FontStruct | FontStruction Feed: Hunstruct

Comment from afrojet

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

Comment from igorrossi

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

So beautiful. You rock !

Comment from shasta

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

Well, what can you say... Excellence at first attempt! Awesome stuff as always from you. :) As for the kerning: definitely a font that could benefit from a letter-to-letter kerning function... Rumor has it this is on the roadmap for a future version of fontstruct.

Comment from cayo

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

Your stuff is always enlightening. I wish I had the same understanding of Blackletter styles to create something as good as this one, but I'm kind of "font blind" in that area. I'm a sans kind of guy :) I love how the 2 diagonals in the upper left of the a, o, q and 8 make a subtle curve. And I also dig how the circles around @ and copyright glyphs got solved. Simple yet very practical. 11/10

Comment from SquarePeg

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

10 points is not enough! Amazing work, afrojet!

Comment from Magic Sam

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

10/10.

Comment from djnippa

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

Truly brilliant 10/10. Cool Sample as always, you always impress. Have you sorted out the advanced spacing with it yet, as a few letters look a bit suspect.

Comment from Frodo7

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

An instant classic. 10/10

Comment from funk_king

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

marvelous medieval madness meshing mashing mixing making magnificent :)

Comment from funk_king

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

uh... magnificence :)

Comment from thalamic

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

I love the way how you've used the two angles to your advantage. Very pleasant result. The i j dots and the quotes are particularly well done.

Comment from afrojet

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

Thanks all for the encouragement. Everyone's recent work has been crushing so hard that I really wanted to step up my game. @cayo I have to admit that I was a bit "font blind" myself to the blackletter. Only when I studied the amazing work of other Fontstruct blackletter pioneers did my eyes begin to focus on the silhouette of the form. As is the case with many things, just diving in and getting my hands dirty with it proved to be entirely eye opening. Still learning, but perhaps now I'm only half blind. I encourage you to explore the style. You'll learn a ton. @djnippa Good sir, thrust upon this 'Struction your wisdom of advanced spacing. I've tried many things and now my quiver of ideas is depleted. Short of real kerning and spacing, I'm not sure where to push, pull, deflate, and heave. @funk_king My mind melts - magnificently malnourished - managing my majuscule malpractice. @thalamic I use all the angles to my advantage. Until they betray me. Then I kill 'em.

Comment from p2pnut

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

It's all been said, most elequently, above. All that is left for me is to give it well earned 10 and stand back in awe.

Comment from jmarquez

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

Remarkable! Great simple/clever solutions all around, wonderful work!

Comment from aphoria

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

Brilliant and beautiful. Great samples too!

Comment from djnippa

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

I've done a clone with all the spacing and kerning changes. Should I publish it so you can see? I've basically changed the spacing on every character, and you can adjust the letter spacing using the Advanced Spacing in Preview to what ever you desire. I settled for 2.5.

Comment from afrojet

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

@djnippa. Oh yes! Please publish and I'll make a clone to decipher your accomplishment. Then I'll apply to this font. Thank you so much for taking the time to add your skills to make this font better.

Comment from djnippa

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

I've published it.

Comment from sebastianberns

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

I love love love this font! Makes me think twice about publishing my own blackletter…

Comment from afrojet

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

My eternal thanks to djnippa for taking the time to improve the spacing and overall usability of this Fontstruction. Respekt.

Comment from afrojet

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

This is turning into a nice collaboration. Thanks to djnippa, I've updated B,E,F,P, Z and f. Original letters can still be found in the Extended set.

Comment from aphoria

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

Love the new ones...esp the E.

Comment from gferreira_admin

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

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

Comment from intaglio

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

God what a masterpiece. That s is a killer.

Comment from typerider

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

Silly I didn't see it before. Great one!

Comment from mguerrero

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

simply great!!

Comment from thedaft

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

Just great.

Comment from PhaistosDisk

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

Simply Incredible!

Comment from wolfkrim

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

Well done! Love the angled glyphs.

Comment from afrojet

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

A-Pho, FS Management Services Inc., Tag, T-Ride, Daft, P-Disk, Wolfmother - Thanks for the kind words. Appreciate it much.

Comment from Steve Cullen

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

Beautiful. I'm using it this month. If you want to see how it ends up, check http://www.behance.net/stevecullen/Frame around mid-November.

Comment from afrojet

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

Looking forward to seeing where you take it, Steve.

Comment from nialfo

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

great font!

Comment from hilaryjn

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

Lovely. Thank you.

Comment from afrojet

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

Slanted #10 - Heavy Metal. Lovers is out. Pick up your copy to see some great examples of modern blackletters. I'm pleased to have my FontStruction's HunStrüct and HunStrüct Tall featured in the 'Fontlabels, Fonts and Families' section. For my sample I chose to do a Heavy Metal valentine to some of the metal giants that have influenced me over the years. "In “Heavy Metal. Lovers.” we look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents the innovative work of Invisible Creature (Seattle), historic type-treasures from the archives of Linotype (Bad Homburg) and Klingspor Museum (Offenbach), the photo documentation “True Norwegian Black Metal” from Peter Beste (New York) etc. …" Photo lifted from slanted.de

Comment from meek

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

That rocks!

Comment from aphoria

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

Yeah, that's awesome afrojet. Congrats!

Comment from Frodo7

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

A recognition well deserved. Hunstruct is My Fave, a fascinating new face in the ever changing continuum of German blackletter tradition. Congratulations.

Comment from zen_killa

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

congrats that's really nice. The page looks really good !

Comment from afrojet

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

Thanks all. I'm pretty stoked. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

Comment from p2pnut

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

Nice one aj :) Even though we are creatures of the web, it's great to your own work in good old print.

Comment from jmarquez

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

Very Nice, Congrats! I see one of my favorite Modern Blackletters, Kaas by Hugo D'Alte! Needless to say yours is just as good!

Comment from djnippa

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

Excellent stuff, some truly brilliant fonts, and you're smack bang in the middle of it all. Well Done.

Comment from thalamic

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

That is so cool. Totally well deserved, of course. :-)

Comment from Em42

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

Great achievement: it is always exciting to see a grown-up fontstructrion to fly away from its nest!

Comment from funk_king

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

congratulations on a major achievement. your work looks great in print. very natural, like it belongs there. and it does.

Comment from shericanzon1

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

Super classic font!You rock !

Comment from lovemachine

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

awesome!

Comment from crispycraker

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

Beautiful(: just beautiful(: