006 — 2:20pm
Here's something... Haven't had much time to bake this one; therefore it may be semi-hemi-demi-half-baked.
2 Feb 2006 — 2:41pm
Here's my first post.
I still feel like there are some issues with the color. But for a first attempt I'm pretty satisfied with it.
Hope you guys like it.
2 Feb 2006 — 3:00pm
"Smalltalk" is nice, Dewitte, but it seems a little... you know... big.
2 Feb 2006 — 3:49pm
Good stuff. Woodtype seems to work out quite well!
Dan, here's a complete alphabet for my last design. Some letters need more work, and there are still no numbers.
2 Feb 2006 — 6:43pm
2 Feb 2006 — 8:24pm
this is sort of a mess, but not as messy as the triline bike graphic i tried to make to go with it.
3 Feb 2006 — 6:37am
This has been so great to watch, that even a non-desginer like me feels the need to fire up Photoshop and have a play. Is it acceptable to murder a few old classics like this?
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3 Feb 2006 — 8:13am
3 Feb 2006 — 8:20am
Great work,Tim! Your blackletter has got personality. However I wonder whether the k, r, and x could use more definition - I'm not sure I'd know what that character was if taken out of context.
3 Feb 2006 — 8:45am
Barcodoni :)
3 Feb 2006 — 8:49am
Jared, how about Van Halen? :^D
3 Feb 2006 — 10:25am
I don't have the time anymore today to play with it but I invite anyone who's interested to take it and elaborate on it. Do me a favor and change the "A" - I avoid those rounded-top As at all costs, but just got lazy this time.
Jared
3 Feb 2006 — 11:26am
wowsville, glen! that tri-line blackletter knocks my socks off! totally rad!
(okay i know i should be shot for using three !!! in a row, but i really was blown away)
3 Feb 2006 — 11:38am
Glens really makes me nostalgic for the old Mac Classic Prince of Persia games... the titles had that same feel to them, somehow.
Anyway there goes my lunchbreak today:
3 Feb 2006 — 11:53am
Thanks for the positive response!
I've been making more letters. I'll re-post as soon as I get done.
3 Feb 2006 — 2:55pm
I just made a few more letter. Sorry, I didn't have enough time to make more. Perhaps next battle.
3 Feb 2006 — 5:42pm
great stuff everyone! it's been exciting to see so much variety…
here's a revised version of my original post—now those are some pixels, baby!
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nc
4 Feb 2006 — 1:41am
Pica's knotwork gets my vote, closely followed by Glen's Ming the Merciless.
Tim
4 Feb 2006 — 6:37pm
A little belated, but here are some A's for Jared. Didn't have a compelling idea for this challenge myself, but here was a little thing I could contribute.
I adored the wood type ideas. If I were a pixel-font-using designer, I'd be all over those.
5 Feb 2006 — 8:11am
Paging Miguel Hernandez...
I would love to see what Miguel would do with this.
5 Feb 2006 — 10:22am
Paging Miguel Hernandez…
I would love to see what Miguel would do with this.
Holy crap he would own this thing... One look at those fonts and my self-confidence ebbs away like the tides...
15 Feb 2006 — 3:15pm
Hi !
Here is my idea
21 Apr 2008 — 1:42pm
Do any of you have plans of porting your designs over to Fontstruct?
12 Nov 2012 — 7:38am
Please forgive the extra bump, but some of these are so lovely! I especially like the ones that look like folded ribbons, and the thunderbird one.
I miss battles!
12 Nov 2012 — 10:49am
I was just thinking the same thing, there are some lovely pieces here.
Tim
27 Nov 2012 — 6:59am
Yeah, you're not the only one, Gill.