dx fünfzig is the 50th font published by me!
'm kinda proud of myself--although some fonts still can be improved or remade, I look at myself at the very beginning--Zephram probably remembers my "Dungeons Rooms (not only)" which was my first publicly available Fontstruction--then I look at what I create now and I see a small yet visible progress. Not only that. During this period there is something much more important: YOU GUYS!
Special thanks to Zeph, JingYo, Sed4, SymbioticDesign and RMeek!
A medieval pixel font created for use in the graphic adventure game "Quest For Infamy" by Infamous Quests, (C) 2012-2014. Designed for fantasy / RPG-style video games. Uppercase letters inspired by: various German Blackletter, Old English, and Uncial typefaces; "Deutsch Gothic" by James Fordyce; "1454 Gutenberg Bibel" by John H. Schmidt; "Goudy Medieval" by Mentor Type; "Black Castle MF" by Rick W. Mueller; "Two For Juan" by Nick's Fonts; and Exidy's video arcade game "Venture" (1981). Numerals inspired by various Old English and Gothic typefaces.
Designed this for a game I'm working on. The Latin glyphs are mostly finished at this point - I still need to check kerning on everything, and I might tweak some glyphs during that process to make sure it all matches properly.
This is a clone of Penumbra Boldversion with less curvy tails...
This is a clone of Folletto FinoSTF_PRÆSENS - A geometric retro display sans
The source for this font was the lettering seen on the cover of 1930's second issue of "Præsens". A Polish avant-garde artistic magazine from the interwar period that was designed by the architect Szymon Syrkus. The letters on the magazine's title formed the baseline to extrapolate the complete font.
The magazine got published throughout the first part of the previous century and was similar to other magazines from that same era such as:
DeStijl, Wendingen & Het Overzicht.
Part of a multistyle typeface family "ALIENSTRA".
This is the first one that got finished for this project, a buch more will follow in this same family.
This is a decorated variation on the solid style (one that will follow soon as well).
Enjoy!
A little bit of a experiment in finding interresting letterforms in the most basic of geometric shapes and without the use of any complex fontstructing techniques. And the only expert mode feature used for this was making composite brick to get the different slants and stroke weights.
Bellow I will include some further in-depth info about this design.
But, I'm very pleased with the final result.
Enjoy!