Block Change Request: Invisible signs

[Homiesucc]

Request: Invisible signs

Request Type: General Addition

Try to describe all workarounds and associated issues that make it necessary to add this block in your eyes.
invisible signs so it looks like words are engraved onto blocks like stone, used for statues, signs, etc.

thats it thats the request

 

[FD001__]

Request: Invisible signs

Request Type: General Addition

Try to describe all workarounds and associated issues that make it necessary to add this block in your eyes.
invisible signs so it looks like words are engraved onto blocks like stone, used for statues, signs, etc.

thats it thats the request

There would need to be a font change though - because the current sign font is sans-serif and that didn't exist until around 100 years ago.

Which would involve more than you think.

 

[lemonbear]

There would need to be a font change though - because the current sign font is sans-serif and that didn't exist until around 100 years ago.

Which would involve more than you think.

Technically sans serif fonts have been used for thousands of years, especially in stone carvings. We'd probably just want to stick with capital letters, though.

 

[FD001__]

Technically sans serif fonts have been used for thousands of years, especially in stone carvings. We'd probably just want to stick with capital letters, though.

Yes, having looked again I saw that it is fairly old - but in the Middle Ages I was under the impression that serif fonts were easier to carve for unskilled carvers.

 

[AerioOndos]

Serifs require a lot of effort to get the rounding right and the small serifs at the right spot. Serif are legible and that's the most important bit.

Serif carvings took time and money and were impressive. You'd have to chisel downwards or upwards to create the line, then flesh it out and smooth the edges with smaller cuts.
Straight lines like you'll find on Norse runestones (just the letters, not the intricate carvings on some) are considerably faster as you can just beat a few strokes on the chisel in one direction. Easy to copy text and do longer passages as it stacks more closely together too.
Best example of this in Europe with stone carving imo is ogham script, which has words based on a single stave and letters are arrangements of straight lines on it.

Generally, if it's harder to draw it well, it's also harder to carve well

 

[FD001__]

Serifs require a lot of effort to get the rounding right and the small serifs at the right spot. Serif are legible and that's the most important bit.

Serif carvings took time and money and were impressive. You'd have to chisel downwards or upwards to create the line, then flesh it out and smooth the edges with smaller cuts.
Straight lines like you'll find on Norse runestones (just the letters, not the intricate carvings on some) are considerably faster as you can just beat a few strokes on the chisel in one direction. Easy to copy text and do longer passages as it stacks more closely together too.
Best example of this in Europe with stone carving imo is ogham script, which has words based on a single stave and letters are arrangements of straight lines on it.

Generally, if it's harder to draw it well, it's also harder to carve well

I made this with photoshop just to f*ck about with the carving blocks.

 

[Homiesucc]

made a quick texture for the signs so you can see what I mean VVV