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.....)
the start of my wonderful journey to finish the side order typeface, which will probably also help me learn how to make typefaces in general...
i wanted the typeface from side order's title screen, and i asked the wonderful @splatoongamefiles if the typeface's file was available, and it was but it only had the glyphs of the letters used... and now ive decided to fill in the blanks..... with very little knowledge of how this works
anyway i've filled in the slots of letters that can be made by rotating and flipping other letters, so thats b, q, and u, which turned out to be easy enough
my only knowledge of this kind of program is that the lines function similar to illustrator's pen tool............ and so far that knowledge is not carrying me very far
im gonna be using "side order typeface" as the tag for this so if anybody wants to follow the journey :)
3 down
11 lowercases, 21 uppercase letters and at least 14 symbols left to go!!!!
i scrolled down a while in the file and discovered some letters from the russian alphabet and i used the letters т я and ж to make T R and x respectively, although that x is a bit freaky i have to admit!!! im really happy i found that because i really had no idea what i was gonna do for that R. i also found c in that set and i replaced my current c with it so now c is extra nice :)
B and C have been added as well
i also continued with the punctuation, after my success with the @, i added ! ? , . ; and : (the question mark looks particularly good too!!)
r needed to be very slightly adjusted so that it matched the heights of the other letters, and O has been widened a bit and subsequently rounded a bit more too, to help differentiate it from the number 0
14 letters remain!!! lots of punctuation marks left (more than 25...)
