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Published: 27th April, 2024
Last edited: 9th September, 2009
Created: 8th September, 2009 Hunstruct's taller cousin.This is a clone of Hunstruct
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Published: 1st September, 2009
Last edited: 9th September, 2009
Created: 13th July, 2009
Hunstrüct is my first attempt at designing a contemporary blackletter typeface within Fontstruct. The typeface draws inspiration from the long tradition of German Fraktur styled blackletters. The name Hunstrück is taken from a mountain range in Germany called the Hunsrück. Primarily I was aiming to build a face that would work well as a display type for gig posters and larger headlines but as I reworked the typeface I tried to strike a balance between text and display.
Big thanks goes to djnippa for his hard work in spacing this font properly.
224767
Published: 31st August, 2009
Last edited: 31st August, 2009
Created: 23rd April, 2009
Italic but without the slant.This is a clone of Friendly serif
2811005
Published: 2nd August, 2009
Last edited: 2nd August, 2009
Created: 2nd August, 2009
An improved version of the originalThis is a clone of Gothicky Grey
239174337
Published: 22nd July, 2009
Last edited: 23rd July, 2009
Created: 25th June, 2009
This is a Sessions flavored remix of Saberrider's wonderful Poff font.This is a clone of poff
3421224
Published: 21st July, 2009
Last edited: 20th July, 2009
Created: 27th October, 2008
Karuso. As in Robinson Caruso. Because it should be shipwrecked on a deserted island. That's where I planned to leave it in private (and you're probably thinking that's where I should have left it). Check the creation date - it's been stranded for a while.
This is the first in a set of text face experiments, and it reveals the beginnings of an evolution of high contrast fontstructing over a minimized grid space. Not all glyphs are how I wanted them to be. Some may be hideous. The spacing is terrible. But as a fontstruction, this one really got me to push the bricks to develop some resemblance of a Times Romanesque sharp serif typeface. Many, many tricks had to come in to play to make this happen at its current state. Overlapping bricks, brick stacking, overlapping brick stacking. It's all in there. I learned a lot from this insane attempt just from the lowercase letter forms alone. I mean, just look at that g! Try it at your own risk. 6x8 grid space, Double XY.
But don't worry, this is as bad as it gets. It does get better from here, but only a little bit, so don't get your hopes up. Stay tuned.This is a clone
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Published: 22nd July, 2009
Last edited: 13th July, 2009
Created: 11th July, 2009
This is a clone/remix of Micromoog. This font should ONLY be used to set the titles for a bad Michael Bay movie where the plot features an alien breed of energy drink swillin' robots that fight against extreme sport celebrities in an attempt to rid the earth of BMX bikes, skateboards, all neon colors & fun.
Lowercase carries a full set of X-TREME alternates. This is a clone of Micromoog
120114225
Published: 30th May, 2009
Last edited: 30th June, 2009
Created: 27th May, 2009
A tribute to Josef Albers: inadvertently inspired by saberrider and afrojet.
This font totally happened by accident. Recently, saberrider created steep, which uses a 2.0 x 1.11 filter setting to smoothly blend the quarter-circle bricks into the triangles. After saberrider created his experimental variable scale fontstruction, it lead me to revisit an abandoned work I did from last year that was done in a similar scale. After getting over the initial disgust of looking at the dismal failure, I started tweaking. Then I decided to tweak the letters instead. It became apparent that I could create a stencil type font that also looked like Josef Alber's font. Coincidentally, Saberrider also has a variation with fontstract,
and of course, that Stewf guy has his own family of Leaflets. ;-) Afrojet's sessions came into play in creating some of the letter forms, especially the numerals. The final filter setting became 1.638 x 1.08, which created a nice fusion of the curved and triangular bricks, but was also naturally inclined to necessitate the vertical divide on each glyph. The rest flowed rather easily from there. Here's to more happy accidents. =)
The sample is also a tribute to Alber's color theory, showing the names in identical colors, which, when juxtaposed over contrasting colors tricks the eye into thinking the bottom name is darker than the top.
The following Josef Albers quote can relate to all things creative, like fontstructing, not just color:
"It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories.
As we begin principally with the material, color itself, and its action and interaction as registered in our minds, we practice first and mainly a study of ourselves.
Thus, we replace looking backward by looking first at ourselves and our surroundings, and replace retrospection with introspection."
- Josef Albers
This is a clone
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Published: 24th June, 2009
Last edited: 29th June, 2009
Created: 23rd June, 2009
Experimenting with reverse glyph building (knockouts) to create a modular monoline font with more fluid, rounded shapes.
A work in progress. I would appreciate any and all feedback, suggestions, etc.This is a clone
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Published: 29th September, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 29th September, 2008
Old celtic style font. Now with some diacritics and variants. Most of the vowels can have an acute over them, and many of the consonants can have dots. The dots make them be pronounced as if they were followed by an H, e.g. Th, Sh. Ë is a variant of R, Ì is a variant of S and Î is a variant of S with a dot above. Ï is the Irish symbol for "agus" or "and".
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Published: 28th October, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 18th October, 2008
Further exploration of the...this...style of type design. I was going to do the uppercase but then I realized that I wasn't. Go figure.
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Published: 10th August, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 10th August, 2008
this electricity
injected into me
emotions running over me
and when you're getting close
you touch my innermost
a feeling deep inside me knows
—"circuit breaker", röyksopp
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Published: 8th March, 2009
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 7th March, 2009
Inspired by the 90ies computer game BlockOut, some sort of 3D Tetris.
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Published: 4th September, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 4th September, 2008
Good evening and welcome to the Steeplechase, Fonstruct's premier jazz club. Be-bop on over to the bar and order your favorite libation. The show is about to start.
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Published: 27th March, 2009
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 27th March, 2009
Permutation: The act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements.
One font, two different brick combinations.
Picking any two bricks from the 169 available gives a total possible combinations of 14196 (169C2) different fonts. Counting a certain kinds of bricks as one--all four 45degree, for instance--gives 36 unique bricks, resulting in 630 (36C2) unique combinations or fonts.
In this font, if the bricks are swapped with each other, the result will be a different font. Hence order of the bricks matter. In which case, nCr (combinations) is not the right choice. What's needed is nPr (permutations). 169P2 gives 28392 permutations and a 36P2 gives 1260 permutations.
So, at a minimum, 1260 fonts are possible with the current implementation of FontStruct, with just this particular layout of bricks.
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Published: 9th July, 2008
Last edited: 23rd June, 2009
Created: 9th July, 2008
A bit of a mish-mash of terminals going on here. One tries these things to see if they work...
2101446
Published: 20th May, 2009
Last edited: 23rd June, 2009
Created: 18th May, 2009
Like 'Simple Fraktur' but with bigger decorative capitals in a black square frame. working on the diacritics.This is a clone of Simple Fraktur
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Published: 1st July, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 1st July, 2008
Inspired by the saccharine sounds of the ice cream truck, which has been making the late evening loop around these parts. Upper and lowercase letters enjoy getting all mixed up with one other like a melting Neapolitan ice cream bar. Enjoy.This is a clone of Pop Blox
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Published: 29th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 3rd August, 2008 The Slurpee Font - Created and fueled by an unhealthy summer obsession with the world's greatest beverage you can drink/eat with a straw. A little interweb research gave some hints at a few more glyphs than the initial six glyphs in the 'Slurpee' logo. In some cases, like with the 'c' glyph, I noticed that it had been drawn differently in different usage. See here and here.
Being that the current Slurpee logo is Unicase, I decided to try and make uppercase and lowercase alternatives that can be mixed and matched for the unicase feel.
See also Chank Diesel's wonderful font Cosmic, which draws from the old school Slurpee branding.
P.S. The Monster Black Ice flavor that came out this summer was ridiculously awesome.
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Published: 8th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 8th September, 2008
Just a fun one I did last night while watching tennis and reading the latest DWR catalog (see page 72). This is a pattern Fontstruction based entirely on the Anni Albers textile pattern of the same name.
"Anni Albers began a three decades long collaboration with the internationally recognized design company Knoll in 1951. During the course of this partnership, Knoll released five of Anni's designs: Track, Rail, Lattice, Jhet and Eclat. Originally designed in 1974 as an upholstery pattern, Anni Albers' Eclat, was first produced printed on a cotton/ linen ground in various scales and color combinations. Reintroduction into the market as part of Knoll's 60th anniversary archival collection celebration in June 2007, Eclat, renamed Eclat Weave, is now produced as a woven, rather than printed, upholstery."
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Published: 15th May, 2009
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 15th May, 2009
I put this one together very quickly. Diacritics and punctuation are coming soon.
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Published: 13th August, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 11th August, 2008
jet-ti-son
-verb
1. to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
2. to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard.
-noun
1. the act of casting goods from a vessel or aircraft to lighten or stabilize it.