Medium Nomination Post

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Medium Nomination Post

Links:

• Tagset
• Medium Rulesets

Nominating

Nomination is how you add things to the tagset! Mediums aren't matchable via Ao3, but participants can opt into mediums other than fanfiction and then if you're someone who wishes to match on one of those mediums you'll be able to email us (ficinaboxmod@gmail.com) or contact us via a google form (to be posted later).

This post is where you should nominate any mediums you want added to the tagset!

If you're nominating a medium where the equivalent needs to be discussed you should only nominate if you are someone who intends to create the medium within the exchange. If it's a new length opt-in, another form of something already in the tagset, or something that fits easily into the Rulesets anyone can nominate.

When nominating a medium, please include the following categories:

Medium: Ruleset(s): Unique Rules: (only add if "Unique Rules" was chosen in Rulesets) What is it: Other Info:

There is an example (and by example I mean a real medium the mods are nominating) below for reference!

Other Info

Almost all tags from last year were imported into this year's tagset. Those excluded were because they required unique rules and weren't posted last year, with some of them being potentially out of scope of the exchange upon further reflection. The following tags were excluded (those with stars are potentially out of scope):
• *Animatics
• *Board Game
• The Bookshelf Limbo' style book preview
• *Card Game
• *Conspiracy Board (Simpler Art/Comic Rules version left in!)
• *fate/Stay Night (visual novel) style Heroic Spirit status screen
• *In-Universe Social Media (Simpler Art/Comic Rules version left in)
• In-Universe Wedding Reception Menu
• Shopping list
• *Tabletop Campaign
• *Translation notes
• *Translation notes: In-Universe translation notes
• Typeface Design
• Untitled Goose Style To-Do List

All of these can be renominated by someone who intends to create them, including those which may be out of scope! Those with stars will need further discussion (either due to scope issues or due to the addition of templates and the rulesets possibly changing how they should be equated), those without can be renominated directly. If the list style mediums are renominated I have a draft of a ruleset for those.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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!

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

We talked about this on discord so I'm going to post the ruleset we ended up with. If this looks alright then I'll get it added! (Also let me know if glyphs is the right term!)


Tagset Tag:
Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Typeface Design

Ruleset under Unique Rules as:
"
Typeface Design

Typeface designs must be posted both a type specimen visible within the work on AO3 and with a linked installable form (.oft, .ttf).

Minimum

• 26 glyphs
  

Equivalent

• 26 glyphs are equal to 1k.
  
• Additional glyphs are equal to ~38 words each up to a maximum of 3k per typeface design.
  

"

[(Anonymous)]

That looks good, with a couple of changes/clarifications:

* the file format for fonts is .otf not .oft.

* You should probably mention that any linked installable file format has to be done on an off-site page, as it is against AO3 terms of service to link to an installable file directly from the archive.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! I'll make those changes and then add it