12368411
Published: 4th November, 2008
Last edited: 30th June, 2023
Created: 4th November, 2008
The 'why not' version...with a guentersen style heart at the dagger.
127106640
Published: 12th May, 2010
Last edited: 6th April, 2020
Created: 12th May, 2010
A quick test of the new fractional composites. And to see if there are any abnormalities that come up.
9388644
Published: 20th January, 2010
Last edited: 4th April, 2019
Created: 17th January, 2010
Warning: Work in progress. I'm just putting it up because it finally has a complete lowercase alphabet & so is actually usable in limited cases.
The goal with this project is to create a humanist italic close to a Caslon, but within Fontstruct limitations. The x-height here is actually quite small: 6 blocks tall.
This one seems to stand small point sizes surprisingly well. At larger sizes, it begins to look jagged but that's actually kind of nice. Of course kerning is all over the place. Not to mention the lack of capitals, punctuation, etc. There will be changes. Use with caution.
8168138
Published: 24th May, 2010
Last edited: 31st December, 2018
Created: 12th May, 2010
Renovare S2. Solution 2 or Serif 2. Clone of Renovare S1.
In contrast to Renovare S1, a thickening of the serif makes way for efficient curved brick usage leading to a smoother and more natural slabtastic appearance.
Revamped from a corrupted version of Renovare S1 and may suffer from the same instability. Handle with care. Downloaded normally for me. Please let me know if there are any problems. Thx.
052410
Edit 011915. Cap S and lc s smoothed out using nudged bricksThis is a clone
13045884232
Published: 4th June, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2018
Created: 1st October, 2008
This took me many, many hours of trying, learning, erasing and restarting. Especially the design of the caps was hard; sooo many possibilities! However, i'm proud to present you my first real blackletter font :) I would like to add some more glyphs to the "more latin" set, but the size seems to be close to the download limit. It's downloadable yet, but i had to erase some glyphs...
ps:
there's an alternate "a" on "@",
and some decorative stuff on "#" and "*".
cheers
85167127
Published: 11th May, 2010
Last edited: 8th September, 2015
Created: 7th May, 2010
051010. Unintentionally Serpentinesque with composited and stacked bricks galore.
080815. Ss redone. Numbers added
64208914
Published: 28th July, 2009
Last edited: 18th February, 2015
Created: 17th July, 2009
The last and most difficult of the sharp serif experiments. Created on an 8 wide by 5 high base grid space. Unconventionally fontstructed while adhering to the impositions of the law of the brick. What do I mean? Just try recreating the letter A. It shouldn't be possible, so I did it anyway.
2322120983
Published: 11th July, 2010
Last edited: 24th January, 2015
Created: 28th May, 2010
Yep another blackletter. This is my first font. I Love blackletter and its formal/modular structure seemed an obvious choice for fontstruct. I wanted something kinda simple and stripped back with caps that integrated well and didn't bring too much attention to themselves. That capital N brings attention to itself...
105107281
Published: 26th May, 2010
Last edited: 11th December, 2014
Created: 25th May, 2010
052610. Another quick experiment with thin bricks. 1920's Broadway feel.
121114. Revisited the curves and smoothed out everything using subtle nudges.
1914566129
Published: 2nd June, 2010
Last edited: 26th August, 2014
Created: 25th May, 2010
I used a high-resolution grid and lots of FS 2.0 features to create this.
The x-height is 132 grid squares.
I used many of the new angles enabled by FS 2.0 (1:8, 1:6, 1:4, 1:3, 2:3) in an attempt to create very smooth curves.
UPDATE - 2014/07/25
Added a few numbers.This is a clone
47410613
Published: 23rd July, 2009
Last edited: 15th August, 2014
Created: 21st July, 2009
Effleurage brick massage. Sharp and curvy 6x10 grid space experiment. Weird spacing due to double size filtering in conjunction with half bricks makes this mostly unusable. But that's why there's alternate spaced letters instead of numbers...for now. The spacing is compensated to look better in actual use than on the preview. Minimal space tweaking was done on the sample, but wherever the spacing was really off (which was pretty much everywhere), the alternate space character was used.
Alt spacing characters:
a = 1
s = 2
x = 3
z = 4
Z = 5
S = 6
e = 7
o = 8
t = \
g = ^
s = |
Ligatures:
fi = @
ff = _
fl = #
ffl = /This is a clone
2901440112
Published: 20th July, 2008
Last edited: 3rd August, 2014
Created: 15th July, 2008
Clone of Prometheus Light (Basic Set), which is based on condensed Grecian typefaces by Darius Wells and William Hamilton Page. Many Grecian wood type samples lack lower case characters or numerals (or both!)... hence my sampling of different sources.This is a clone
187485
Published: 20th September, 2009
Last edited: 28th December, 2012
Created: 5th September, 2009
This came out of my first attempt at using filters ... set to 1:2
7612567187
Published: 25th May, 2009
Last edited: 24th August, 2012
Created: 23rd May, 2009
I filled it, kix. :) ----- It appears as a clone because that's where it started but every character is built from scratch. kix' brilliant original is an understatement of perfection, using the least amount of bricks for such a grand effect. However, it left not much space inside for any kind of meaningful rendering. Had to quadruple each glyph in order to get enough brick space inside to get some effect going. In the process I came to appreciate the true brilliance of the design and the awesomeness of certain characters. G, for instance. I have scaled everything up, but have not taken any liberties with the shapes—they are true to the original. If a certain glyph is off, it is due to my ineffective eye and not borne out of a desire to change the original. (Point it out, and I'll correct it). Hope you like it. ----- I live in the third-world; it is summer (well, it is here). Consequently, unannounced power outages 2, 5, 8 times a day are standard operating procedure. While/when we have power, my ISP may not. Consequently, unannounced internet outages 3, 4, 7 times a day are standard operating procedure. Out of 24 hours, I get 3, 4 hours of internet access on a good day. Everything everywhere is UPS'd up the wazoo. Still, UPSes need power to recharge. I never know when the computer might shut down or lose the internet connection. Consequently, I have become a master S-pusher. Sorry for the server load, admins. :-)This is a clone
3502337191
Published: 15th August, 2009
Last edited: 12th April, 2012
Created: 3rd August, 2009
ASL is not a written language, but this font should, hopefully, assist anyone wishing to learn ASL.
The following is a quote from Wikipedia:
"American Sign Language (or ASL, Ameslan) is the dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the
English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico. Although the United Kingdom and the United States share English as a
spoken and written language, British Sign Language (BSL) is quite different from ASL, and the two sign languages are not mutually
intelligible
ASL is often written with English words in all capital letters, which is known as glossing. This is, however, a method used simply to teach
the structure of the language. ASL is a visual language, not a written language. There is no one-to-one correspondence between words in
ASL and English, and much of the inflectional modulation of ASL signs is lost.
There are two true writing systems in use for ASL: a phonemic Stokoe notation, which has a separate symbol or diacritic mark for every
phonemic hand shape, motion, and position (though it leaves something to be desired in the representation of facial expression), and a more
popular iconic system called SignWriting, which represents each sign with a rather abstract illustration of its salient features. SignWriting is
commonly used for student newsletters and similar purposes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
3344645
Published: 1st April, 2010
Last edited: 20th March, 2012
Created: 28th March, 2010
this dot font suffers from being a little too ambition:) as a result, a few of the glyphs have inconsistent heights. however i do think it sort of works with the overall style of the font - retro, maybe 60s or 70s. although this is the original file, it is not the original version - which was cloned and named Domestic Bliss Serif. this version was modified by removing the end dots from the glyphs, making it a 'sans serif.' i did this mainly just to see what it would look like. doing so resulted in a more open, fresh design.
1511917037
Published: 14th February, 2010
Last edited: 31st August, 2011
Created: 14th February, 2010
A pixel-friendly semi-condensed slab serif fontstruction. Deceptively simple in appearance, variable stroke thickness is achieved through advanced filters and a one-brick stroke thickness for vertical strokes.
I kept the spacing tight (and at an integer value) so it works decently well as a pixel font down to 8 pt (at 72 ppi this gives an x-height of four pixels and a breezily condensed form). Some funky spacing issues remain without kerning pairs. Kern as desired and remember to have some fun with it!This is a clone
962110722
Published: 20th June, 2010
Last edited: 21st June, 2011
Created: 20th June, 2010
Sketch developed from the first drawings made colaboratively at the Hacklaviva workshop with Dave Crossland.
More info here: http://hacklaviva.net/2010/06/e-ja-amanha-a-b-c-oficina-de-tipografia-livre/
3695078119
Published: 1st May, 2010
Last edited: 19th May, 2011
Created: 30th April, 2010
Yesterday afternoon I was sipping Coke on a sunny terrace and thinking about life, and the universe, when an idea came out of the blue about a new stencil font. The idea was so simple, I almost felt ashamed not having it much earlier. Back home I started to work on it, and created the first set of letters. It's a work in progress, fraught with imperfections, including the usual spacing-kerning problems. Remolino is a Spanish word for vortex.This is a clone
1021215344
Published: 4th March, 2010
Last edited: 11th April, 2011
Created: 2nd March, 2010
A blackletter/frakture font based on drawings from Albrecht Durer's "De Symmetria". The forms are designed to be compact, filling the space available, and so that they don't require kerning or letter-spacing. The display might mimic the lettering found in the Gutenberg bible, which would have employed a similar grid based type style to create a type similar to what might be found in medieval calligraphy.
761111519
Published: 8th January, 2010
Last edited: 25th November, 2010
Created: 8th January, 2010
For the first time a fontstruction went bad on me, when I accidentally edited it in two browser windows at once and saved it. This is the recreation.
3369913
Published: 24th July, 2010
Last edited: 26th October, 2010
Created: 23rd July, 2010
This one looks better in smaller sizes. Best at pixel size.
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I started with the small letters. Then I tried to create matching capital letters. I'm not sure about other glyphs.
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Any suggestions/comments on this are welcome:)
7967221
Published: 16th July, 2010
Last edited: 1st September, 2010
Created: 16th July, 2010
Stringbead as inspired by geneus1.This is a clone of stringbead
135247532
Published: 17th May, 2010
Last edited: 11th August, 2010
Created: 14th May, 2010
Union updated using FS 2.0 features, mainly sharper angles created using the composite feature.
Significant changes to the A, K, M, S, V, W, Y, k, v, w, y, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8.This is a clone of Union
225610758
Published: 21st June, 2010
Last edited: 7th August, 2010
Created: 2nd June, 2010
A simple block serrif that was frequently used on traditional narrowboats in the UK.
64811216
Published: 11th February, 2010
Last edited: 24th July, 2010
Created: 10th February, 2010
For now, apart from the provided 'fi' and 'fl' ligatures, all 'f-' and 'ff-' variations - and other alternatives - are within the capitals. More punctuation and to come and and any suggestions for further alternatives welcome.