I make serious fonts to help my computer programming. I also like doing conceptual things with fonts, like making them overlap to build shapes, making letters represent different things and building optical illusions of lines that are not there.
Personal URL | https://thisstack.wordpress.com |
Fontstructing since | 15th April, 2013 |
Fontstructions | 164 shared, 5 staff picks |
Shared Glyphs | 18452 |
Downloads | 1940 downloads made of this designer’s work |
Comments Made | 389 |
I went and mangled Spelunker by Zephram. I am messing with the shapes of the spaces between the letters. The name of the font indicates that most of the letters are wearing bell bottoms.
This is a clone of SpelunkerAnother attempt to make a readable font narrower than Arial Narrow. I am basing the letters on ovals now, to try to make them easier for my eyes to deal with at small sizes. Works well at size 9. Arial Narrow is still better than this at size 8.
This is a clone of UrialThis font atempts to represent letters that look like what is called the "God's Eye" yarn project for children, which has to do with winding colorful yarn around two crossed sticks. I've decided to double the size so that the X and T have the same internal dimensions.
This is the 7/6 block version. I've been liking this weight for programming at size 8.
Friendly Geek:
Good for...
- Labels
- Upper case
- Code
- Table cells
- Outlines
- Display
- Printing
- Informality
Not Good for...
- Normal Text
- Sentences
- Formality
Sometimes Good, Sometimes not...
- For each display screen size, one or two weights work well
I have changed the 'h' and the '+' to work better for programming. Changed the 'F' to make it more clearly different from the 'f'. Before it was looking a little bit like lower case somehow.
This is a clone of Friendly GeekThe idea is to read other alphabets as if they were Roman.
This is a clone of CheckovsFunI am very surprised at how readable this is in Microsoft Word. I did not intend this font to be readable. The whole idea was to use all angles and no curves so that I could hopefully have thousands of glyphs without the font getting too huge. Readability is a nice bonus.