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Halftone Font

Aug 19, 2013 at 20:10

I am in need of a good halftone font. Any ideas?


Aug 19, 2013 at 20:29

Nope. Not even a bad one.


Aug 19, 2013 at 21:53

that was helpful.


Aug 19, 2013 at 22:49

I also do not know of a purple frog with left legs of two meters long and right legs of 6 centimeters long.


Aug 19, 2013 at 23:01

I'm very sorry this is all you have to offer in life.


Aug 20, 2013 at 00:25

Basically what I think he is saying is that there isn't a good halftone font.


Aug 20, 2013 at 09:26



Aug 20, 2013 at 09:34

That is not halftone Fred


Aug 20, 2013 at 09:45

Nope, but there are a few "halftone" fonts in this section


Aug 20, 2013 at 09:47



Aug 20, 2013 at 09:56

drf said  
Nope, but there are a few "halftone" fonts in this section

Nope. Each and every font in that section - or whatever other section - is monochrome. That is, one color only, not grayscale or grayscale equivalent. Same old story all over again.


Aug 20, 2013 at 11:19

ok it's not halftone, but it looks like it is
Calypso by Roger Excoffon
http://myfonts.us/td-3xv8TM


Aug 20, 2013 at 15:15

True, a font is white and black (more exactly, full and empty).
But it's possible to make an illusion of halftone and gradien, using little points or lines with a various concentration and/or size.
Like that :
http://www.dafont.com/gotfaded.font
http://www.dafont.com/robbie-rocketpants.font
http://www.dafont.com/ams-trame.font
http://www.dafont.com/darthfader.font

Several time, the result is a very heavy file, difficult to use with some software.


Aug 21, 2013 at 05:57

Try Glow Gothic, for example. More here: http://www.myfonts.com/search/tag%3Ahalftone/fonts/


Aug 21, 2013 at 10:15

It'is also possible to use a classic font in a graphic software and to fill it with some gradient colors.


Aug 21, 2013 at 13:05

Then it is not a font anymore but a drawing.


Aug 21, 2013 at 13:58

True but if mousehead5 just wants to do a logo, it can be an easy solution with a big choice of possibilities.

Edited on Aug 21, 2013 at 16:47 by koeiekat


Aug 21, 2013 at 16:52

True, but mousehead didn't say so. Mousehead wanted a font. A halftone font. And that does not exist. Not even a good one, whatever good may be. What is good for one may very well be trash to me.

@Menhir, edit is just some typos


Aug 22, 2013 at 02:32

mousehead5, try browsing through Max Infeld's fonts, (Xerographer Fonts):
http://www.dafont.com/max-infeld.d3584?page=1.

He does some really interesting things with simulated grey tones. He has almost 600 fonts posted on DaFont, so the grey tone fonts will appear on a number of different sub pages.

I would recommend that you install and use any that appeal to you, but avoid opening these font files in preview. Many of them have the heavy font warning popup box before you can download. They probably use a ton of memory and system resources, when the panagram text is displayed at different point sizes. I know a thing or too about very complex fonts - I once made a single glyph test font that was 175 kb.


Aug 22, 2013 at 17:59

Thanks for the help. I'm going with ams-trame. I altered my original plan to make it work with this font. Not exactly what I wanted, but oh well.



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