San_Serif Font: A-Z Uppercase

Uppercase of dad font digitized and it looks pretty good actually, no complaints yet! hope everything else goes as smoothly as this!

San_Serif Font: Final Sketches

And this is the other half of the puzzle that will make my hybrid come to life, my dad font! I did the sketches on graph paper this time unlike the blackletter font (which I should have done) since I got a much better scale and lines for the edges and it helped a LOT! just to digitize this as well! (though, I kinda do like them just sketched, the pencil lines are pretty strong by themselves)

The font includes, like the blackletter, Complete A-Z in both upper and lower case, also with punctuation/symbols and numbers!

Blackletter font: Symbols + Numbers

Yes, yes I know if you look up close the font is not perfect, but if I literally sit here and try to perfect all three fonts (the mom font, the dad font and then the final hybrid font), I will be here till Feb. 2011. I just needed these quick yet satisfactory mom and dad fonts to give me a nice and crisp Hybrid font.

This is the last of my blackletter font! next up is my San-serif font (dad font)

Blackletter font: Lowercase

Digitized the smaller case of my blackletter font, it's a long and tedious task since my mom and dad font aren't going to be downloaded in the end and I can just present them as sketches, but I wanted to do this, to get the hybrid right the first time! and it's coming along slowly but surely!

Blackletter font: Uppercase (digital)

Slowly but surely I'm refining all the sketched letters on Illustrator, and it's finally becoming fun again! but lots more to do!

Fontstruct: great fun or just no helpful at all? :(

Ok, since I had decided to take a break from fontstruct since it was being a pain in the neck, I went back to it the other day to give it another go!

So... the catch behind the whole free service from the providers is that you make your font out of pixels, which doesn't seem much of a problem when you think about it, since everything (digitally) is made out of tiny pixels. BUT! looking at all the curves I have to create with the hybrid, I want a VERY VERY smooth looking font, so for me to be able to achieve that, I literally have to use A LOT of pixels to make that smooth looking font. And of course, this is my FMP, so I want this hybrid font near enough perfection. Now, I'm not accepting defeat with fontstruct, but sometimes, while using it, it just makes me want to through my laptop across the room and just forget about it all....

oh well, be positive, think positive... so everything should be positive right?

Final Blackletter Font: Stage 1 Cleared

Ok, so I've finished the hard part with just the blackletter now, all I gotta do is mac it all up now, which shouldn't be a problem!

The whole font is done including the A-Z in upper and lowercase with all the punctuation and symbols and the numbers!

Guitar Hero ||| inspiration...

Ok, so I took a break and played games, but I noticed something. The game I was playing had a font displayed, which looked rather cool.

Now ofcourse, the game I was playing was Guitar hero 3, but I really liked the game's theme font. As it's a blackletter (a blackletter with style), I thought I could get some ideas out of the few letters I saw and help me with my font. I specially like the 'S', very angular but the curves are pretty too.

Making the parent fonts: fun work or just a chore?

Ok, so making the two fonts before the actual hybrid didn't seem much of a task when I thought about it. But once you actually start thinking about making the font (which is not even going to be downloaded in the end) it starts to become tiresome. BUT! I want to give the two fonts that will be mixing together as much design time as I will be giving to the hybrid, so that everything is perfect in the end with the hybrid. Don't wanna mess this up, so I guess I've just gotta put my head down and get this part done!

After some thinking...

I have been playing around in Fontstruct and turns out it bloody well takes time to create just one letter and since my aim was to create 3 separate fonts, looking at the time window I have, I've had to think things through. Now, I will just design the mum and dad font on illustrator, and create the hybrid font on Fonstruct.

Also, I was having problems on Fontstruct before, as the letters came out too pixely. So, I just planned the letter on graph paper first, using the squares on the paper as compared to the pixels on fontstruct! So far it is working just fine, as I have been digitizing my first generation hybrids on fontstruct.