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SMEERKAAS - Decorative, squarish geometric and rounded Art Nouveau display type
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Modern typeface design influenced by Art Nouveau typography.
At its core it is a plain geometric style, and the real breakaway towards a more decorative 'Art Nouveau' inspired style starts with the elongated letterforms and their irregular descending elements. These give it a slight more interesting and dynamic flow that somewhat resembles a calligraphic or handmade look. Some of the descending elements in the uppercase string slightly differ in length and are more decorative, mimicking a dripping-like effect.
Unlike with a more traditional Art Nouveau lettering, the geometric backbone of this design keeps it quite futuristic looking, and actually provides a nice transitional blend of styles.
It works well at pretty much any point size, even at the very smallest, but keep in mind that the font wasn’t meant for large body style text, and is best used in short decorative setting.
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Cap height: 12 units
Body height: 17 units
Point size (Em): 18 units
― I will add extra glyph alternatives in a later update (posted: 09-14-'22)
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The name “SMEERKAAS” is dutch for “cheese spread”and it likely needs some further explanation on why this particularly odd name was chosen.
During the eighties we had this idiotic tv commercial that was aired on dutch
television for a cheese spread brand called “Goudkuipje”.
The plot for this commercial was a castle siege during medieval times, and it revolved around the phrase;
― "Ze smelten de kazen!" which translates to; ― "They melt the cheeses!"
The plot further enfolds into the defending part that had run out of hot tar to pour onto their enemies, alternatively they started melting cheese, so that they would be able to pour that down the castle's wall.
To better understand the link between my font and the tv-commercial you should watch the short commercial clip first.
Video Linkhere - youtube.com
But in a nutshell, the name was sort of choosen as a meme to suit the font's dripping-effect decorative theme.
I hope you like it so far...
Cheers
This is a cloneTHEME: PROTECT
A display font inspired by one of the UK's first and most influential free-party sound systems- Spiral Tribe. They helped create a culture of freedom and expression through art and music which was heavily (and still continues to be) suppressed by the Police. They used tribal patterns frequently in their artwork, which is the reasoning behind the spiral shapes within the letters.
The weights are varied throughout the letters to make it more playful and psycholdelic, as the rave culture is against agression and force used frequently against them by the police. New age travellers embrace harmony- which is why the letters are sized so that they work together in words to create a wider pattern.
Weaving Score is a decorative font for musical notation. You can make ornamental musical scores with this font. The correspondence of notation and keys are shown below. You can download the HD image from this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j85c5253qh644or/AADN8-pft-lH2IF3GYiYEduga?dl=0
Charted from historic cross stitch book Maison Sajou Miniature Album no. 4. The samplers generally don't include I or W so I created the I from the base vertical element and the W from two Vs. The pattern was found on http://patternmakercharts.blogspot.com/2009/08/sajou-n-4.html
Charted from historic French cross stitch book Maison Sajou Miniature Album no. 4. The samplers generally don't include I or W so I created the I from the centre of the T and the W from two Vs. The pattern was found on http://patternmakercharts.blogspot.com/2009/08/sajou-n-4.html
Charted from historic French cross stitch book Maison Sajou Miniature Album no. 6. The M, N, X and Z have been modified from the original and the W added. The pattern was found at http://patternmakercharts.blogspot.com/2009/12/sajou-no-6.html
White Fontset that is seen in an isometric view with the 3D projections (shadows) shown in black
An alternative colour font could be generated for this.
Disclaimer: Any similarities between letter forms or style with any other font published here before are merely a coincidence and not plagiarised.
Open to Comments and Suggestions
Enjoy!
If it's not been touched for months, then it's finished? Well, even if it's unfinished, it can be public too.
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Fun inspiration. I might add some alternates if I feel the need;) but as it has taken me this long to add occasional glyphs adapted from my own unpublished collection I suggest you sit back and find your own muse to invade your mind, encouraging you to add more glyphs and share with us your own versions of this style, based on your own unpublished and experimental fonts.