Castle Paradox

Pumpkinbot · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:36 pm Post subject: How's the font?

I made a font based off of the infamous Comic Sans font. Is it any good?

The only problem I have is the width of the "i" and "t". :/

Calehay · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

I'm definitely no font expert, but to me, the A, C, G, M, S, Y, and y seem extremely out of place compared to the rest of the font. It seems strange those letters would have such an italicized slant to them while the others don't. The u and v seem much shorter than their other lowercase counterparts. The top of the Y and R seem to hang much lower than the other similar uppercase letters.

It would also help if you posted a some test sentences with the font so we can see it in action.
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Baconlabs · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject:

Yeah, definitely need some words. The quick brown fox and all that jazz.

Pumpkinbot · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject:

Looks pretty good, in my opinion. :U

TMC · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject:

Definitely looking better with the fixed u and v, and nice overall. However the spacing better letters is a little inconsistent in places. Notice the large gap between f and o in 'fox', j and u in 'jumped'. It looks to me that f, g, and possibly j should be moved one pixel to the right.

I don't like the M. How about posting an example with all the capital letters? And I think you need to look at a whole lot more text examples to work out the spacing.
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Pumpkinbot · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject:

Better?

TMC · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject:

Wait a minute, you're meant to use "jumps", not "jumped", you missed S :P

The totally square capital letters like THEIL stand out a bit (or maybe it's the other letters that do?), going back to what Calehay said. X looks a bit weird. A and D (and the bottom tip of Y) are strangely thick, you seemed to have decided on a different style of diagonal strokes for all the other letters except these.

A pity the engine doesn't let you use variable width fonts yet - that's really what this font needs. However, I still quite like this font, though I've noticed people are quite picky about fonts around here.
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Pumpkinbot · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject:

Italic and slightly bold-er. Big grin

Also, a reference to the best band ever.
EDIT: And an unintentional spelling error I don't feel like changing.
EDIT2: Forgot to italicize the numbers. I'll do that in the future. Raspberry!

Baconlabs · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:32 pm Post subject:

I like it better this way.

Is it true to Comic Sans? I don't know or care. I'd use it.

Pumpkinbot · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: