Medium: Typeface Design Ruleset: Unique Rules What it is: Designs of letterforms to create a typeface that someone can use in their own work. Typeface designs can be for any language with a defined glyphset, including fictional languages.
Unique Rules:
Minimum of 26* designed letterforms, and three type specimen images (including at least one image that shows off the full letterset). This would allow someone to, at minimum, design a font that only has uppercase or lowercase letterforms in English. The font must be converted/presented as an installable form (.otf, .ttf).
Minimum wordcount equivalent for typeface design is 2k.
+ 500 word bonus for numerals or their equivalents + 500 word bonus for 20 punctuation marks (or the full punctuation mark set is for that language, if it has less than 20 punctuation marks) + 500 word bonus if letter pairings of the font have been adjusted so that the glyphs fit nicely together when typed. + 1k bonus for an additional 26 letterforms (e.g. a font with a lowercase and an uppercase; or just an uppercase and Latin-A extended characters; or an uppercase and printers' ornaments; or if the language has 52 or more base glyphs; or if the font has been provided in multiple alphabets, such as English and Arabic, or Cyrillic and Greek, etc.)
Maximum of 4k per typeface.
Other Info:
Programs to make fonts
Calligraphr. Best used for turning hand-drawn fonts or handwriting into fonts. This is one of the friendliest points of entry if you've never made a font before. Highly recommended! Free, web-based. https://www.calligraphr.com/en/
Glyphr. Best used for someone already familiar with font design. Free, web-based, desktop-based. http://www.glyphrstudio.com/
Fontself. Best used for people who draw and/or are already familiar with Photoshop and/or Illustrator. Really great point of entry for someone who already does digital art, and would like to try making a font. Paid, Adobe Plugin. https://www.fontself.com/
FontStruct. Best used for grid-based font drawing and design. Free, web-based. https://fontstruct.com/
*Note: If the language that you are designing for has a smaller base glyph count than 26, than whatever number that is will suffice for the minimum!
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Date: 2021-08-03 01:13 pm (UTC)Ruleset: Unique Rules
What it is: Designs of letterforms to create a typeface that someone can use in their own work. Typeface designs can be for any language with a defined glyphset, including fictional languages.
Unique Rules:
Minimum of 26* designed letterforms, and three type specimen images (including at least one image that shows off the full letterset). This would allow someone to, at minimum, design a font that only has uppercase or lowercase letterforms in English. The font must be converted/presented as an installable form (.otf, .ttf).
Minimum wordcount equivalent for typeface design is 2k.
+ 500 word bonus for numerals or their equivalents
+ 500 word bonus for 20 punctuation marks (or the full punctuation mark set is for that language, if it has less than 20 punctuation marks)
+ 500 word bonus if letter pairings of the font have been adjusted so that the glyphs fit nicely together when typed.
+ 1k bonus for an additional 26 letterforms (e.g. a font with a lowercase and an uppercase; or just an uppercase and Latin-A extended characters; or an uppercase and printers' ornaments; or if the language has 52 or more base glyphs; or if the font has been provided in multiple alphabets, such as English and Arabic, or Cyrillic and Greek, etc.)
Maximum of 4k per typeface.
Other Info:
Programs to make fonts
Calligraphr. Best used for turning hand-drawn fonts or handwriting into fonts. This is one of the friendliest points of entry if you've never made a font before. Highly recommended! Free, web-based.
https://www.calligraphr.com/en/
Glyphr. Best used for someone already familiar with font design. Free, web-based, desktop-based.
http://www.glyphrstudio.com/
Fontself. Best used for people who draw and/or are already familiar with Photoshop and/or Illustrator. Really great point of entry for someone who already does digital art, and would like to try making a font. Paid, Adobe Plugin.
https://www.fontself.com/
FontStruct. Best used for grid-based font drawing and design. Free, web-based.
https://fontstruct.com/
*Note: If the language that you are designing for has a smaller base glyph count than 26, than whatever number that is will suffice for the minimum!