edit: tried to type "à", and the letter is not recognized in the font (appears in red in the editor).
Would there be a way to tell the editor that "à" = "a" + "`", rather than retyping the symbol from scratch?
edit2 : Having to remove all the [2..n] points if you want to change the second point you made is also a bit of a pain, especially for people like me with little experience of where the points end up being on the line vertically.
Reminded me a teenie tiny bit of the original font used by Habbo Hotel Volter (Goldfish) which has a rough pixel look to it (at least that's how my nostalgia makes me see it) they got rid of the Volter font when Habbo upgraded from Adobe Shockwave to Adobe Flash, they went to Ubuntu font if I remember correctly. I still miss the old font.
My favorite thing about Habbo's font from back in 2001 is the "emojis" that it had. If you played Habbo back then, you were likely using emojis before they were cool. ;)
That editor is really cool; you can even see the font change live on the left!
Yeah, that is recent, they have had Origins out for over a year. Friends of mine were indirectly involved in what lead to Origins being a thing. Someone discovered you can just run Shockwave as a standalone executable. The developer leading the efforts for Origins was also iconic in the Habbo reverse engineering scene, where players would recreate the back-end server. He was known as Myrax back then. ;)
I tried to do that, and now I’m just confused. The included glyph for the lower case n doesn’t actually fit the grid, so you can’t seem to replicate it. But also that grid doesn’t have enough resolution to do the tilde. Maybe I’m missing something?
Enter a N or n into the Editing box, you'll see the two grids that make the glyph up along with a blank third grid on the bottom, add a small tilde in the top two rows. Or copy and paste the actual Ñ or ñ characters into the Editing box to create it new, and you can use it immediately with the alphabet textbox on the left.
Reminds when I was doing my own bitmap fonts on ZX Spectrum and Amiga. They were probably very ugly by today's standards but they were mine :) I guess I'll create one for my terminal, it probably won't be used there for too long but it would remind me of times when I was more in control of my machine.
Will need to try this in a terminal but on initial glance it looks similar to terminus (a font I've been trying to find a replacement for for over 20 years....)
Cool but pretty bad edit UI. Can't figure out how to edit an existing letter without starting from scratch. One letter at a time. What are even the additional grids below the letter being edited?
This needs more upvotes. Hopefully the author reads this comment and provides a hint on how to create extra grids (accidentally deleted one, now I only have 2)
Hate the font, love the editor.
edit: tried to type "à", and the letter is not recognized in the font (appears in red in the editor).
Would there be a way to tell the editor that "à" = "a" + "`", rather than retyping the symbol from scratch?
edit2 : Having to remove all the [2..n] points if you want to change the second point you made is also a bit of a pain, especially for people like me with little experience of where the points end up being on the line vertically.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29921137
Reminded me a teenie tiny bit of the original font used by Habbo Hotel Volter (Goldfish) which has a rough pixel look to it (at least that's how my nostalgia makes me see it) they got rid of the Volter font when Habbo upgraded from Adobe Shockwave to Adobe Flash, they went to Ubuntu font if I remember correctly. I still miss the old font.
My favorite thing about Habbo's font from back in 2001 is the "emojis" that it had. If you played Habbo back then, you were likely using emojis before they were cool. ;)
That editor is really cool; you can even see the font change live on the left!
https://www.dafont.com/volter-goldfish.font
Also reminiscent of CNC router fonts.
https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/
Discussed here a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190397
Thank you for sending me into a Habbo Hotel rabbit hole of nostalgia! They have a classic mode apparently, which is even on Steam now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3809900/Habbo_Hotel_Origi...
Yeah, that is recent, they have had Origins out for over a year. Friends of mine were indirectly involved in what lead to Origins being a thing. Someone discovered you can just run Shockwave as a standalone executable. The developer leading the efforts for Origins was also iconic in the Habbo reverse engineering scene, where players would recreate the back-end server. He was known as Myrax back then. ;)
I would suggest drag to move dots
Same, I love the idea but the editor needs a bit of work. Moving dots, deleting dots and dragging to create new lines would be nice.
On the other hand I do like that it is low resolution so one is limited from trying to add lots of details.
Very nice font.
In italian "Brutalita" (but with an accent on the last a: "Brutalità") it means brutality.
The font has bad support for CJK fonts (take Chinese for example).
en: Hello, World! zh: 你好，世界！
You can copy that in their font editor to give it a try.
An amazing thing, given the author is Spanish speaker I really miss the ñ Ñ. But I guess his answer is going to be, you can make those yourself!
I tried to do that, and now I’m just confused. The included glyph for the lower case n doesn’t actually fit the grid, so you can’t seem to replicate it. But also that grid doesn’t have enough resolution to do the tilde. Maybe I’m missing something?
Enter a N or n into the Editing box, you'll see the two grids that make the glyph up along with a blank third grid on the bottom, add a small tilde in the top two rows. Or copy and paste the actual Ñ or ñ characters into the Editing box to create it new, and you can use it immediately with the alphabet textbox on the left.
It's very nice and interesting, but the font editor is... brutal.
There is no way to undo, redo, or move the anchor points. At least you can delete the last line segment by clicking on the last point.
It would also help to indicate which dot is starting point and which is the ending point.
I appreciate how lower-case ‘L’, digit ‘1’ and upper-case ‘I’ are differentiated. Also alpha ‘O’ and zero.
This is amazing!
Reminds when I was doing my own bitmap fonts on ZX Spectrum and Amiga. They were probably very ugly by today's standards but they were mine :) I guess I'll create one for my terminal, it probably won't be used there for too long but it would remind me of times when I was more in control of my machine.
Wow, this is both really fun and very technically impressive!
Lots of complaining in here about something that's really well made.
Reminds me of Metafont by Donald Knuth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont
Will need to try this in a terminal but on initial glance it looks similar to terminus (a font I've been trying to find a replacement for for over 20 years....)
A little reminiscent of modernist Italian fonts seen on war memorials.
How to split line? Not clear how to draw character with accents, for example
> How to split line?
Each (poly) line has a separate layer. Preview '#' character to get an idea. A new layer is created every time you fill the previous one.
Each box is a layer. So you put the accent in the second box.
Cool but pretty bad edit UI. Can't figure out how to edit an existing letter without starting from scratch. One letter at a time. What are even the additional grids below the letter being edited?
I like the UI, as more of a thing-to-play-with than a serious typographic tool. Each grid contains a continuous polyline.
How do you edit different letters? When I opened it, 'Q' is selected but I don't see buttons to change letter?
Where you see the 'Q', it's a text-field, you can just enter a different letter and it'll switch.
The letter below the "Editing" label is an input field. You can change the current letter there.
Thanks, got it! There's no clue that it's editable.
Type the letter you want in the left box.
The grid is too narrow. :( With just five pixels, I can't make a decent looking ß and ẞ that are sufficiently distinct from each other.
this read to me like brutalità (which would be "brutality" in italian but i don't know if it is actually a word in use) first
close enough, but it's in spanish. Form the website:
"The name means "little brutal" in Spanish."
so the emphasis is on the 'i'
yes, hence the "first" (before i saw the note)
Yes, is a word in use.
Brutalità is brutality in english.
little UX issue: that's a little surprising that knots cannot be moved.
This needs more upvotes. Hopefully the author reads this comment and provides a hint on how to create extra grids (accidentally deleted one, now I only have 2)
So far as I can tell an extra blank grid appears as soon as the previous blank one has content/pre-existing default grid is edited.
Oblig
https://fontstruct.com/
Very inspiring... Makes me wanna dive into fonts again...
Very cool.
from spain?