15 lines
866 B
Plaintext
15 lines
866 B
Plaintext
Agave was an attempt at making a small, monospaced, outline font that would be
|
|
geometrically regular and simple. The endeavor was motivated by a deep adoration
|
|
of old-school console bitmap fonts, of Consolas, of Pragmata Pro, as well as a
|
|
novice's curiosity for typographical design.
|
|
|
|
When it came to establishing a "simple" design scheme, the natural inclination
|
|
was to separate the glyph design concerns into that of "frame" and "trait". By
|
|
frame, we refer to the naive geometric extent of a glyph and its parts. And by
|
|
trait, we mean, for example, the "way" in which a stroke curves, or the
|
|
relationship between one part of a glyph and another.
|
|
|
|
Adhering to personal tastes, bone-deep laziness, and the quirky spirit of old
|
|
computer terminal fonts, the delineations of frame and trait amounted to two
|
|
mathematical patterns: the power of two and the golden ratio.
|