As a child, I liked to play with plastic constructors. It was something much simpler than Lego, but these colored bricks took up a lot of my time, a lot ) And of course, I liked 8-bit video games. It was not long, somewhere in the 6th-8th grade of school. Not long, but fascinating. As I remember, that was the Dendy Junior console. All those childhood memories were reflected in the Depicto font family.
Out of respect for 8-bitness, almost all the dimensions are multiples of 8 – a letters elements have a width of 80 points and a length of 80, 160, 240, 400, and so on, as well the spacing between the characters and the vertical metrics.
The letters construction also uses upper left and lower right horizontal serif strokes. Such asymmetrical serifs are typical for Ukrainian typography since the works of Heorhiy Narbut. Their digitization and pixelization calls for a new look at artistic constants.
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The main font feature is a large set of 600+ pictograms and emojis, that can be activated using the Stylistic Set 1 “Pictograms” and typed right in a text with a keywords like :love: :smile: :happy: :sad: :pear: :rose: :horse: :bike: :house: :laptop: and so on. See the complete list of pictograms and their keywords in the Specimen pdf. In the animation below, the side menu of YouTube Explore is reproduced using the Depicto Mono font.
Depicto Mosaic is color font that contains both OpenType-SVG and COLR/CPAL tables. Every letter element is painted in random but non-repeating color from the palette of 17 predefined colors. This palette is selected in such a way that it looks sufficiently contrasting on both white and black backgrounds.
Color fonts supported since: Photoshop CC 2017, Illustrator CC 2018, InDesign CC 2019, QuarkXPress 2018, Pixelmator (macOS 10.14), Sketch (macOS 10.14), Affinity Designer (macOS 10.14), Paint NET (Windows 10), Microsoft Word (Windows 10), Windows 10, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Safari 11 (macOS 10.13, iOS 12), Chrome 70, Firefox 26, Opera 58, Edge 12 (Windows 10), IE 9 (Windows 8).
Also, you can change the color palette of Depicto Mosaic in Photoshop by using Blending Options with Color Overlay (see an examples below), or in Illustrator by converting the text to outlines and then Recolor Arkwork.
Using Stylistic Set 2 “Change Emoji Skin Tone” you can change the skin tone of emoticons (smileys). In the Depicto Mosaic style (on the right in the picture above), a classic yellow smileys become brown ones. And in Depicto Mono style (on the left in the picture above) the result depends on the background color – for a white background, white faces are replaced by black ones, and accordingly, for a black background, black faces are replaced by white ones. So just remember – when you change the background color from light to dark or vice versa (using Depicto Mono font), the faces appear inverted, and you can use this Stylistic Set to reinvert them back if needed.
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