Country: Denmark Birth year: 1991 Apart from amateur typography, I'm very interested in linguistics and pretty much everything regarding language. I studied linguistics at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The Danish language uses the latin alphabet plus three extra letters (æ, ø and å), and I hate it when they are missing from a font. Thus, I sympathise with the other languages that use diacritics or alternate writing systems, and therefore I make fonts with many characters. The thing is, when I start I don't seem to be able to stop again.
Personal URL | http://christianmunk.dk/ |
Fontstructing since | 28th April, 2008 |
Fontstructions | 189 shared, 75 staff picks |
Shared Glyphs | 54770 |
Downloads | 23854 downloads made of this designer’s work |
Comments Made | 531 |
A decorative insular display font.
This is still a work in progress. I'm pushing the new bricks, stacking and nudging to the limit to create some nice flowing shapes. This is also a great opportunity to get working with some good kerning. Once I have the basic character set, this is going to be submitted to Google Fonts for approval.
I was looking for a dingbat font for map making, but I couldn't find one that matched my criteria, so I made this. Please tell me what symbols you want.
A - House
B - Farm house
C - Village
D - Town
E - City
F - Church
G - Fortress
H - Castle
I - Igloo
I took inspiration from Kurrentschrift (Spitzschrift) and the Thai alphabet to create something that looks South East Asian, but is actually just latin script in disguise.
I'm not sure I'm quite happy with the k. It seems a bit too twirly. The x i stole from Kurrentschrift, but I'm not sure it is legible in this setting.
I have made a font with International Maritime Signal Flags before, but this time they are coloured correctly (in grey scale). White is blank ( ), yellow is little dots (::), red is 33% diagonals (\\), blue is 50% diagonals (//), black is filled. Lower case letters are the patterns with no colouring, for those who want to colour in the fields themselves.
I have now added numbers. The regular numerals (0-9) are the square NATO flags, and the subscript numerals (₀₋₉) are the templates of the NATO number flags. The roman numerals (I-X, X representing 0) are the longer ICS flags, and the lower case roman numerals (i-x) are the uncoloured ICS flags.
On top of that there are four substitute flags, which can be found in the superscript numbers (¹⁻⁴) and the fifth fractions (⅕-⅘).