Rules of Aximen font design project:
1. All letter characters and numerals must incorporate a section of the staff (any part of it, the staff is fully represented by the I).
2. Norse Futhark usually used a vertical line at the top and bottom of each rune to show it's flow across a stone or woodworking, that would follow the contour of the media. This means that no character can share the base line, nor can it share a part of the top line (as it's complete design, if sharing a guideline, would effectively disappear, like an L with an underline at the baseline would look more like an I). These are immaginary lines in uppercase, but the same glyphs will be used in lowercase which will offer a lowline directly below and sharing the base line at the top edge, as well as a top line at maximum character height where the bottom edge will share the top line (top of character boundry).
3. Accented characters will show accents below the low line or above the top line and the appropriate top or bottom edge of these lines will act like character boundry. In the uppercase register, these accents must mirror the placement of the lowercase, even though the low/top lines are immaginary.
4. Extra points for incorporating more of the staff into the actual character design. The staff line itself (again, represented in the I) represents the line used between characters in some Futharc runes.
5. Alphanumeric characters should represent modern letters and numbers, but not look modern. But, they do not have to look like runes, either. Yet, they should still be readable, though not necessarily well adapted to speed reading scanning of normal letter shapes. No character need to comply with Summer Institute for Linguistics standards, guidelines or rules, and the characters that bend such rules the farthest are considered the best.
6. Each character should be taken indivually as if the only design problem. Individuality and uniqueness of each character is prized well above unity as a typeface. Diversity, even of style througho0ut the same character set, is encouraged and applauded.
The 8/6 block thick version
This is a clone of Friendly Geek SemiboldOne of the first fonts I attempted to make on this website was a cursive font, with accurate bridge letters.
I finally thought of a way to make it work; dots on both ends that would build a bridge if one mid-ending and one bottom was used, and gave an aesthetic if it was two of the same height endings.
I realized after making the entire font that there are no mid-starts, but I had an entire pixel cursive font, so I reworked it as shown.
I can make it the dotted way, too.
Strange, the S and Z look better as the opposite of the shapes I expected them to be. 15 letters are basic shapes, 3 letters are 1x2 constructs, 6 letters are 2x2 constructs, and 2 letters are 3x3 constructs.
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!
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2231576/circ-14
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1721148/lr-syche
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/851715/dolphin_sans_3
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/787470/fs_semi_circle
WIP
Rezkii chotkii shrift.
See more:
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1537870/amd-revived
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/744986/razorblade_4
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/252135/shine_10
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/370890/edge_31
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/836597/vermin_vibes_dystopia
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/38623/next_level
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/19330/e_keet_beans
Pluranon
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/115164/sharp_progress
Kreased
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/857936/nt3_01
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1179720/yg_rounded_redo
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/778404/ace_adventure
This is a clone of Femme fataleNumerous single brick pattern fillers and connectors, ready for you to use/clone/copy/change and put into your own designs or whatever.
All patterns are designed to work as a selection fill. So in other words: the patterns will always look the same regardless of the dimensions of your selected area!
They come in a wide range of styles such as: Retro, Tile, Seemless, Textile, Composite, Glitch, Minimalism
All bricks are stored and saved in the custom brick pallet.
Enjoy!