WOLKENKRABBERS — Condensed streamline Art-Deco style lettering
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Enjoy!

a venture into neon art deco, inspired by tortoiseshell's "night lyfe" (hence the name~)

STF_DECOBAU — Bauhaus got Art-Decoized
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This is probably what would've been if one was to ask Herbert Bayer to design an Art-Deco style typeface.

Who doesn't like to kick-off the start of this New Year with a freshly lettered breakfast, and celebrate the arrival of 2025 extra stylish…
—Lets say in a Retro fashion!?!

Here is yet another of my blind leaps in-at-deep-end in the Bauhaus—pool. For this one in particular I have Art-Decoed  the living sh*t outta Bayer's defenceless innocent little baby child Universal—"Boii was I lucky that the world was too damn p4rty-h4rdy last night, bussy celebrating New Years eve. Cuz I gotta tell u this folks, she was screaming at the top of her lungs"  #nobodycame2rescue

The font is obviously not your best pick for a large chunk of Body-copy text, and is best used solely for Display application purpose.

There is only a limited character set present, but thats alright, since the font has more of a "decorative" value anyway.
Due to the complex nature in these small grid glyphs the characters lack nearly all optical compensations typically seen. —So yeah, this time y'all have to settle with missing overshoots and such.

Kerning is a WIP,
So keep in mind that at this stage this remains very incomplete!

I hope y'all still like it,

Cheers

STF_WALDBAUER — Condensed modernist Bauhaus sans
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This is rather a heavily condensed sans that sits halfway between a Bauhaus and Art-Deco style lettering.

The low waist, tall x-height, long ascenders and deep descenders give this font a somewhat elegant appeal. The uppercase set is clearly Art-Deco inspired, whereas the lowercase set leans more towards a playful Bauhaus mondernist style. Several characters have filled enclosed parts or other exaggerated features as well as non-filled alternate forms.

The idea for this font was inspired and extracted from a 1930s poster ad by Pál Vince for luxury luggage company Waldbauer.

The FontStruction's x-height is 3,5×1 grid units, so its tiny!

I hope you like it,

Cheers

Wip

Thanks to Sed4tives for STF_FAUX BEZIER ROTUNDS

This was a font made for the wedding of my brother and their fiance, many happy wishes for them and quite honored to have been able to design this for the occasion. Please enjoy~

a sneaky little deco font with numbers hidden throughout~

(almost forgot to publish)

WIP

Hashtag No Filters.

The font with great attention to numbers, from which its creation began and they set the style for the rest of the font. The result was an art deco style font with not the most balanced (A so wide), but strictly geometric proportions, as was done on posters of that era.

The name is in honor of Kazimir Malevich, the famous Ukrainian (USSR) artist with Polish origin. Malevich works: https://arthive.com/kazimirmalevich/works?_lang=EN

See more:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1781926/romanov-fractal-1

seemed fitting for a streamliner font to have a monicker amalgamated from two streamliner locomotives~

Dredging another font from the long-lost depths. "Zastava" was my first font to be given a Top Pick, a not-so-subtle take on the Art Deco classic "Bifur." The naming convention for fonts at that time was translating random words into other languages and finding the "coolest" sounding one. "Zastava" being a Serbo-Croation/Slovene word for "flag/banner." This reinvention borrows from the old trend using another vexillology term, referring to the swallow tail design of the "K" and "M" among others. Please enjoy~

SPOKOYNOY NOCHI — Revival of famous 1920's Art-Deco lettering
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☛ THE FONTSTRUCTION
Its sort of a reimaginative digitized revival of the famous lettering by Anton Kurvers, designed in 1927 for the Flemish folk theatre in dedication of Joh. de Meester jr. commissioned by Wendingen for the 3rd issue in the 8th series of this famous magazine. It is one of the many graphic designs by his hand. —Its a simple monolinear Art-Deco style unicase lettering with additional full size alphabet set of uppercase glyph alternate forms that is located in the Half Width And Full Width Forms Unicode block. Some global kerning was done, but extra pairs are still required…

☛ EXTRA NOTES ON THE ORIGINAL CREATOR
Antonius (Anton) Kurvers(The Hague, 23 July 1889 - Amsterdam, 29 January 1940) was a Dutch artist. He was a draftsman, lithographer, furniture designer, textile artist, decorative painter, industrial designer, graphic designer and book cover designer that became a prolific letterer in the public sector. Many of his lettering as well as other works can still be seen in public and on buildings throughout the city of Amsterdam. Kurvers was the student of famous Dutch architect Hendrik Wijdeveld(1885-1987) and started during 1911-1914 as a painter of theatre sets in Paris. This was followed by years of stained glass design. After this period he discovered graphic design. In 1919 the Public Works Department of Amsterdam hired Kurvers, and this position Kurvers made an important mark on the design of municipal institutions. He designed various public objects such as the blue Municipal Giro-box in 1926 for Public Works in Amsterdam. He also designed a red Holland mailbox for the Dutch PTT in 1929, as well as a blue postal stamp machine in 1936.

☛ THE FAMOUS MAGAZINE
Wendingen(Dutch: Inversion or Upheaval, literally turns) "monthly magazine for building and decorating" was an architecture and art magazine that appeared from 1918 to 1932. It was a monthly publication aimed at architects and interior designers. A total of 116 issues were published and it served as a mouthpiece for the architect association Architectura et Amicitia(Architecture and Friendship). Its association with Architectura et Amicitia didn't meant the content would at all be limited to just architecture, and specific special attention was paid to both visual and applied arts.

☛ In Modern architecture of the 1920s were three notable movements.
Cubist, Expressionist, Functionalism and Constructivist architecture. All three respectively had their dedicated artistic movements, and typograpy or lettering was no stranger within these movements. Wendingen earned recognition not only through its content, but also by its remarkable square format, but probably most nowadays in modern times for the striking typographic content by artists such as: H. Wijdeveld, A. Kurvers, E. Lissitzky, V. Huszar and many more. Editor-in-chief was Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld, another famous Dutch architect and graphic designer. Initially the magazine was an important platform for the Dutch expressionism movement, also known as the Amsterdam School, but later endorsed a post-expressionist spirit, also known as the New Objectivity and was a reaction against expressionism. The primary aim of Wendingen was to enhance the aesthetic quality of architecture and to serve as a source of inspiration for its members.

Wendingen was influential on Expressionist architecture, especially in The Netherlands.
—Another similar Dutch magazine from that era was called De Stijl, but it was more influential on Swiss Style and International Typographic Style.

I hope you like it,

Cheers

SEADWELLERS — 1920s Art-Deco Sans style
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I was somewhat inspired to do a Art-Deco style lettering of my own after seeing the stylish Art-Deco flavored FontStruction Aquamarine by IronClaws

Other than that the two fonts remain unrelated and Seadwellers poses no resemblance to Aquamarine. Instead I sort of did a 1920s Art-Deco style lettering with thin geometric letterforms. It's comes as a Majuscule only and the letters have nice quirky width variations, with some letters appearing almost extended, while others are more narrow.
— The similar aqua-themed concept is merely coincidental.

Only basic character set!

It remains a WIP for now..

Cheers

a chubby, chibi art deco font.

completely unrelated, but if anyone has a time machine back to the heavycomp, it'd be greatly valued~

a thorny, spurred, and banded deco font

putting a spin on an art deco sample found in an old typeface book. had some fun fitting that paper sample to the parameters used personally when making these little uniform fonts~

Sort of mixing ideas from "tuxedo blvd" and "tinseltown." Keeping with the "t" naming trend between them, here is yet another Art Deco font, "trailblazer," please enjoy~

a more elegant, borderline art nouveau/neon art deco

BACELAR & İRMAO — All-caps (Majuscules) 'Art Deco' display sans
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Revival of the Art-Deco lettering seen on the medical supply store sign of
"Bacelar & Irmao, Lda."— Porto, Portugal.

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I tried to keep it as faithful to the original as I could without compromising too much.

But in order to make them fit a complete typeface when doing these kind of revivals from lettering that were never intended to be a complete 'A-Z'-alphabet can sometimes be tricky not to have certain aspects get lost or slightly modified. As was also the case in this effort...

One of those specific changes for example was with the 'Capital A with tilde'.

In the original store sign the style of the tilde is fairly novel and unique. And seen in that particular situation used 'as is', its pretty self-explanatory of course, and works just fine. But viewed in isolation it is hardly recognizable as a tilde. Not to mention if it was part of a complete typeface that includes multiple accented letters. In that case I thinks it is very confusing and rather useless when it has to resamble the tilde. To overcome this issue I created a new capital letter 'A' with a more traditional and better recognizable tilde.

But obviously I had to somehow preserve that original and quirky novelty as well. So I included it into the location for the capital letter 'A' with ring above. I think it suits that spot much better to be honest. So in the end nothing really got compromised.

I hope you like it

Cheers

a sort of wild west/art deco font

art de(cow)boy?

roaring 1820's?

STF_THUNDERDOME - A tall thin stroked Art Deco typeface.

I tried to create pretty simple, elegant but somewhat wonky geometric letterforms.

Inspired by the later 70's Art Deco Streamline period.

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This remains a WIP, many of the glyphs in the Extended-Latin set aren't reflecting their Basic-Latin counter-parts. The character set remains far from complete for now, and many changes need to be made still.

Kerning done only for a few pairs and overall balance therefor is still quite poor I guess.

Some 'more' detailed but derailed towards the end 'in-depth' recap of this font could be found bellow in the comment section.

Stay tuned for more,

Peace!

DECO-TESK - Bold Art-Deco display style

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No filters
Grid: 4 × 5  (small grid !)
Glyphs: 3 ×4.5  (+1 ascends & descends for punctuations)

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My 3rd  font for the "HeavyComp"

It's a all-caps Art-Deco display font. 

A fractured art deco font, crumbling under its own weight

Please enjoy~

an art deco font pulled from the treasure trove of disney's "the rocketeer"

this also marks the second birthday for this little adventure. many thanks for all the help along the way :)

another soft deco font

a soft art deco font

Hard to believe that 10 years have passed since joining Fontstruct. The years have truly flown by and typography went from an unknown, to a delightful hobby. Many many thanks to those who helped me learn and grow on this platform, it's been such a fun adventure with such a positive impact. To celebrate, may I present "magenta" an art deco font for any typing needs. Please enjoy

This also marks a little turning point. The name "time.peace" was chosen at random and was honestly something I’d never been thrilled with. After much thinking, a new moniker is being adopted: "tortoiseshell."

"tortoiseshell" pulls from the tortoiseshell butterfly. Butterflys are seen as both symbols of time and of peace, making it a simple homage to the old title. There is another connection to tortoiseshell glasses, a style popularized in the 1920's, an era that has been incredibly riveting with its Art Deco movement. Lastly, there is a genus of the tortoiseshell butterfly native to my home.

"tortoiseshell typography" looks build upon old ideas while also growing and evolving into the future.

Cheers to the next decade and the new chapter~

another retro-futurism deco font, had a bit of fun with the lowercase "g"

a rather narrow art deco font