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Bezziaire

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by geneus1


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No reference used at all. This is me drawing Paul Renner's original Futura from memory, without intending to. Actually, I was going for something more Avante Garde. It all started with the O and developed from there. The hardest letter = S. It was a real pain in the S. It was interesting afterward to compare the letters to Futura after finishing the caps. Futura - It was like the Helvetica of 1928. Bezziaire is an early experimental simulation of Bezier curves with FS2.0. Zooming 30% and below renders best results. Horizontal optical compensation added for the circular glyphs, as well as baseline overshoots. 060510 Oh yeah, this also has preliminary involvement with shasta's circle competition, which is seriously humbled by his Circle Cult.
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76 characters, 53 downloads
Created:
Fri, 21st May, 9:42 AM 2010
Last Edit:
Sat, 5th June, 10:22 PM 2010
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http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/328502
Tags:
Bezier, Futura, Circle Competition
Categories:
Sans Serif
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Discussion

Abneurone Fluid Types
Abneurone Fluid Types Sun, 6th June, 2010

I went to Fontstruct to escape these kinds of fonts and now they have also invaded the last territory they hadn't. SNIFF !

Abneurone Fluid Types
Abneurone Fluid Types Sun, 6th June, 2010

Pleaassse Don't do Arial next, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase i'm on my knees !

p2pnut
p2pnut Sun, 6th June, 2010

Nice one Gene, nothing like a classic font to try out the new curvaciousness.

@ne: Be afraid ... be very afraid ... coming soon to this Cinema ... The Attack of the Classic Fonts

Goatmeal
Goatmeal Sun, 6th June, 2010

@geneus1 --

Sure, this one's nice and all, but until you can recreate Comic Sans MS here, you've still got a long, long way to go, my friend... ;^)

(Neurone Error's head probably just exploded at the thought of THAT particular typeface being FontStructed.)

thalamic
thalamic Sun, 6th June, 2010

Statistics tells us that the probability of nothing is zero. Therefore, I submit, it would be awesomer if we could uncreate Comic Sans. Phase-inverted Comic Sans canceling displays, for instance. ;-)

Upixel
Upixel Mon, 7th June, 2010

this font is also gifted of optical correction ...

FUTURA your subconscient is to strong.. hope you look to closer to work of Connare


@NE t'es vraiment drole NE ;) mais je partage très bien ton opinion.


nice work no matter what

geneus1
geneus1 Mon, 7th June, 2010

@neurone error: But I have over 50 versions of Arial that I've worked really hard at, with large colorful samples of each of the individual letters that I need to share.
;-)

@p2pnut: Its funny you mention cinema in conjunction with classic fonts. I sometimes watch classic movies in the same way, identifying what storytelling and cinematic techniques stand the test of time. Citizen Kane and Casablanca come to mind with foundational techniques. Classic fonts have a similar appeal. After researching it, I didn't even know Futura came out in 1928.

@goatmeal: I agree, 'Comic Sans - the boldest of them aaalllll!!'
But it does get me a bit closer to Papyrus!

@thalamic: I would very much like to see the existing forms of such technology.

@Upixel: Ah, Vincent.
Each one of my current releases exercises something specifically, whether it is unseen internally or outwardly aesthetic. The original O was a perfectly symmetrical circle, but then the stroke width artifacts that are talked about in this article really stood out while previewing it. After a lot of experimentation, the final rendition became the best visually balanced solution at the selected grid size. The points on the A, V, and W also overshoot to balance adjacent letter forms. The resultant font, whether it looks like Futura or not, remains for me the physical evidence of the visual experimentation that I've set out for myself to explore and discover. Qu'on aime ou qu'on déteste, le choix est vôtre.

meek
meek Mon, 7th June, 2010

That's a great link from typographica. I didn't see that one.

At small sizes and with optical kerning this one prints very impressively (at least on a desktop printer).

afrojet
afrojet Fri, 11th June, 2010

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

Upixel
Upixel Fri, 11th June, 2010

thk for the reference of Vincent I never heard himself talking about his CS. He more humble about his masterpiece then I thaw :)

with sharp point of course without overshoot AMVW will look too small

"On aime, On aime"

Sorry my vocabulary is not enough strong in english but, I love your A the stroke (not sure of this is the right word) is low just like an Art Deco font but the rest is terribly géométrique ;)

You have all my admiration, great achievement


ps: I'm just about to give you my personal adress so you'll be able to send me all those sample of colored Faux-Arial ;)



Colafroeschli
Colafroeschli Thu, 17th June, 2010

how do you make these curves by "D" or "C" and by the other letters? with witch brick can I do this?

3moDuDe
3moDuDe Tue, 24th August, 2010

wow. what is this magically sufficient x-height to render smooth curves?

Yautja
Yautja Tue, 11th October, 2011

Great font! Reminds me of Neutra.

anonymous
anonymous Tue, 22nd May, 2012

@neurone error: I had no idea you were such a WIMP!!!

demonics
demonics Tue, 22nd May, 2012

@neurone micgio means no harm.

jphturtle
jphturtle Thu, 11th October, 2012

Very, very nice, but needs numbers and a few more symbols.