HEY. do you remember when Nintendo made a typeface for Splatoon 3's Side Order and never elaborated? It looks a little bit like this:
Well I went over to the lovely @splatoongamefiles and asked for the font file. They gave me the file, all nice and simple, BUT it was completely unfinished... I really liked it, so I finished it myself!!! (files and images under the cut <3<3)
This is what it looked like when I started:
and this is what it looks like now!!!!!!!
It took me 6 months because I apparently started working on this in february, but it only took that long because of my laziness! I did, however, know nothing about this kind of thing before except for my vague interest in typography and fonts. I used a free font-making software called FontForge and I had to learn it from scratch and with no help. So I think all in all, it turned out pretty good!!
I also decided to name the typeface since when I downloaded it, it was called something silly and just for the files so I named it Spire after the Spire of Order which I think works very nicely!!
Now I'll talk about what's changed because I did upload beta version 0.2 of this recently!
added all the accents you can see above, but not ALL of them because im lazy
fixed lowercase k so now it looks like a normal letter
B - adjusted sizes of the upper and lower sections as well as sharpened corners of the lower section
K - slightly lowered the crossbar
L - curves of the corners are now slightly smoother
z - raised the top right corner by 1 pixel so its no longer 1 pixel wonky...
@ - increased the gap on the left side
deleted all the original file's kerning and did it myself >:)
and lastly! here's the link to download the typeface!!!!!! if you do use it somewhere credit is always appreciated :)))) and do let me know because i'd love to see!!! <3
p.s. if there are any specific characters/glyphs that I haven't added but u really need please dont hesitate to let me know!!!!
its time for the second beta version of the Splatoon 3 Side Order incomplete font!!!! again as a .tff file, and its gonna be here if anybody wants to play with it :)
heres what it looks like at the moment!!! (ignore those 3 russian characters they're just there for reference)
patch notes going from version 0.1 to 0.2 i suppose:
added uppercases B C R T Y Z
added lowercases k v x (which means that lowercases is complete!!!)
added punctuation marks ! , . : ; ? @
fixed heights of p, q, f and r
c has been adjusted and redone
O has been widened and rounded more to differentiate it from the number 0
added grave and acute accent characters for both e and E
notes and things that will NEED to change for the full release:
k needs to be figured out for real this time
Q and L are not going to stay as O and r
the я needs to be removed from R
letter spacing needs to be done (will be the last thing i do!!)
and lastly, here's the link to download beta v0.2 :)
the alphabet is complete!! all letters, lowercases AND uppercases have been completed!!!! YIPPEEEE assuming i dont decide to suddenly any of them they all look like this :) im pretty happy with how the g turned out just thought u guys should know >:)
if anything, the M and W will probably change bc they both look a bit silly atm but i guess ill cross that bridge when i come to it!!!!
but NOW since that there are 0 letters remaining i get to start counting down the punctuation marks and symbols... yay...
i'll also add the letters with accents when i get bored of making real glyphs bc adding accents is relatively easy (for the most part)
ANYWAY...
8 symbols down, 27 to go i guess?? i get to decide which ones im making and im choosing based mostly on whether they're easy to make and how commonly they get used... so it's just whatever i feel like. i'll obviously be doing all the common ones that appear on keyboards but if anybody has any special requests lmk LMAO
it's been a while since i last did anything for this but now its summer holidays and its began to consume my mind again!!!!
i am struggling so much with what to do for k and x... with k i have so many ideas but none of them look right and don't fit the typeface but with x i just have nothing... whats there currently is just a placeholder
sobbing...
in happier news i added the @ symbol and it looks sick as hell as well as a v that looks ok-ish
i also added capital Y and Z but i think the Y is gonna have to change in the future, it just looks a lil weird
ive also just been looking back on how i started and im actually like proud of the progress i made?? like i looked at my first post in this 'project' and i was completely inept at the program and i only knew how to copy, paste, rotate, and flip but now i know how to actually make the letters and :)
other than that tho i updated the x-heights of p, q, f and c in accordance with my 'patch notes', i added a little line for R so that now it looks more like an R but is still just a place holder, and i also started making some of the characters with accents bc the acute accent and umlaut are present on an e and a respectively and it gives me a false sense of progress so YAY. i havent done the letter spacing for each character/glyph since ive decided ill do it at the end as the final touch
18 characters/glyphs left to go!!! (not including symbols and punctuation.....)
