How 'bout a link?

I uploaded to Myfont's ftp server Saturday night, now I'm waiting tensely. How 'bout too-small pix? These first 3 are something of a set.

edit: A link to the PDF specimen book is in a post below.

!Lestatic™ Carved

!Lestatic™ Slashed

!Lestatic™ Sliced

C'mon, give us a PDF! :)

!Lestatic : Specimens
(A PICTURE BOOK SANS PICTURES)

This is the 20 page ebook included with every font, showing the variants together, as well as a short guide to use.

The full collection includes a hand signed wirebound hard copy of !Lestatic: Specimens. This is 7½ by 9¼ with 4 bonus art pages not included in the online pdf. Well, technically, the font package includes a link to request the book.

Now, now, Choz, listen to Terry. He is quite correct you know.

Detailed link integrated above and sanitized. :)

Here are 3 more:

!Lestatic™ Withered

!Lestatic™ Lashed

!Lestatic™ Celerite

You have some really delicious letters in there, and I really love the look of the sliced variant.

I predict that we will see this on beach-wear. Where do you want it seen Choz?

BTW folks: the PDF is in the link 'A PICTURE BOOK SANS PICTURES' above. This may not be obvious...

James: Thank you very much. Because I feel this sits somewhere a basic display set and wildly over-themed decorative face, I was really not sure what sort of reaction it would get. After the pdbq set, which I love, my personal faves are the g, m and 0.

The 'a'which connects wherever it looks better, was quite a challenge. If I knew how much work it would be to make it behave, I probably would have skipped the hundreds of manual kerns it required. Now that it is done I tihnk it may now be the most subtle quality offered.

The sliced variant is my favorite too! To get the effect I used Adam's fontlab filters to do vertical slices (after rotating) and then hand snipped and Tweak. Lots of zooming involved.

I found it was impossible to get the slices to look good at both large and small sizes, so I went with "big". One goal was to make sure it held up on the same page as Carved, Celerite or other heavier fonts.

Eben:
My original vision was large, busting off the page, tight spaced applications, like titling for posters and such. Since developing !Lestatic: Specimens, I am most currently fond of the treatment of The Lashed cut, and see a lot of potential for that look, which feels to me, both modern yet with a historical ambiance.

Otherwise, I really like very long single line strings of text. The relation ships of all the vertical marks (Descender/Cap height/xheight, etc.)really suits this, I feel. There is a certain pattern of black and white that appears that works; I might be biased, but hey, I've looked at it a lot. :)

I predict that one style may get used for headlines and another for callouts. In the hard copy specimen, I have a spread that explores layers of stacked text in different variants.

Here are the last 3 preview pics. The condensed, naturally, don't share metrics with the full widths, but do with each other. Obsidian's metrics are also unique, as I expect it's use to be sparing.

!Lestatic™ Sliced Condensed

!Lestatic™ Withered Condensed

!Lestatic™ Obsidian Outline

I predict that we will see this on beach-wear.

When I saw it I immediately started thinking of two applications; the first being reprints of romantic poetry as the fonts would be perfect for editions illustrated with classic woodcuts—I would love to pair this fonts with Dore’s illustrations for a new release of The Ancient Mariner. I also think it would go well in a variety of fantasy literature and gaming publications, particularly medieval, steampunk, and gaslight settings.

I think you are well off the mark with this Dore stuff. But to each his own. Or are you ribbing us? It does seem suited to fantasy stuff & games though. I agree with you there.

Or are you ribbing us?

I was serious. The Ancient Mariner is weird enough to be set entirely in a nifty display type.

I decided I didn't like the older one.