A pretty cool looking free font

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16152

I get a free font daily from Font101.com (you can sign up for the free email dl yourself on their site).
Anyways they sent me this one today, and i thought it looked pretty cool.

http://fonts101.com/search/tk+architec.aspx

tstandiford · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:39 am **(#2)**

Freakin sweet. It actually does look like an engineer/architect's ansi handwriting. That's pretty awesome.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

thanks Rod, Kewl font

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16152

You guys are welcome.
They have some really cool fonts there.That is why i signed up for their free font a day newsletter.

Lorri · **Joined:** Sep 12, 2011 **Posts:** 377 **Location:** UK

Nice font Rod thanks

MrBiggz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:35 am **(#6)**

Cool!

I'm always on the look out for different fonts. I've always used DaFont but they have no font of the day kind of thing.

I did put in for that Font101! Good find!

Thanks!

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:21 am **(#7)**

It's a beautiful font but it needs repairing. I love the numbers! The upper case I and the number 1 are too skinny and putting the upper case I next to a letter that has a straight side makes the I disappear.

This is the word HIM using the font.

This is the result of using Graechan's metallica script. GIMP in all caps makes the I disappear like in the word HIM above.

I'm seeing if it can be repaired over in the fonts newsgroup in Annex Cafe.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16152

Time for some letter kerning!

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:54 pm **(#9)**

Character over in Annex Cafe repaired the font and made it much better. This is what he said.

Character in Annex Cafe fonts wrote:

TK-Architect is a terribly made version of the classical font "Graphite" available in many varieties from Linotype and Monotype. It was completely redrawn and so is not a clone.

None of the letters have any space on either side. And you can't even cheat by using the 'space', because it's w-a-a-y too wide. The lack of kerning makes it even worse.

So here's a modified version, with a new name (to avoid confusion), TK-Architect II.

Changes:
Re-sized slightly; reduced by about 10%.
Sidebearings added to all glyphs.
The space was narrowed by about 50%
Upper case copied to lower case for typing and display convenience.
EXCEPTIONS: The LC i and t are slightly fatter than the UC.
The ampersand was moved from the at-sign position to where it belongs
An at-sign was added
The font was auto-kerned, so combos like AVA no longer look like A V A

Hope this helps!

- Character

I've attached the repaired font. You will need to delete the original one in your fonts folder first.
Repaired font

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

thanks O

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Nice! Thank you

MrBiggz · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:28 am **(#12)**

Rod wrote:

I get a free font daily from Font101.com (you can sign up for the free email dl yourself on their site).
Anyways they sent me this one today, and i thought it looked pretty cool.
http://fonts101.com/search/tk+architec.aspx

Rod .. have you been getting the daily font list? I signed up for it and haven't gotten anything. I even contacted them via email and no response. =((

nixnine · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:59 am **(#13)**

I like the font, but the "I" and the "1" are too skinny. I edited the font to make them fatter. But are they too fat now? On the "1" I tried to make it as thick as the thickest part of the other numbers. Same with the "I".
I need to adjust the spacing again. The right side of the "I" is too much also.
Opinions?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:17 am **(#14)**

Looks great Nix!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

That is so cute O...love the little flower you added. That is a very nice font.