FontStruct | FontStruction Feed: Floor Plan

Comment from intaglio

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hey F.K. this is terrriffic!I love the ratios -- weight of the dots and lines, proportions, everything about it is topnotch. And apart from that a brill idea.

Comment from kix

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

superdupergreat. honestly wonderful

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

great idea, spectacular execution, amazing details... chapeau! this actually reminds me of an idea i was doing sketches on some time ago: i wanted to do a set of punch-out sheets (is that the word?) with which you can build every letter in 3d. i abandoned it because i thought all the thin and dotted lines were impossible to make on fontstruct. obviously they aren't... i'm afraid i'll have to dig out those sketches and start working on it again. you probably just chained me to my computer for another 20 hours in the middle of summer, funk_king... ;)

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

voilà: first letter of my floor plan inspired punch out set is complete! i'm afraid it's gonna be more than 20 hours though...

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “floor plan” is now a Top Pick.

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Great idea & great execution.

Comment from djnippa

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Very creative, and usable.

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

thanks tag. kix, shasta, and gus. appreciate the feedback and encouragement :) @shasta - cool idea. press-outs, punch-outs, push-outs, cut-outs - all are just about the same except cut-outs requrie cutting tool vs the others are preforated. how do i know you ask? i collect the stuff - they really don't make 'em like they used to. most of my collection is vintage books of old school disney and hanna-barbera characters, some classic tv shows, and uh, a few paper dolls :) i like your sample - very unique and interesting idea. yes, longer than 20 hrs, but you won't be out in the hot heat :)

Comment from jmarquez

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

:o Amazing!

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@ f.k.: great, looks like i've run into the expert for that kind of stuff... :) anyway, current extrapolations reduced the expected time horizon for fontstruction this thing, due to a lot of repetitive elements. i made it till "H" within not much more than 1 hour... here's what i have so far. shame i have to compromise that much on the counters, but it's just impossible to fill all their sides. anyway, feel free to try if they work if you feel like it... it's probably the most brain-stimulating fontstruction i've done so far, hehe. PS: please feel free to erase this post after you read it, funk_king... this discussion belongs to floor plan, and it's probably just my excitement about my new project and that you share the passion for punch-outs that lets me post this here. :) but it doesn't belong here.

Comment from geneus1

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@fk: Great idea and execution! @shasta: Ditto! Looking forward to the full version.

Comment from afrojet

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think I'd like to live in the 'Z' house. I wonder if I'd need to get a permit to put a deck on the back. What do the dotted vs. solid lines within the glyph represent? I take it the solid lines mean walls, but the dotted lines then?

Comment from shasta

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

room-separating curtains i guess? weird enough, from "I" on there are different weights of curtains too... pretty detailed plans. good architect. :)

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@jet - they represent alternate walls - say for an office floor plan, like a cubicle/temporary wall. these are the initial set, i think if/when i go back and add doors and windows, some will make more sense - floor plan-wise. i think initially i was striving for a balance between creating realistic plans and clearing rendering each glyph. i started out thinking of each glyph as a floor plan for a house. the initial concept didn't fit for all, so i thought they could be for any type of dwelling - house, apartment, commercial, industrial/warehouse, recreation, etc. i think some could probably be combined to create larger structures... wait a minute, these are just glyphs, sorry :)

Comment from afrojet

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@fk:you can totally combine the glyphs to make new structures. The word DOG would make for an interesting dwelling. I have a Dover book from the '80's called Bizarre and Ornamental Alphabets ($10 at Amazon). It features an entire architectural alphabet. You'd love it. Here's a sample.

Comment from thalamic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Being the aspiring architect that I was, and having spent countless hours drafting, I am so pleased to see this FontStruction. It brought back a lot of memories. Your sense of proportion and balance is very pleasing to the eye. And the shapes themselves are rather nice. Awesome work. Two suggestions: 1. Add doors and windows to every glyph for means of accessing the insides of the buildings of FontStructuria. 2. Provide additional glyphs in the shapes of landscape elements and furnishings that users could place as needed to liven-up the place.

Comment from funk_king

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@jet - cool book. looks like a great resource. don't know if i could do that sample in fs, but you never know :) i'll have to get one. thanks for the tip. @thal - yes, planning on adding door and window to uc. wasn't so sure about additional symbols - but i'll have to reconsider :)

Comment from oyrus

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Beautiful!

Comment from cayo

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

stuff like this is what makes me wonder why isn't this place called FUNtstruct... Anyway, this one caught my eye instantly. And comparing it to afrojet's sample, I come to realize that funk_king's font (or FUNt, hehe!) is more like japanese housing and the one portrayed in the book is a lot more like gothic churches. Really nice, FK!

Comment from p2pnut

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent - I guess a book written in this font would be 'multi-storied' :)

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “floor plan” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

Comment from Magic Sam

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Marvellous. This is a great concept.

Comment from gferreira_admin

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “floor plan” is now a current Featured FontStruction.