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Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor

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Re: Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor

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Post by mistercow »

erremerre wrote: post #3

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?

Re: Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor

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Post by afandian »

tspng wrote: post #13
afandian wrote: post #10

How do you edit different letters? When I opened it, 'Q' is selected but I don't see buttons to change letter?

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.

Re: Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor

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Post by afandian »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #9

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…

Also reminiscent of CNC router fonts.

https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/

Discussed here a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190397

Re: Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor

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Post by dole »

mistercow wrote: post #11
erremerre wrote: post #3

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.

Re: Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor

#19

Post by afandian »

bapak wrote: post #17

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.
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