My final entry in the competition. Inspired by Mazey, zlabyrinths eYe/FS, and wavelength. Each glyph has its own maze, and each maze connects with the next. Tilde ~ and low line _ connect words, grave ` closes beginnings and ends, and the left and right arrows < > are for the start and end. There are also some alternates in Extended Latin A. Suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks!
UPDATES:
04/06/14 The whole font has been updated to be one brick taller, and thus properly fit onto a grid. Also, some characters have been redesigned. V2.0
05/13/14 All punctuation has been modified to continue a word maze. V2.1
07/05/14 1000 downloads! Hooray! As a 'thank you', I've completed more of More Latin. V2.2
08/22/14 I've made the accents part of the maze. I've also changed a few characters, and added Œ and œ. V2.3
08/04/15 Added Polish support with Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ś, Ź, and Ż. Tweaked a few characters as well, and added a crossbar to the ð. V2.4
06/18/16 Added support for multiple languages with more Cyrillic chars and punctuation. Also tweaked a few chars.
GS Unicode is a project I worked on over the course of several years so (almost) all languages get support! With 14,564 non-spacing characters, this font is finished (as of Unicode 13.0, and as of FS's pre-July 2021 glyph inventory). Please tell me if some of the characters aren't working. I'll try to fix them as best as I can!
This font will no longer be updated except in the case of fixing errors. I'm now working on GS Unicode 2.0, a non-pixelated(!) font that uses FS's current (all of Unicode!) glyph inventory, and is set to take much, much longer....
...so I'll see y'all on the other side~
If you want to know, A,B,P,S.... are (head)3:1(body).
MOST OF letters are 12x6 except I,T,Y,f,i,l,m,t,y
I've made the numbers thinner. i d even k y. but they look better like this
What about Long leg font? do you guys want a "Long Leg"?
[slashes](Problem solved)
are \ / % ø recognizable? thanks to Se7enty-Se7en and Cookielord, \/%Ø is now better.
THANK YOU \(◦'⌣'◦)/❤❤❤
[ogonek and stroke] (Problem solved)
ogoneks and strokes are annoying me. btw if you're speaking languages with letters that has ogonek or stroke sticked on. try to write a word with ogonek or stroke and remove the ogonek or stroke. and then recognize them
if you CAN. then why do you even put it on?? ¯\_(૦ઁᗝ૦ઁ)_/¯
coment below plz i need to know. :)
[asterisk]
if you don't like it, clone it you lazybone!
[Tags]
I don't speak english well, so plz tell me what is the tag this font should have. :)
This font is a free download, but some use is prohibited without contacting me first. Please abide by the readme which is included in the download! Thanks.
The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) was the largest agency of FDR's "New Deal", employing millions of people. Over 2,000 posters were produced by the W.P.A. to raise awareness and support the arts.
I have a lot of admiration for these posters and a style of sign painters' lettering (sometimes called “gas-pipe”) that was common in the U.S. during the 1930s-'40s. WPA Gothic gets much of its inspiration from this poster in particular. This FontStruction stays true to the sample’s simple letterforms, but the FontStruct grid does present a few limitations. For more refined typefaces in this style check out DDC Hardware, Futura Display, FF Golden Gate Gothic, Refrigerator, and MVB Solano Gothic by some of my favorite type designers, two of which (Parkinson and Van Bronkhorst) are East Bay natives.
WPA Gothic has a few alternate glyphs hanging out in the Extended Latin slots with more to come.
To get a look at the typeface outside the confines of the FontStruct sampler, here's a sample poster.
May 25, 2008: Released a variation with low-waisted "deco" caps.
2019: 10 year anniversary update!
– Loosened the spacing a tad more.
– Added a few punctuation marks, including dashes, bullets, and inverted question/exclamation marks.
– Tightened ‘f’ spacing.
– Lengthened the quotes and apostrophes. They were so wee!
– And I fixed that Å! It’s not pretty, but it’s a ring.
Creatures and Phantasy Insects
This is a clone of Kord´s CampingMy first fonstruction is based around the theme of malnutrition, but focuses on lesser acknowledged end of the spectrum, over-nutrition. I took inspiration from nature of skin and fat on overweight or obese bodies, putting emphasis on the folds and bulges you might typically see on the skin of a larger frame.
Diffused 33-Segment Pixel Matrix
a.k.a. 'D33SPM' {by dpla}
7- to 33-segment progression
(bitmap-only step-by-step)***
FONT MAPPING =
Abbreviations:
. 'S' Segment (#)
. 'L' Layer (I2O [Groups: 1/23/45/67])
. 'C' Character (ANSI)*
. 'U' Unicode (00+HEX)
. 'P' Position (Clockwise) [Matrix V1]**
. 'I' In/Inner
. 'O' Out/Outer
I to O table:
.S L C .U P..
==-=-=-==-===
00 1 0 30 Mdl
-- - - -- ---
01 2 1 31 N
02 2 2 32 E
03 2 3 33 S
04 2 4 34 W
-- - - -- ---
05 3 5 35 NE
06 3 6 36 SE
07 3 7 37 SW
08 3 8 38 NW
-- - - -- ---
09 4 9 39 NE
10 4 A 41 SE
11 4 B 42 SW
12 4 C 43 NW
-- - - -- ---
13 5 D 44 N
14 5 E 45 E
15 5 F 46 S
16 5 G 47 W
-- - - -- ---
17 6 H 48 NNE
18 6 I 49 NEE
19 6 J 4A SEE
20 6 K 4B SSE
21 6 L 4C SSW
22 6 M 4D SWW
23 6 N 4E NWW
24 6 O 4F NNW
-- - - -- ---
25 7 P 50 NNE
26 7 Q 51 NEE
27 7 R 52 SEE
28 7 S 53 SSE
29 7 T 54 SSW
30 7 U 55 SWW
31 7 V 56 NWW
32 7 W 57 NNW
NOTES =
* So that the FULL MATRIX can be revealed
by enabling all the segments (33 layers)
via "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW"
(or any distribution of this full string).
**
Now you may 'fontstruct' my 25TH VERSION…
(the "MARS:BENZ" test showcases this one).
***
The expected final & plain VECTOR DESIGNS
could simply begin with rotating squares…
Even in this early and geometric step #0,
all the 33 segment areas would be similar.
33?!
1 BIT too many… try removing S00 yourself
(or merge by adding a 'separating value').
Use the glyph SPACING as usual in x and y
(even by kerning the variable width font).
I started drawing many V1 GLYPHS on April
(+ several ANIMATIONS for matrix testing).
The inherited 7-SEGMENT matrix is a LIMIT
(e.g. no added border for the diacritics).
URL =
fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1505159
LICENSE =
You may NOT use D33SPM commercially
{OR ask for my written permission}.
2018
0126 PNG
0320 TXT
0401 TXT UPD
dpla
A recreation of the title font from famous bootleg "7 GRAND DAD", a reskin of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy which replaces Fred Flintstone's head with that of Super Mario.
it's not actually v3.0, i just titled it that so people would download it instead of someone's v2.0 which is less accurate
Dungeon Rooms - although originally intended as a utility for prototyping simple dungeons, has multiple purposes: writing letters within boxes, connecting the dots (maybe) or whatever you can do with it.
Currently it features 27 rooms and plenty of symbols to use within them.
STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS
- = + How to use this font + = -
1. Place a symbol (lowercase or punctuation listed somewhere below)
2. Place a room (uppercase A-W)
3. PROFIT!
- = + List of tiles + = -
--- Rooms ---
A - No doors
B - UP door
C - R door
D - L door
E - DOWN door
F - L+DOWN doors
G - L+UP doors
H - R+UP doors
I - R+DOWN doors
J - L+R doors
K - UP+DOWN doors
L - L+UP+DOWN doors
M - L+R+UP doors
N - R+UP+DOWN doors
O - L+R+DOWN doors
P - L+R+UP+DOWN doors
Q - L R path
R - UP DOWN path
S - L UP DOWN path
T - R UP DOWN path
U - L R DOWN path
V - L R UP path
W - L R UP DOWN path
X - DOWN-L turn
Y - DOWN-R turn
Z - UP-L turn
À - UP-R turn
--- Letters inside rooms ---
Each lowercase letter displays a 3x3 letter inside the box. Since 3x3 is ridiculously unreadable, I used some 0.5 bricks. Note that the lowercase and other entities meant to be placed within rooms technically have zero width, thus, to view them all you need to put spaces between them / set a high spacing value.
--- Add. Entities ---
. , ? ! + - / < = > \ | are what they should be, but within the same limit of 3x3
( and ) depict liquids (water, lava etc.)
_ # are dithered tiles to use inside rooms, while $ is a black tile
- = + Update Log + = -
2/11/2018 @ As requested by Se7enty-Se7en, added numerals. Also remade lowercases.
2/11/2018 @ As requested by zephram, added tiles representing some kind of liquids (water, lava, magma, anything you can think of), placed on ( and ).
2/12/2018 @ Added some Cyrillic characters and Greek "α", "β" and "γ".
2/12/2018 @ FINALLY ADDED "@"
- = + Issues to be solved + = -
- = + Solved issues + = -
> Since the font spread over the Basic Latin charset, I have placed some tiles in More Latin. For an easier placement of needed tiles, you can use Character Map app on Windows (Windows Accessories > Character Map). There, you need to switch the active font to Dungeon Rooms and double-click characters you need. They will be entered into the text field, from which you can copy them.
- = + Contributors + = -
Se7enty-Se7en, zephram
Designed for those members who want inspiration, it could guide them when they need ideas on which to base a font.
Use this like a font: close your eyes and type a 'word' with at least 7 letters.
If you can touch-type: forget it; you'll need to be quite unstructured in order to get a good variation of letters every time you want inspiration ;) If you want some uncertainty -bad spelling will be very helpful here;)- you could write the 'name' of the minute when you decided to get inspiration for a new font , inUpperCase ... then follow this with one of your names in LowerCase. But for fun and better chance at not getting the same word every time you need inspiration I suggest you just hit different keys and then look at the line of glyphs ;)
Just remember: use UpperCase to write the first part of this word, the LowerCase to write the other part of the word. Look at the [second or] fourth and the [penultimate or] third before last letter of your 'word'.
The UC will give you an 'image'. Your font will transmit the meaning illustrated by this letter (in the widest sense).
The LC gives the type of look your font should have. You now have 2 guides/ideas/starting points which influence the kind of font you make.
Remember that the UC should make you look at concepts, invisible messages and your own experience or lack of 'ken', as well as the visible things in the images I drew.
To express that differently:
Your font design is guided by a main theme (based on the UC) and a way to present it/a style of expression (based on the LC).The font will be influenced a little or a lot by each UC 'image'; you adjust the look of your font according to the "feeling"/a memory/a dream or wish/an experience/lack of familiarity that you have about what that which my playful pixel illustration represents.
The presentation of the font, the style, how the eye slides across to absorb information or spends time to investigate the beauty or quality of every glyph, is determined by the LC. Combine these two aspects from UC and LC, that"s what your font will convey through the shapes of th glyphs.
In my 'comment' below I give you a few ideas of what could be linked to each of the UC letters; it's up to your areas of study, experience, interest, and the time you want to use for designing and building your fonts, which -if any- of the proposed words and concepts I mention will be the one(s) you want to combine with the type of presentation you found in the LC letter.
Choose a good name for your font, it's probably a good idea to have a name that isn't the keyword I gave in the UC list -- I can imagine that those key words have long been taken by font designers for their fonts.
Note: the "INSPIRED FONT" is still in development; when I have more illustrations for objects, situations, feelings etc or styles of presentation (I am open to suggestions!) I will try to find a suitable design to add to the glyphs as there are still a few empty slots in the Basic Latin set ;)
..:*:.. Have fun ..:*:..
Last version (#25) from the original (#1) – same doc.
This is a clone of D33SPMThis was unnecessarily hard to make. Most of the glyphs are drawn with continuous line. Each letter might have other ways of achieving the same continuous effect. But the main purpose of this fonstruction is to request some bricks from staff, I'll mention them in the comments. Thanks.
a cursive font
Upper case doesn't always connect to things
Lower case connect to left and right except for v and z
Latin , more latin(letters) completed
i'll make cyrillic(russian only)
If you don't see the letter you need in your language. Leave a comment to tell me :)