Yep, I created the new Avatar font

Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by munificent on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:31PM (#31317960)

I hate fonts that have textural imperfections that are repeatedly perfectly on every instance of the same character, destroying the illusion.

When I wrote my book "Crafting Interpreters", I hand-lettered every single word in every illustration separately so that it would be as imperfect as it appeared.

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Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by Dangeranger on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:40PM (#31318075)

Your hand lettering is excellent by the way. Thanks for taking the time to do that. It's a lost art.

The only works of comparable quality I am aware of are classics like the Moosewood Cookbook[0] (famously completely hand typeset), Allen and Mikes Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book[1], and Anybody's Bike Book[2].

Hand illustrating technical content is so much better than sterile diagrams, and it lends a sense of personalization, especially if the illustrator is also the author, which is a rarity.

[0] https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/katzen-mollie/moo...

[1] https://skimo.co/allen-mikes-backcountry-ski-book

[2] https://archive.org/details/anybodysbikebook00cuth

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Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by munificent on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:58PM (#31318959)

Don't forget the Forrest Mims electronics books that were in every Radio Shack back in the day.

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Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by Dangeranger on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:56AM (#31326527)

Oh, thanks for that recommendation. I’ll be sure to read them soon.

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Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by Moru on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:56AM (#31324300)

Thanks, that bike repair book is nice!

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Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by TameAntelope on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:41PM (#31320150)

> I hand-lettered every single word in every illustration separately so that it would be as imperfect as it appeared.

Good lord, I'm going to think about this every time I consider dedication to craft.

Seriously, wow. That's impressive. I'm sorry this isn't more substantive of a comment, but I really wanted you to know how amazing that is (as you probably already do).

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Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by munificent on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:44PM (#31320187)

There is almost certainly a pathological component to how much effort I sunk into the book but once I started... I kinda just kept doing it.

Also, lettering was sort a of a nice peaceful zen break from the harder work of writing prose.

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Re:Yep, I created the new Avatar font by scott_s on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @11:34AM (#31328360)

You'll probably enjoy his writeup (and a video) on his process: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...

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