Free Font: Marain Script


Here's a new free font for you to install: Marain Script. It's my first one! I'll be using it in Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple.

I used a web service called Fontifier, so the quality works best at small sizes. At large sizes, you see the slight pixelated corners the web service creates. At small sizes, those pixelated corners just look like a grainy texture that fits an alphabet written by a brush. Hey, happy accidents!



The letterforms are based on the Marain alphabet, from Iain M. Banks' "Culture" novels. In those novels, the spacefaring Culture use the Marain alphabet because each character is unique and can be read in any rotation. That seemed to make sense for use in Do, since the monks and pilgrims are not bound by gravity either.

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Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2010 at 12:02 PM

    Pretty cool! Nice to see how you did it, too.

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  2. Daniel SolisSeptember 27, 2010 at 2:03 PM

    Thanks! I realize the video is a bit long, but hopefully people watch 'til the end to see how the font can be rotated and so forth.

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  3. Fenner PearsonMarch 7, 2011 at 4:35 PM

    I really like this, Daniel. What's the music?

    @fennerpearson

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  4. Daniel SolisMarch 7, 2011 at 4:53 PM

    The music is by Yasunori Mitsuda from Xenogears OST, titled "Bonds Of Sea And Fire."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2eKnPzwEZI

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  5. FennerMay 8, 2011 at 9:18 AM

    I really like this, Daniel. What's the music?

    @fennerpearson

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  6. madmosesMay 8, 2011 at 9:18 AM

    Pretty cool! Nice to see how you did it, too.

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  7. Daniel SolisMay 8, 2011 at 9:18 AM

    The music is by Yasunori Mitsuda from Xenogears OST, titled "Bonds Of Sea And Fire."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2eKnPzwEZI

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  8. Luke FrostMay 16, 2011 at 12:39 AM

    Daniel,

    Just used your font for these images, detailing some of the species from the Culture book 'Matter'.

    http://colouredvapour.blogspot.com/2011/05/holses-notebook.html

    Cheers!

    Frost

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  9. Daniel SolisMay 16, 2011 at 8:17 AM

    Fantastic! These look great. :D

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  10. Dgalla1993May 18, 2011 at 4:47 PM

    Finally i can write my culture name properly :3

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  11. Daniel SolisMay 18, 2011 at 4:50 PM

    Happy to help!

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  12. Anton KratzSeptember 2, 2011 at 6:03 PM

    Your marain font looks fantastic! I'd like to know, what tool did you use to create it (the font), how long did it take you, and what tool(s) did you use to make the video?

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  13. Daniel SolisSeptember 3, 2011 at 4:26 PM

    I set up the vectors in a defunct program called Freehand. Most sensible folks use Illustrator these days. Took about two hours to do the whole set. Used screencast-o-matic to record the process and iMovie to speed it up.

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  14. Rumah DijualMay 25, 2012 at 2:08 AM

    Thanks for sharing this useful article!

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  15. rumah dijualFebruary 25, 2013 at 3:45 AM

    How do we read it?
    rumah dijual

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