355316
Published: 16th October, 2015
Last edited: 27th October, 2015
Created: 16th October, 2015
My brother creates visual lighting performances. He talks a lot about particles, pointillism and images that are created from light. This led me to start with dots. I started with thick bold letters made up of rows of dots. I wanted to show that the placement of dots was important as it formed the letter. I felt this links to my theme, systematic. From a distance the letterforms however looked uninteresting and basic. I used a previous font as my template. I wanted to push myself and create my own font. It was after this that I saw a singular letterform in the Jigsaw catalogue that inspired me. I changed my idea to single outline of dots to form the letter. Then created another outline around it. Drawing on my original inspirations I can see my typeface being used for signage with lighting, as the dots can be replaced with lights.
This is a clone
140300
Published: 26th October, 2015
Last edited: 2nd November, 2015
Created: 13th October, 2015
The idea behind my font is having a shape then bending it round continuously without any breaks/gaps to create the letterforms. I have always enjoyed working with circles through out my design work and it so happened to be a recurring theme through out my font. I experimented many ways on creating circles using FontStruct - this proved difficult. I did some research on how other designers created their circular based fonts. Many used the circle bricks by nudging and layering to create an illusion of a circle. I feel that my font could be used both large and small scale. In large scale you can see the non-smoothness of the curves and makes it seem caterpillar like which may appear ugly to some. In small scale it is the opposite - the circles appear perfect and the curves look smooth. My font is very simple which makes it legible to read in both scales.
141370
Published: 21st October, 2015
Last edited: 28th November, 2015
Created: 29th September, 2015
My chosen theme was the word ‘continuous’. This led me to look at rope and the circular patterns within lace and doilies. The typeface embodies the repetition and intricacy of lace but also the strength of rope through it's geometric style structure.
93355
Published: 1st June, 2015
Last edited: 1st June, 2015
Created: 1st June, 2015
April showers bring Mayflowers.
Not really anymore.
California drought.
look close. its all nudged circles.
10260
Published: 10th May, 2015
Last edited: 3rd May, 2015
Created: 22nd April, 2015
This started as an army font that I sort of decided to scale down and curve a little bit.
150756
Published: 2nd April, 2015
Last edited: 2nd April, 2015
Created: 31st March, 2015
A cool new alien font with slightly different upper/lowercase letters and numerals. Also includes most punctuation marks.
1643314
Published: 19th February, 2015
Last edited: 10th April, 2020
Created: 9th February, 2015
Clone of even more curves.
Thanks to j4s13 and opipik for starting these curve examples. I thought they were really helpful and I've gathered some of my own to add into the mix.
These are approximations of circular shapes in larger grid spaces. None of these would be possible without using the 2x2 filter. The nudge tool has also opened up the possibilities for mixed curved shapes.
Starting from A, the sizes go from 1 grid block up to larger ones. I've also added some incremental circles like 4.5 and 6.5 grid space. Most of these aren't perfect circles, but they're somewhat more accurate than going the faux bezier route. Feel free to improve upon the forms or create the larger sizes that haven't been displayed.
02.24.15 Added 2.5 and 3.5 sized circles
09.28.15 Added 10 variant, 12, 14 sizes
09.30.15 Added 11 sizeThis is a clone of even more curves
30400
Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 27th October, 2014
Created: 24th October, 2014
The theme I chose was 'Decorative'. It's my first font that I have created using Fontstruct and is based around an iron fence that I came across that was very art deco. I initially used a lot of circles, and then found the font wasn't legible when constructed like this. As a result I used minimal circles of the same thickness to the rectangles for the basic structure. I left spaces when joining them which I thick modernises the font as well as the varied height of the crossbars. Which was determined but the width of certain shapes. I used the typeface Arial as my basic foundation for this font as it is simple and for starting off on fontstruct, recreating Arial is comfortably achievable using the shapes provided.
150350
Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 30th October, 2014
Created: 24th October, 2014
Following the theme 'Decorative', I explored the aesthetics of 1970's wallpaper. This lead to finding lots of primary and secondary sources, which I narrowed down to two patterns. I noticed a mixture of curvilinear and geometric patterns. At this point, I realised that 'Decorative' does not necessarily mean curvy and swirly, so I decided to attempt geometic, but with a sort of curvilinear feel.
My main struggle was creating a design that wouldn't require too much pixelation. Creating swirls of a large size just wasn’t achievable, without using a humongous grid to cancel out the pixelation. If I had known that Illustrator would display my font to the quality I was looking for, I would have used a slightly smaller grid so the inside pattern stood out more.
120980
Published: 19th October, 2014
Last edited: 19th October, 2014
Created: 19th October, 2014
A clean, simple font. Easy on the eyes, and a great font for dyslexics. Easy to read, easy to distinguish each symbol.
160314
Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 10th November, 2014
Created: 3rd October, 2014
This typeface was based on the theme 'Messy'. I tried out a few experiment through sketches and rendering, trying to get as messy as I can and also at the same time challenge myself in creating something messy. I looked up on the word messy for different sort of meanings to it, and I also rendered down all sorts of images to get the right font to the theme. I did mini cut outs, played around with colours, tried using all sorts of lines and rendering. I finally came up with a way to portray the theme, using ink/ paint. We always encounter smudges and splatters in our work and it becomes a big mess. I also found the inspirations through several artist, especially Paul Jackson Pollock who did abstract paint pouring.
30980
Published: 8th June, 2014
Last edited: 7th June, 2014
Created: 7th June, 2014
A font that alternates between squares and circles! Capital and lowercase letters are the same.
Characters That Type Different Things
Character It Types
& AND
^ Unfilled Heart
` Filled Heart
{ 6-Point Star
} 5-Point Star
~ 4-Point Star
140420
Published: 4th March, 2014
Last edited: 25th February, 2014
Created: 13th February, 2014
It is very boxy/ bold typeface with dots to bring out the letters itself. Giving it a gamy feel to it.
40981
Published: 7th December, 2013
Last edited: 7th December, 2013
Created: 7th December, 2013
My 3rd attempt at making a font. I think it came out pretty well.