For my recent release of Rainbow Rocket https://drj11.itch.io/rainbow-rocket-font it took a bit of fiddling with the font metadata to get the 21 styles to appears in the font menus properly. So it's quite pleasing to see it in action (and a bit more amusing that the usual Condensed Demi Bold blah blah blah).
Screenshots from Font Book and TextEdit.
all the glyphs have widths that are multiples of a stripe, and as you can see (up toot) there are 6 extra stripes required in the 2nd row to fill the gap. I designed in the font for U+200A HAIR SPACE, U+2009 THIN SPACE, U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE to be 1-,2-,3-stripes wide. They can be used to center the text. With a U+2008 on each side (1st image).
For social media posts, it's a bit tight, and needs a bit of extra padding. So i add another U+200A either side.
So for my new Rainbow Rocket font, @iorsh asks a question that i was intending to address, which is basically, how come the words in "AUTUMN LEAVES" are centered? Why, in fact, doesn't it look like the picture on the right?
The answer is thinner Unicode spaces. It's why i published a blog on spaces: https://home.octetfont.com/blog/unicode-space.html
My Rainbow Rocket colour font released today (see up) includes a "Swiftie compatible" colour palette set. Colours taken from Swift’s albums, with the `taylor` R package as a starting point.
Represented are: TSSNTV - Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), RedTV - Red (Taylor’s Version), TS1989TVSB - 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Sunrise Boulevard vinyl pressing, and TSLover - Lover.
Swifties, follow and DM for a 100% discount coupon for the TS zip (4 fonts).
Rainbow Rocket is here! A self-striping colour font family with 21 colour styles, some for free, some paid for. Shapes based on Arugula (an earlier font of mine that also means "rocket"); colours based on a variety of mostly found things.
Here i show examples from my Garden, gifted toys, and a font specimen i found at the Letterform Archive.
Share and Enjoy! (please boost)
https://drj11.itch.io/rainbow-rocket-font
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David JONES