1271420039
Published: 3rd October, 2009
Last edited: 3rd October, 2009
Created: 25th January, 2009
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.This is a clone
187485
Published: 20th September, 2009
Last edited: 28th December, 2012
Created: 5th September, 2009
This came out of my first attempt at using filters ... set to 1:2
31911923
Published: 7th September, 2009
Last edited: 4th November, 2009
Created: 4th September, 2009
This is the bigger brother of Eärendil. Same concept with small modifications here and there. Medieval numbers.
71954171177
Published: 1st September, 2009
Last edited: 9th September, 2009
Created: 13th July, 2009
Hunstrüct is my first attempt at designing a contemporary blackletter typeface within Fontstruct. The typeface draws inspiration from the long tradition of German Fraktur styled blackletters. The name Hunstrück is taken from a mountain range in Germany called the Hunsrück. Primarily I was aiming to build a face that would work well as a display type for gig posters and larger headlines but as I reworked the typeface I tried to strike a balance between text and display.
Big thanks goes to djnippa for his hard work in spacing this font properly.
224767
Published: 31st August, 2009
Last edited: 31st August, 2009
Created: 23rd April, 2009
Italic but without the slant.This is a clone of Friendly serif
3522337191
Published: 15th August, 2009
Last edited: 12th April, 2012
Created: 3rd August, 2009
ASL is not a written language, but this font should, hopefully, assist anyone wishing to learn ASL.
The following is a quote from Wikipedia:
"American Sign Language (or ASL, Ameslan) is the dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the
English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico. Although the United Kingdom and the United States share English as a
spoken and written language, British Sign Language (BSL) is quite different from ASL, and the two sign languages are not mutually
intelligible
ASL is often written with English words in all capital letters, which is known as glossing. This is, however, a method used simply to teach
the structure of the language. ASL is a visual language, not a written language. There is no one-to-one correspondence between words in
ASL and English, and much of the inflectional modulation of ASL signs is lost.
There are two true writing systems in use for ASL: a phonemic Stokoe notation, which has a separate symbol or diacritic mark for every
phonemic hand shape, motion, and position (though it leaves something to be desired in the representation of facial expression), and a more
popular iconic system called SignWriting, which represents each sign with a rather abstract illustration of its salient features. SignWriting is
commonly used for student newsletters and similar purposes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
2811005
Published: 2nd August, 2009
Last edited: 2nd August, 2009
Created: 2nd August, 2009
An improved version of the originalThis is a clone of Gothicky Grey
64208914
Published: 28th July, 2009
Last edited: 18th February, 2015
Created: 17th July, 2009
The last and most difficult of the sharp serif experiments. Created on an 8 wide by 5 high base grid space. Unconventionally fontstructed while adhering to the impositions of the law of the brick. What do I mean? Just try recreating the letter A. It shouldn't be possible, so I did it anyway.
47410613
Published: 23rd July, 2009
Last edited: 15th August, 2014
Created: 21st July, 2009
Effleurage brick massage. Sharp and curvy 6x10 grid space experiment. Weird spacing due to double size filtering in conjunction with half bricks makes this mostly unusable. But that's why there's alternate spaced letters instead of numbers...for now. The spacing is compensated to look better in actual use than on the preview. Minimal space tweaking was done on the sample, but wherever the spacing was really off (which was pretty much everywhere), the alternate space character was used.
Alt spacing characters:
a = 1
s = 2
x = 3
z = 4
Z = 5
S = 6
e = 7
o = 8
t = \
g = ^
s = |
Ligatures:
fi = @
ff = _
fl = #
ffl = /This is a clone
239174337
Published: 22nd July, 2009
Last edited: 23rd July, 2009
Created: 25th June, 2009
This is a Sessions flavored remix of Saberrider's wonderful Poff font.This is a clone of poff
144126725
Published: 22nd July, 2009
Last edited: 13th July, 2009
Created: 11th July, 2009
This is a clone/remix of Micromoog. This font should ONLY be used to set the titles for a bad Michael Bay movie where the plot features an alien breed of energy drink swillin' robots that fight against extreme sport celebrities in an attempt to rid the earth of BMX bikes, skateboards, all neon colors & fun.
Lowercase carries a full set of X-TREME alternates. This is a clone of Micromoog
3421224
Published: 21st July, 2009
Last edited: 20th July, 2009
Created: 27th October, 2008
Karuso. As in Robinson Caruso. Because it should be shipwrecked on a deserted island. That's where I planned to leave it in private (and you're probably thinking that's where I should have left it). Check the creation date - it's been stranded for a while.
This is the first in a set of text face experiments, and it reveals the beginnings of an evolution of high contrast fontstructing over a minimized grid space. Not all glyphs are how I wanted them to be. Some may be hideous. The spacing is terrible. But as a fontstruction, this one really got me to push the bricks to develop some resemblance of a Times Romanesque sharp serif typeface. Many, many tricks had to come in to play to make this happen at its current state. Overlapping bricks, brick stacking, overlapping brick stacking. It's all in there. I learned a lot from this insane attempt just from the lowercase letter forms alone. I mean, just look at that g! Try it at your own risk. 6x8 grid space, Double XY.
But don't worry, this is as bad as it gets. It does get better from here, but only a little bit, so don't get your hopes up. Stay tuned.This is a clone
370710526
Published: 14th July, 2009
Last edited: 16th October, 2009
Created: 12th July, 2009
"Kunchey" is the term used in north India to refer to both a game played with marbles, and the marbles themselves.
1411622738
Published: 1st July, 2009
Last edited: 11th December, 2009
Created: 4th June, 2009
A mono-height, 60s inspired font.
I'm not 100% sure about some of the uppercase characters - mostly the later ones... so all comments are gratefully recieved.
Oh, and more latin characters are on the way...
11896522
Published: 24th June, 2009
Last edited: 29th June, 2009
Created: 23rd June, 2009
Experimenting with reverse glyph building (knockouts) to create a modular monoline font with more fluid, rounded shapes.
A work in progress. I would appreciate any and all feedback, suggestions, etc.This is a clone
316377658
Published: 21st June, 2009
Last edited: 20th December, 2009
Created: 29th January, 2009
Just like in "Underwörld" i tried to create something between the old styles and modern fontdesign.
work in progress
13345884233
Published: 4th June, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2018
Created: 1st October, 2008
This took me many, many hours of trying, learning, erasing and restarting. Especially the design of the caps was hard; sooo many possibilities! However, i'm proud to present you my first real blackletter font :) I would like to add some more glyphs to the "more latin" set, but the size seems to be close to the download limit. It's downloadable yet, but i had to erase some glyphs...
ps:
there's an alternate "a" on "@",
and some decorative stuff on "#" and "*".
cheers
120114225
Published: 30th May, 2009
Last edited: 30th June, 2009
Created: 27th May, 2009
A tribute to Josef Albers: inadvertently inspired by saberrider and afrojet.
This font totally happened by accident. Recently, saberrider created steep, which uses a 2.0 x 1.11 filter setting to smoothly blend the quarter-circle bricks into the triangles. After saberrider created his experimental variable scale fontstruction, it lead me to revisit an abandoned work I did from last year that was done in a similar scale. After getting over the initial disgust of looking at the dismal failure, I started tweaking. Then I decided to tweak the letters instead. It became apparent that I could create a stencil type font that also looked like Josef Alber's font. Coincidentally, Saberrider also has a variation with fontstract,
and of course, that Stewf guy has his own family of Leaflets. ;-) Afrojet's sessions came into play in creating some of the letter forms, especially the numerals. The final filter setting became 1.638 x 1.08, which created a nice fusion of the curved and triangular bricks, but was also naturally inclined to necessitate the vertical divide on each glyph. The rest flowed rather easily from there. Here's to more happy accidents. =)
The sample is also a tribute to Alber's color theory, showing the names in identical colors, which, when juxtaposed over contrasting colors tricks the eye into thinking the bottom name is darker than the top.
The following Josef Albers quote can relate to all things creative, like fontstructing, not just color:
"It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories.
As we begin principally with the material, color itself, and its action and interaction as registered in our minds, we practice first and mainly a study of ourselves.
Thus, we replace looking backward by looking first at ourselves and our surroundings, and replace retrospection with introspection."
- Josef Albers
This is a clone
7612567187
Published: 25th May, 2009
Last edited: 24th August, 2012
Created: 23rd May, 2009
I filled it, kix. :) ----- It appears as a clone because that's where it started but every character is built from scratch. kix' brilliant original is an understatement of perfection, using the least amount of bricks for such a grand effect. However, it left not much space inside for any kind of meaningful rendering. Had to quadruple each glyph in order to get enough brick space inside to get some effect going. In the process I came to appreciate the true brilliance of the design and the awesomeness of certain characters. G, for instance. I have scaled everything up, but have not taken any liberties with the shapes—they are true to the original. If a certain glyph is off, it is due to my ineffective eye and not borne out of a desire to change the original. (Point it out, and I'll correct it). Hope you like it. ----- I live in the third-world; it is summer (well, it is here). Consequently, unannounced power outages 2, 5, 8 times a day are standard operating procedure. While/when we have power, my ISP may not. Consequently, unannounced internet outages 3, 4, 7 times a day are standard operating procedure. Out of 24 hours, I get 3, 4 hours of internet access on a good day. Everything everywhere is UPS'd up the wazoo. Still, UPSes need power to recharge. I never know when the computer might shut down or lose the internet connection. Consequently, I have become a master S-pusher. Sorry for the server load, admins. :-)This is a clone
2101446
Published: 20th May, 2009
Last edited: 23rd June, 2009
Created: 18th May, 2009
Like 'Simple Fraktur' but with bigger decorative capitals in a black square frame. working on the diacritics.This is a clone of Simple Fraktur
6061448
Published: 15th May, 2009
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 15th May, 2009
I put this one together very quickly. Diacritics and punctuation are coming soon.