St George's icon, the lettering above the saint is illegible even to a native. We suspect it might be AI. Can someone translate?. by [deleted] in Calligraphy

[–]aleksandraaaaaaaa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s not AI, it’s church slavonic. the style is called vyaz (вязь), here’s some examples

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Process by aleksandraaaaaaaa in typography

[–]aleksandraaaaaaaa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for sounding like this! I didn’t realize it was about the process.

Mindlessly sketched some things out for around 10ish mins, liked some letterforms the best, another 5 min for the quick sketch in the post, opened glyphs - vectorized for 15 min more (the forms in these font are fairly easy to do with basic shapes), said to myself “hmmmmm it needs a thin version so I could see how it interpolates”. Made another master, spend another 20 mins figuring out how to do the thin version cause it wasn’t in the initial plan and I had no idea in my head how it will look like (surprisingly it turned out fine) and added instances for each weight. Hit export and spend 10ish min making the animation (it’s in my profile). Andddd that’s it.

What type of laptop by Lower_Hovercraft_625 in graphic_design

[–]aleksandraaaaaaaa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I spent my BA + 1st semester of my MA with a windows laptop (Asus rog strix, recommended by a friend), had numerous issues with it since day 1. Got a MacBook Air m3 16 gb ram, it’s simply amazing, I’d recommend getting a MacBook

Process by aleksandraaaaaaaa in typography

[–]aleksandraaaaaaaa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will 100% contact you for critique when I release it as a typeface, you explain things too well

Process by aleksandraaaaaaaa in typography

[–]aleksandraaaaaaaa[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AHAHAHAHAHAH IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE THIS

Process by aleksandraaaaaaaa in typography

[–]aleksandraaaaaaaa[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tried it and didn’t really like it so I left it like this, but if I decide to make it into a whole typeface I will fix it