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Fignuts
Posted by saywerd in
8 Sep 2002 — 5:57pm
8 Sep 2002 — 5:57pm
here's my first crack at a bitmap type family. fignuts is a slab serif face with 8 styles:
11 condensed light
21 light
22 regular
31 extended light
32 extended regular
33 extended bold
34 extended bold outline
35 extended bold shadow
the font includes full punctuation, ligatures, and oldstyle & lining figures. I'm also planning on including a full sans-serif version of the family as soon as the slab version is completely worked out.
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8 Sep 2002 — 7:08pm
here's a sample comparing the slab version with the sans (fignuts vs fitsnug)
9 Sep 2002 — 7:46am
Wow, brings back memories of old Macintosh bitmap fonts. I like.
9 Sep 2002 — 8:15am
This is great! It has character, and it's especially nice to have all those hand-made variations.
hhp
9 Sep 2002 — 9:23am
Y'no I'm looking for that kind'a font right now for some button titles on the nav of a site I'm pumping out. Wish there was something in between 21 and 22.
perhaps the regular and bold weights are a bit too close. Well the bold simply seems larger, not really heavier. wait a second, that's ext bold. there's no regular bold?
hmm well the ext regular isin't as bold I guess but too wide. Its so hard finding a bitmap face that is clear, not bold, nor 1 line of pixels. Surely harder to design one. nice font though
9 Sep 2002 — 9:38am
This is nice. Kinda like Berthold's 'City', but with humor. Good to see the slab serif. And I agree with Cody I thought of the early mac days when it was cool to outline the fonts.
9 Sep 2002 — 10:22am
Yeah, I like the overall flavor (the f, the
ligatures), but some of your diagonals are yucky
(V, W and K).
I'd also say, it's rather big, how about a 9 pt?
9 Sep 2002 — 10:48am
here's a chart to show how the styles are laid out:
9 Sep 2002 — 1:09pm
I like the 22 and 35! Great work! I have some doubts about "s" but that letter is always a problem, I think. C,G,J need some work in my opinion. Go, go!
10 Sep 2002 — 8:02am
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10 Sep 2002 — 1:22pm
think this typeface is great. but many characters seem totaly broken.
i can see what you tried to achieve in the uc k of 21, discarding the pixels near the central joint to make the leg and hand of the k seem alittle curvy but i think the letter looks distorted. same goes for the M & N in that set.
the shadow and 22 are great. and this is a nice family..
12 Sep 2002 — 2:46pm
The 'a' in Fignuts Condensed Light can be mistaken
for an 'o'. Maybe it needs an ear serif?
See http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/29/2714.html?1031867092
12 Sep 2002 — 2:48pm
What the hell is an ear serif, you friggin' mutant?!
hhp
13 Sep 2002 — 4:50am
Hrant, I believe Stephen means a serif in the upper-right x-height region, like in the 'g'. Right, SColes?
-- K.
13 Sep 2002 — 10:16am
Thank you Kent. I was too upset about the name-
calling to respond. Hehe.