Is it intentional that the baseline vertical offset doesn’t seem consistent? Text set in this has a sort of up-and-down sloppy effect. Otherwise I love it.
Edit: it mostly seems that capitals appear higher than lowercase. It feels like there’s more inconsistency though, like the designer didn’t pay attention to eg the perceived “bottom” of curved characters vs flat-bottom ones.
Simply the "I" and "N" baselines on "Cracking" is wildly (un-professionally) off! Took a screenshot and there's +/- three pixels or so with no artistic justification for it. Even Comic Sans has a consistent baseline!
That's beautiful, I'd love a monospaced variant of this to replace Comic Mono in my IDE/Fira Mono in my terminal. IANA font expert though, would that even be possible?
It’s cute, and I’m trusting enough to believe them when it says 100% home made, but square images with a strong yellow tint will forever be associated with ChatGPT 4o image generation in my mind.
Unfortunately, this might become something like the em-dash—where artists start tweaking their work to look less like the AI’s that are copying them.
LLM cliches are just condensed real world cliches.
Work as middle of the road as this sits right at the heart of that. It’s supposed to be warm and it’s entirely digital, hence the ways of conveying warmth are the same.
I have worked with Aardman. Unsurprisingly everything is shot digitally.
When I look at the text on the whole it seems that individual characters are not aligned properly, or maybe not vertical enough, or something like this. But when I look at individual characters to confirm it, I don't see any misalignment. How does it work?
I watched S1,Ep2 yesterday. When Wallace took down a picture of a pink pig to open the wall safe and then took out a pink piggy bank, I almost lost it. Classic!
Just a note, if you want a special whimsical typeface, there are any number of talented folk on fiverr and similar that will make you one. Well worth it. For the cost of a lunch I got this turned into a font that I really like…
"Imagine an advanced alien race of octopus-like creatures who don't use writing. They encounter humans, enslave some and take them on their spaceships, but find they have to label things for the humans to read. Make me a font that is how these creatures would approximate our writing systems by miming the letters with their tentacles."
It's a glorious sinuous typeface which I use for labeling drawers and bins in my semi-industrial space.
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( The typeface looks a lot like https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/i-cant-believe-i... )
Edit: it mostly seems that capitals appear higher than lowercase. It feels like there’s more inconsistency though, like the designer didn’t pay attention to eg the perceived “bottom” of curved characters vs flat-bottom ones.
LLM cliches are just condensed real world cliches.
Work as middle of the road as this sits right at the heart of that. It’s supposed to be warm and it’s entirely digital, hence the ways of conveying warmth are the same.
I have worked with Aardman. Unsurprisingly everything is shot digitally.
"Imagine an advanced alien race of octopus-like creatures who don't use writing. They encounter humans, enslave some and take them on their spaceships, but find they have to label things for the humans to read. Make me a font that is how these creatures would approximate our writing systems by miming the letters with their tentacles."
It's a glorious sinuous typeface which I use for labeling drawers and bins in my semi-industrial space.
You deserve your own personal typeface.