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Mossarabe

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by diogog


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Estudo de "gotica" + "uncial" a simular influência Árabe. Matriz média de 6x6 blocos nas minusculas. Tem acentuação portuguesa. Study of "Black letter" + "uncial" with some Arab flavour. Matrix 6x6 pixel (average in lowercase) with Portuguese accent.
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89 characters, 14 downloads
Created:
Sun, 16th December, 12:47 PM 2012
Last Edit:
Mon, 14th January, 2:15 PM 2013
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http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/750886
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Discussion

diogog
diogog Mon, 14th January, 5:50 PM

Frodo7
Frodo7 Tue, 15th January, 12:39 AM

Blackletter? Vaguely. Uncial? Hardly. Arabic flavour: not a trace of it. It is an interesting experiment, nevertheless. Some letters need further polishing.

winty5
winty5 Tue, 15th January, 12:42 AM

I love this! It's just amazing! 10/10

Umbreon126
Umbreon126 Tue, 15th January, 2:35 AM

Like Frodo7 said, not exactly along the style of what you mentioned; but it looks great as a display font for something dark ;)

meek
meek Tue, 15th January, 8:12 AM

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

architaraz
architaraz Tue, 15th January, 9:22 AM

Superb fontstruct entry, with very stylish, unique taste.

diogog
diogog Tue, 15th January, 10:51 AM

Hi all
Thanks for all comments. This is my first try here on using the Fontsctruct "blocs". As I described, is a study of somehow "old style" letters - "Mossarabe" (Moçárabe - Mozarab in English). In Portugal and Spain were the Iberic Christian who lived under Arab Islamic rule and adopted elements of Arabic language and culture in the 11th century. This study is just for fun, and in fact it seems somehow "arrogant" to compare it to "black letter" or whatever... the chalenge was tho reinvente the complex geometry with so few blocs. Carpe Diem, have fun :)

cablecomputer
cablecomputer Tue, 15th January, 10:52 AM

Wow, cool experiments you had!

laynecom
laynecom Tue, 15th January, 11:02 AM

I like the way how at first sight it looks all over the place but then its ornaments and the letter forms seem so consistent.

This is a very original typeface.

diogog
diogog Tue, 15th January, 11:15 AM

A flavour of the inspiration in a Iberic document.

A flavour of the inspiration in a Iberic document.
p2pnut
p2pnut Tue, 15th January, 12:05 PM

An interesting and very decorative first font. 10/10

sarreyn
sarreyn Fri, 18th January, 12:10 AM

This is simply fantastic.

gotik
gotik Mon, 21st January, 12:56 PM

Great, just what I was looking for. Thks!