January 24th, 2008
“Taking an almost banal, ubiquitous letter shape - the geometric sans-serif - Pea gleefully plays with contradictions by rendering it using elaborate calligraphic swashes. Both worlds are given equal prominence, the overly ornate special occasion and the everyday.”. Fontface Pea from Corey Holms. Can be bought at Veer.
+ TypeNeu
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Love Up/Down
2
150pt type… perhaps Helvetica Neue Black?
oh well… not allowed to post images on comments…
image: http://www.sveinn.net/drasl/scribble.png
Sveinn, yes, that is the genesis of the typeface. But as you can imagine, the number of points allowed for a typeface was quickly maxed out. So I completely redrew the typeface in FontLab using my EPS files as guides - and removing points whenever possible so that it could be made into a functional typeface. Some of the curves terminated very strangely as well, so I corrected any that felt incongruous.
Just wanted to clear the air that I am in no way hiding how the original sketches for the typeface came about.
Hopefully some people will find it convenient to use a typeface instead of setting and rendering each piece of type between multiple programs themselves. But I certainly wouldn’t begrudge them if they enjoyed setting it on their own.
Increase the font UPM size in FontLab…
File > Font Info > Metrics and Dimensions > Font’s UPM size
you can use a UPM size anywhere up to 16,384
Maybe I’m mistaken, but increasing the UPM size only increases the grid for each glyph, it doesn’t allow for more points.
Regardless, I had fun drawing it - hopefully some people will have fun using it.
I can’t max out the number of points in Fontlab…
I am referring to the other programs that will end up using the typeface - here’s a link that will explain it better than I can. Basically, if the typeface is too complex (too many points/nodes) then it can slow down, and even crash programs when loaded.
http://www.typophile.com/node/16152