Experimental 49-segment display.
In making and studying other segmented displays, I noticed they tended to have strong-looking right angled lines but weak-looking diagonals. This is my attempt to make a design where both styles of lines look more appealing and join together more solidly.
A 5x5 design made to be very open and airy.
It has a much higher degree of internal consistency than most of my other designs. This was achieved by opening up the forms (A,E,F,J,K,P,Q,R,W,X,Y), minimizing the use of diagonals (A,K,N,X,Y,Z), using a soft 1px break to indicate curves (B,C,D,G,O,P,Q,R,S,U), and squaring off a few areas that are normally angled or rounded (M,N,S,W,Z).
"Ash Isotope" is an anagram for "Apotheosis". Bit of an in-joke between friends. :^)
Made by request: An experimental logotype design meant to be high-impact and high-energy, such as befits a speed metal band's album cover.
It contains my own inspirations as well as those of the band, who sketched a few prototypes.
This is clearly unfinished not only in terms of glyphs but also kerning. I was only requested to make the glyphs "AEIMNPRV" and the rest can be considered as doodles... at least, for now. It seems that there's a trend wherein people who make requests of me just want one-off designs like this as opposed to refined and finished ones. But, I'll continue this one on my own if inspiration strikes.
Finally, an All Stars that is truly "all" "stars" HAHAHA GEDDIT
This is a clone of All Stars BlackA font inspired by graphic equalizers. This is made to be animating continuously, cycling through one glyph at a time, so that messages can slowly be displayed within a very small space. Useful for streamers and others who work in video and want something to show short messages.
A rounded version of Pixelcruiser Flagship. I think rounding it off both made it better-looking and more readable! This now looks like something I'd use in pixel comics.
This is a clone of Pixelcruiser FlagshipAlternate font for the game "Naïvely". This one is made according to considerations present in pixel art rather than typography.
This is a clone of Naivetext SmallA font that walks a thin line, even when it walks on its hands.
This font tries to use the half-arc brick to its greatest potential. Since this brick isn't the same width as the others, it causes the thin outboard lines to be cut a bit short. This in turn causes the eye to interpret the corners they form as rounded, even though the curved parts of the glyphs themselves are very small. In this way the half-arc brick helps create curves and harmonize them with angles.
Fictional aliens' attempt at the Latin alphabet. The sticks and stems are repelled from the open parts of the letters. The result looks sort of like a hybrid of Latin and Korean!
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Original size: 8.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
Design rules:
- 11x11 grid.
- Square bricks only.
- 90° angles only.
- 100% constant height.
- Forms must fill grid space as much as possible without becoming unrecognizeable.
A fusion of Junglira and Quartzthrone Harlequin. The result reminds me of railroad tracks, 35mm film, barberpoles, cactus heartwood, orb-weaver spider legs, and more!
Some symbols and diacritics are left untouched, either for legibility's sake or because they happened to fall on one of the non-shaded rows.
Structurally, this is Junglira, although I did round a lot of corners that were squared in the original.
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See also:Navajo Deco
This is a clone of JungliraPortable Vengeance in negative. A few glyphs (such as "Q") were truncated for the grid.
Rather than spacing this so the blocks form a continuous reel, as I usually do, I decided to let things be a bit spaced out. This makes the font much better at attracting attention. And, since this is made to show system messages in games and consoles, it works out!
A pixel font for Western-style music notation. This allows treble and bass staff to be read and written at very small sizes, making it useful for pixel games, pixel comics, or anything else that needs to be at extremely low resolution.
Given the limits of the chosen method along with the limits of staff notation itself, this font won't please every musician. All suggestions are welcome for improving this one!
Original size: 10pt (use multiples of 10pt for pixel perfection)
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USAGE
Read the wiki article on scientific pitch notation if you need help understanding note-names.
_ draws staff lines.
` or ~ at the beginning mark your staff as either a bass or treble staff.
Use a letter from R-Z and then one from r-z to mark the time signature. (Most songs are in 4/4).
Use UPPER CASE to notate for bass staff.
Use lower case to notate for treble staff.
Use <.1234567890,> and {?!@#$%^&*()+} to mark sharps and flats respectively. I recommend using these markings to REPLACE the notes they are meant to alter, rather than writing them next to the notes as you would with traditional staff.
Create some new staff lines between each note to seperate the notes in time. When you place notes without these spaces, notes will stack up on one another. You can use this principle in different ways to create chords and arpeggios.
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BASS STAFF
A - A1, B - B1
C - C2, D - D2, E - E2, F - F2, G - G2, H - A2, I - B2
J - C3, K - D3, L - E3, M - F3, N - G3, O - A3, P - B3
Q - C4 (middle C)
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TREBLE STAFF
a - A3, b - B3
c - C4, d - D4, e - E4, f - F4, g - G4, h - A4, i - B4
j - C5, k - D5, l - E5, m - F5, n - G5, o - A5, p - B5
q - C6
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SYMBOLS & MARGINALIA
_ - blank staff
RSTUVWXYZ’"' - beat divisions
rstuvwxyz“”‘ - beat times
`~ - treble and bass clefs
- - 8va/octave up
<.1234567890,> - sharp symbol in various vertical positions
{?!@#$%^&*()+} - flat symbol in various vertical positions
There is no "natural" symbol. Your writing should take this into account.
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Have fun!
An omnilingual cryptographic system which disguises itself as a scrambled substitution cipher. Glyphs are prearranged in groups of four and it is the differences between items within these groups which comprise the actual information. These "words" represent and describe any sound made by any method with any frequency content, and their "strings" (monolinear arrangements) describe the shape, structure and context.
The details of how to properly encode/decode these symbols will remain secret. This is designed in part to inspire others to invent their own systems of this kind. Think about how to do what I claim here to have done, carry it out, and you will have devised yourself something which is human-readable on its own yet as secure as a One-Time Pad.
Gemseeker texts feature in several video games of mine, although the system is only used to display jokes and Easter Egg messages. People know I'm on this site by now, so I can't give them all away on here, can I? ;)