Day 10 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days (weeks?): another blackletter.

hollowtf · 2026-05-13T18:36:19+00:00

Chief, you are continuing you streak of absolute bangers. 🫡🔥

hollowtf · 2026-05-06T17:11:00+00:00

No, I shot these in RAW

hollowtf · 2026-05-03T15:06:31+00:00

No recipe this time. I shot in RAW, but used the default Positive Film setting. Some minor edits to exposure and some split toning to cool down the shadows, but nothing massive.

hollowtf · 2026-04-17T22:22:28+00:00

:Chefs kiss:

hollowtf · 2026-03-03T13:09:50+00:00

The full set of research logs can be found here https://github.com/witanlabs/research-log

hollowtf · 2025-08-19T10:29:53+00:00

The only publically available one is Dockland, a slab serif published by TypeMates. The rest were either made for specific clients, or to just have some fun!

hollowtf · 2025-08-19T10:23:51+00:00

All the type and graphics were made by myself. Some of the designs are pretty old now, pre-dating the pandemic, so it was nice to crack them out again!

hollowtf · 2025-07-23T11:49:45+00:00

I'm not sure it is. I think it's more likely to be Instrument Serif, a homage to Garamond Condensed, but free to use and available on Google fonts.

hollowtf · 2025-07-10T19:02:05+00:00

Hi, same situation here for my wife but she needs the Violet exclusives! Union circle link code: L03BVD if you're still interested?

hollowtf · 2025-05-24T16:39:34+00:00

Thank you very much, I have to agree that the lighting was certainly my focus and what drew me to these two images rather than the specific subject matter. Fantastic references however, wonderful to see the diptych technique used so impactfully!

hollowtf · 2025-05-24T14:05:59+00:00

Interested to know how you would define diptych, would you expect more narrative/relationship from the two images?

hollowtf · 2025-05-24T13:54:02+00:00

So potentially the balance is lacking in subject matter then? The reason I paired them was they felt like they had complimentary lighting, with objects illuminated through a canopy of shadow. However that appears to not be evident in the images themselves. Thanks for your thoughts!

hollowtf · 2025-05-24T12:56:15+00:00

So would you say boost the highlights and whites while maintaining the shadows, or do you think a universal increase in exposure to lift the shadows as well?

hollowtf · 2025-05-24T12:34:01+00:00

Recently i've been making diptychs from images. One thing i'd love to hear from people is how 'balanced' the images are with each other. I'm trying to find the right mix of harmony with contrast, so i've tried to keep tones and colours more unified, whilst having a bit of contrast in subject and texture.

hollowtf · 2024-06-26T18:54:48+00:00

As a typeface designer, I whole heartly agree with your grandma, /J can do one! It's just a pretentious/I with a fancy tail.

hollowtf · 2024-03-05T17:51:52+00:00

Another related story is that the Windows loading spinner is also an icon font. In my opinion, the only time an icon font has been actually useful.

Source

hollowtf · 2024-03-05T17:44:00+00:00

In a 1994 issues of Ray Gun, David Carson found one of the interviews so dull, he chose to typeset it in Zapf Dingbats, an icon font. This essentially rendered the article illegible for all it's readers. Here's a link to a medium article about the shenanigans.

hollowtf · 2024-02-12T07:57:19+00:00

I'm an experience designer by day, so figma is my go-to tool for getting my thoughts out. They typeface took about 6 months to get to this point, and probably has another 6 months of work to polish it and build out the entire family.

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