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Published: 29th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 3rd August, 2008 The Slurpee Font - Created and fueled by an unhealthy summer obsession with the world's greatest beverage you can drink/eat with a straw. A little interweb research gave some hints at a few more glyphs than the initial six glyphs in the 'Slurpee' logo. In some cases, like with the 'c' glyph, I noticed that it had been drawn differently in different usage. See here and here.
Being that the current Slurpee logo is Unicase, I decided to try and make uppercase and lowercase alternatives that can be mixed and matched for the unicase feel.
See also Chank Diesel's wonderful font Cosmic, which draws from the old school Slurpee branding.
P.S. The Monster Black Ice flavor that came out this summer was ridiculously awesome.
Q: What's with the name? A: At some point over the holidays, the movie Thunderball was on and I got to thinking about jet packs, Aston Martins, archenemies, Blofeld, SPECTRE and whether Miami is really worth 100 Million in diamonds or if it might have been better just to keep the diamonds instead of trying to save Miami. I mean, at the time of the movie, Miami hadn't even discovered cocaine yet and really wasn't on the map. If I were Blofeld, I would have picked an entirely different city to hold a bomb threat over. It was the sixties after all, take out San Francisco. Incidentally, at one point in the movie Bond finds himself in the Bahamas in the middle of a junkanoo, which is a kind of street fair where folks wear insanely colorful costumes (mostly of feathers) and dance around. Junkanoo! Now that would make a great name for a font. Much better than Thunderball. Is it too late to change the name?
Q: Your recent output - including this clodhopper - seems to be stuck on the 1.8 brick size filter, is your filter toggle stuck or something? A: Your Mom's filter toggle is stuck, buddy! And my next font will be called Clodhopper, and it will be yet another font built at 1.8 and it's going to be big and thick so you'll really feel it when I beat on your skull with it.
Q: Whoa! Touchy. Ok, how about that uppercase 'T', it's awfully funny looking, you gonna change it? A: Oh Boy. You just don't know when to quit, do you? The 'T' began as a spacing compromise but over the last few days it has grown on me - overtaken me really - like some saccharine soaked pop song that I hate but secretly love. So back off on the 'T', it's not going anywhere.
Q: Any last thoughts? A: Blofeld, Junkanoo, Clodhopper - all rad names for fonts that have yet to be born. Q.E.D.
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Published: 26th October, 2009
Last edited: 2nd October, 2009
Created: 1st October, 2009
The ‘Sans Serious’ Series is a group of tribute typefaces meant to honor Dutch designer and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer.
Along with Wim Crouwel and Josef Albers, Jurrian Schrofer (1926 - 1990) was among the Bauhaus pioneers of grid-based modular typography and design.
Schrofer's work experimented with type, light, and color and focused on mathematical shapes and pattern.
“Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily calledSans serious- but this was never his goal. ‘Is it necessary’, he wrote, ‘to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes’ Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms ‘made to measure’ as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, ‘Les textes sociologiques’ from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids.”
“In his booklet ‘Letters op maat’ (‘Type made to measure’, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven.”
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Published: 25th August, 2008
Last edited: 7th June, 2009
Created: 25th August, 2008
I took this epic digger while mountain biking in the rain last Friday. No real damage besides a slightly bruised shoulder. But while kneeling on the ground and collecting my wits, I noticed the impression left by my tire treads in the mud and thought there might be a Fontruction idea in there. Hydroplane is the product of that and represents a desire to stay upright, moving forward, with two wheels firmly gripping the terra.
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Published: 10th April, 2010
Last edited: 10th April, 2010
Created: 27th December, 2009
Because you can never have enough ball terminals...This is a clone
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Published: 1st September, 2009
Last edited: 9th September, 2009
Created: 13th July, 2009
Hunstrüct is my first attempt at designing a contemporary blackletter typeface within Fontstruct. The typeface draws inspiration from the long tradition of German Fraktur styled blackletters. The name Hunstrück is taken from a mountain range in Germany called the Hunsrück. Primarily I was aiming to build a face that would work well as a display type for gig posters and larger headlines but as I reworked the typeface I tried to strike a balance between text and display.
Big thanks goes to djnippa for his hard work in spacing this font properly.
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Published: 26th October, 2009
Last edited: 4th November, 2009
Created: 1st October, 2009
For a full description see Sans Serious IThis is a clone
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Published: 4th September, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 4th September, 2008
Good evening and welcome to the Steeplechase, Fonstruct's premier jazz club. Be-bop on over to the bar and order your favorite libation. The show is about to start.
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Published: 28th October, 2009
Last edited: 27th October, 2009
Created: 27th October, 2009
For a full description see Sans Serious IThis is a clone of Sans Serious I
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Published: 13th August, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 11th August, 2008
jet-ti-son
-verb
1. to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
2. to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard.
-noun
1. the act of casting goods from a vessel or aircraft to lighten or stabilize it.
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Published: 28th January, 2009
Last edited: 29th June, 2009
Created: 28th January, 2009
Thanks to the additional bricks Mr. Meek released, I was able to add the long lost family member—Playtime Bold—with just a few clicks.This is a clone of Playtime Rounded Bold
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Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 26th May, 2009
Created: 22nd December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.This is a clone of Playtime Rounded
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Published: 19th December, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 19th December, 2008
Sawhorse Braumarks is a hops & barley flavored family of dingbats I put together to compliment Sawhorse. They were made to be used as label art for beer bottles. The neighbors and I have home brewed up a wicked spicy chocolate beer to bring in the season. I'm not sure which is more difficult, home brewing or fontstructing, but they sure go well together. Cheers & bottoms up.
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Published: 20th June, 2008
Last edited: 14th December, 2009
Created: 20th June, 2008
An experimental face focusing on contrasting shapes and color.
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Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 7th February, 2009
Created: 21st December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.
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Published: 18th November, 2008
Last edited: 4th December, 2009
Created: 18th November, 2008
A mash-up of sorts. Microgramma meets Dr. Robert Moog.
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Published: 30th October, 2009
Last edited: 2nd October, 2009
Created: 2nd October, 2009
For a full description see Sans Serious IThis is a clone of Sans Serious III
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Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 22nd December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.This is a clone of Playtime
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Published: 8th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 8th September, 2008
Just a fun one I did last night while watching tennis and reading the latest DWR catalog (see page 72). This is a pattern Fontstruction based entirely on the Anni Albers textile pattern of the same name.
"Anni Albers began a three decades long collaboration with the internationally recognized design company Knoll in 1951. During the course of this partnership, Knoll released five of Anni's designs: Track, Rail, Lattice, Jhet and Eclat. Originally designed in 1974 as an upholstery pattern, Anni Albers' Eclat, was first produced printed on a cotton/ linen ground in various scales and color combinations. Reintroduction into the market as part of Knoll's 60th anniversary archival collection celebration in June 2007, Eclat, renamed Eclat Weave, is now produced as a woven, rather than printed, upholstery."
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Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 22nd December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.This is a clone of Playtime
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Published: 5th January, 2009
Last edited: 2nd February, 2009
Created: 26th December, 2008
A few pattern motifs based upon the Playtime grid and retaining (for the most part) the central block.This is a clone of Playtime Rounded Bold
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Published: 2nd March, 2009
Last edited: 1st July, 2009
Created: 17th February, 2009
Inspired by Em42's 'Dioptical' and various other Fontstructions carrier out by fellow Brothers of the Optical Cloth.
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Published: 22nd July, 2009
Last edited: 23rd July, 2009
Created: 25th June, 2009
This is a Sessions flavored remix of Saberrider's wonderful Poff font.This is a clone of poff
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Published: 16th September, 2008
Last edited: 16th December, 2008
Created: 14th September, 2008
The Chesterfield Royal Family was formed from my desire to add new weights to the original Chesterfield typeface. In the process of drawing these new weights, I began modifying some of the forms of the new glyphs away from the original Chesterfield glyphs in order to build a more flexible brick/grid structure for the development of various weights. The most noticeable difference between these three new faces and the original is the lowered x-height. That said, there are still some compromises between the different weights and because of that I've given them these royalty names instead of the normal practice of light, regular, and bold weight names. One of the biggest compromises occurs in the Prince weight, where I was unable to add the notch where bowls and shoulders meet stems (see King and Queen weights) without adding too much extra black weight to those parts of the glyph.
A work in progress for sure. Any help/thoughts/repulsions/bile appreciated.
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Published: 1st July, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 1st July, 2008
Inspired by the saccharine sounds of the ice cream truck, which has been making the late evening loop around these parts. Upper and lowercase letters enjoy getting all mixed up with one other like a melting Neapolitan ice cream bar. Enjoy.This is a clone of Pop Blox