Kathida, It's just a fun project, I find it much easier to design this in Blender than other software, may be because I am just used to Blender. Also here I used geometry nodes to make procedural guidelines, which feel little extra.
Edit: Right now it's only in design, making it actual font will require more work, and there are some more changes i want to do in design, so it's actually not available as font right now.
Also I am learning something new, so there are some mistakes too.
Hey, do you have some sentences or paras to show? As a designer (currently in automotive, but I've done plenty of text work and UI design and coding), I am just suggesting you keep the big picture in mind. See how this looks as a title, as sentences or as body text. It should ideally shine in at least one department. And when judging your font there you can absolutely spot disharmony in design or spacing.
Also working on this project made me realize, Hindi fonts take long time. Specially dealing with matra. I don't have much plan to actually release it as official font right now, because there lot of adjustments and changes it need. But I feel tired and burnout, so I would work on this In future.
Would be exciting to see if you ever went into creating stylized fonts for English and Indian Languages at the same time that feel like they're part of the same design system.
Very cool stuff, albeit a little hard to read at places. I also loved the idea of using geometry nodes for the guidelines—I now want to try using Blender for making Telugu fonts (I make typography in SketchUp, because it feels more precise).
Thank you so much for your honest comment, well it's not complete right now, also it's first time I tried making hindi font, and I didn't realize how much work it requires. So to start I only focus on basic letters. Making half letter is not that hard, but it requires time.
Well, I used Blender so much, that it's easy to do things, in the end fonts are just 2d shape, so.
Also I am trying and learning something new about topography and fonts, and if I switch to new software so now I have to learn 2 things at same time, ( 1. How to use software, 2. Font design)
I remember seeing a guy discussing about we don't have style fonts for native languages of India where he was doing a font, missed to save that one but saving this, amazing work
Wow, that's cool !!!
I'm a lot into sci_fi fake uis and visual environnement and your work speaks to my taste 🔥
Is see your grid in pic n°3. Can I Ask a bit about your workflow for creating the shapes ?
Is it mostly plane exctruding / grease pencil / some kind of grid snapping ?
Well it's just mesh plane, well used basic bevel, insert face methods. In the end everything will merge to 1 shape , so at initial stage they are mostly separate mesh.
Grid snap didn't work for all , so I avoid it, in place of that I use geometry nodes to arrange these to same line etc.
hi, really like this stuff... i have a suggestion(kinda), do you know those stencils over you spray paint and you get the letters and numbers, im sure they have it in hindi too... so making a stencil font would be cool asf imo. idk give it a try, and if/when u do, please tag me. ciao, thanks!
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u/deepak365days 17h ago edited 16h ago
Kathida, It's just a fun project, I find it much easier to design this in Blender than other software, may be because I am just used to Blender. Also here I used geometry nodes to make procedural guidelines, which feel little extra.
Edit: Right now it's only in design, making it actual font will require more work, and there are some more changes i want to do in design, so it's actually not available as font right now.
Also I am learning something new, so there are some mistakes too.