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- Typographica0
rafalski - I'm not a huge fan of pixel fonts. Due to the increasing resolution of displays and improved hinting techniques, they are just about to become irrelevant.
That said, your face has a lot of character for a 10-11 pixel font. What's the goal? If you expect it to be used for longer texts you may need to change some shapes like the 'e' and 'a' to make the bowl smaller/counter more even. Generally pixel fonts with 2 pixel stem widths are far more readable than those with 1. Try your hand at a bold weight.
I think the A, Y, V, Z are just fine. Maybe V could be wider. Try a larger bowl on the cap P.
- rafalski0
Thanks Typographica.
Death of pixel fonts was announced a few times before, so I hope they'll be ok for some more time. They'll just turn to more decorative category with time imo. Or die.. we'll see.The purpose of this font is to be used in short paragraphs. I envied http://group94.com their custom pixel font they were using on most projects, mixing it tastefully with Meta, so I started working on this one.
Thanks for the tips, I'll play with a few pixels before releasing the font. And there will be bold too, I already like the way it thickens in photoshop's forced bold.
- tehgee0
how bout some beautiful art deco faces? :)
- poomoo0
typo,
just wanted to respond to say thanks as i have been mostly offline for the past couple of days.
of your font suggestions i liked Metroblack No. 2.
I went ahead and bought Daxline and it is now my new favorite font! although im not that fond of the 'e'.
thanks again, your help is very much appreciated!