Favorite FontStructions from johndilworth (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“fs I Square” by minimum

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:08:15 +0000

Well, there was this way to go.

“labyrinth#02” by steric

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:58:35 +0000

“Hasta Siempre” by Frodo7

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:21:13 +0000

This is my attempt to create a robust, almost military grade slab serif stencil. The whole project was largely inspired by the music clip bearing the same title by Nathalie Cardone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqYHeX0i0NU&feature=related). It is a work in progress, glyphs may change in the final version.

“Remolino Stencil” by Frodo7

Sat, 01 May 2010 02:25:18 +0000

Yesterday afternoon I was sipping Coke on a sunny terrace and thinking about life, and the universe, when an idea came out of the blue about a new stencil font. The idea was so simple, I almost felt ashamed not having it much earlier. Back home I started to work on it, and created the first set of letters. It's a work in progress, fraught with imperfections, including the usual spacing-kerning problems. Remolino is a Spanish word for vortex.

“RM Romantic Carved shadow FS1” by p2pnut

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:47:56 +0000

As complete as it is likely to get. Apologies to non-English language users, but adding diacritics would be too big a task (involving between 50 - 150 brick stacks per glyph). If anyone wants a specific diacritic, for a particular use, contact me and I will try to add it.

“High” by diogorapazote

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:09:12 +0000

Hello

“Redonda” by jmarquez

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:54:30 +0000

“Corregidora Dominguez” by rivaszarate

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:38:17 +0000

“Sans Serious I” by afrojet

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:21:30 +0000

The ‘Sans Serious’ Series is a group of tribute typefaces meant to honor Dutch designer and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer.

Along with Wim Crouwel and Josef Albers, Jurrian Schrofer (1926 - 1990) was among the Bauhaus pioneers of grid-based modular typography and design.

Schrofer's work experimented with type, light, and color and focused on mathematical shapes and pattern.

From the book ‘Dutch Type’ by Jan Middendorp:

“Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily called Sans serious - but this was never his goal. ‘Is it necessary’, he wrote, ‘to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes’ Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms ‘made to measure’ as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, ‘Les textes sociologiques’ from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids.”

“In his booklet ‘Letters op maat’ (‘Type made to measure’, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven.”

Read more from ‘Dutch Type’.

Image from Letters op matt.

More images of Jurriaan Schrofer's work on Flickr:

Schrofer in Total Design book.

Cover for European Journal of Social Psycology

Museumjournaal, design Jurriaan Schrofer

Die Internationale Avant-Garde

Jurriaan Schrofer - Fodor catalog

Note: for all fonts in the ‘Sans Serious’ Series, the alphabet is the same for upper and lowercase.

“Hooligan” by afrojet

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:32:26 +0000

Cleaning out the queue. I can't believe this one has been sitting in here for *gulp* eight months! I figure if I don't kick it out now, then it will sit here sequestered for another eight.

The title is inspired by my struggles to space this one properly.

A work in progress. Taking any and all feedback - especially for spacing.

Works best at specific sizes. Enjoy.

“Geostruct Grotesque Tall - sefsar.com” by Youssef Sarhan (Youssef)

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:29:05 +0000

My name is Geostruct Grotesque and I'm a typeface. I love grotesque and gothic type fonts, particularly with vertical exaggeration; so I set out with this in mind and here's the result. Love Trade Gothic & Univers Condensed. http://type60.com/2009/10/geostruct-grotesque-a-typeface/

“Bevel'sAdvocateMono” by fontcollector

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:20:26 +0000

This font's beveled angles create the illusion of shading and depth.

“Corrida Evolved” by jmarquez

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:38:18 +0000

Clone of Corrida. I had this hidden away in the attic, dusted it of a bit.

“Escheresk” by Tobias Sommer (shasta)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:07:25 +0000

I intended to make some sort of an M.C.Escher tribute here. I'm sorry this isn't very complete and far from being perfectly well done, but it somewhat started to make me feel dizzy...;) And even though I'm not very convinced by this, I don't think I'd come up with a way better execution soon.

I hope for Mr Escher that there are better tribute fonts for him out there! He'd definitely deserve it...

It was by the way funk_king's Impossible Alphabet that reminded me of this unfinished thing laying around in my messy unpublished fontstructions box, and made me take it out and finish it. (If you can call 42 characters "finished".)

Also check out Frodo7's Hommage à Escher, geneus1's IsoMatrix 3D, and funk_king's Soma for some other great Escher-esque fontcrafting!

“Styl=0” by jmarquez

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:39:53 +0000

A simple Dot's Font with geometric shapes. Alternates: • Ampersand "&" in the Tilde letter "~"; • Commercial At "@" in the grave accent "`".

“Agora” by Stelios Constantinides (sconstantinides)

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:20:55 +0000

Lowercase includes alternate capital C,J,L,O,Q

“Get To The Falcon!” by afrojet

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:07:18 +0000

Inspired by Em42's 'Dioptical' and various other Fontstructions carrier out by fellow Brothers of the Optical Cloth.

“NCD Grand Theft Autostruct” by djnippa

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:34:02 +0000

Based on the logo for the Playstation/Xbox computer game "Grand Theft Auto". I added a number of variations to make up the full set. I've also included a double sized number set for who really hate small numbers.

“SquareDotDot” by 3r1c

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:20:14 +0000

Hope you like it, and if you do comment, and if you dont also comment. Thanks

“Chesterfield King” by afrojet

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:22:19 +0000

The Chesterfield Royal Family was formed from my desire to add new weights to the original Chesterfield typeface. In the process of drawing these new weights, I began modifying some of the forms of the new glyphs away from the original Chesterfield glyphs in order to build a more flexible brick/grid structure for the development of various weights. The most noticeable difference between these three new faces and the original is the lowered x-height. That said, there are still some compromises between the different weights and because of that I've given them these royalty names instead of the normal practice of light, regular, and bold weight names. One of the biggest compromises occurs in the Prince weight, where I was unable to add the notch where bowls and shoulders meet stems (see King and Queen weights) without adding too much extra black weight to those parts of the glyph.

A work in progress for sure. Any help/thoughts/repulsions/bile appreciated.

See also: Chesterfield Queen and Chesterfield Prince