Simply awesome. I hope someday to see some stunning real-world applications made possible by this riddle of an elegant offering.

Too many beautiful glyphs to count. The U and the N and the R. The H and the X. The masterful compositions with just the right touch of brickstacking for certain layers (The Q, the G, the D, the B, the C, the K). A vs. V. L vs. J. M, W, and E! But especially the F. And, again, that magical Q!

I could go on, my friend, singing the praises of this masterpiece. The question becomes: How to properly display this as a featured download?

Amazing! I tried to make something like that, but failed. Actually, the solution was simply beatiful... or beautifully simple.

What especially blows my mind after taking a tour of the flikr gallery you put together: amongst all the similar constructions that inspired you, Brutal embodies the greatest legibility born of arguably the strictest ruleset. And with absolutely no dearth of playful style.

You say 'Brutal' is an experiment ... well, the experiment was a fantastic success.

As someone who was involved in screenprinting (way back in the 60s) I can really appreciate this design (and the others in your gallery) .... hmmmm, I can almost smell the tri-chromatic inks.

Words fail me.

A well coordinated mixed-case setting enables palette swapping for any of these layered glyphs, right?

I get your point (if one had to change, I would pick M). But I really dig the conceptual elegance of rotated and repeated forms. It’s the rhythm that helps showcase those showstoppers (Q, O, X, Z – yeah, and especially that F again). But is it punk or is it polka, music or muzak, acid jazz or bad acid? I know what my ears say, but yours must ultimately decide.

Actually, though, I have always been unreasonable fond of the pacman-style Art Deco M. In that case, mirrored chucky trapezoids might do the trick. This just brings up the idea of using the diacritics for alternates (Å+å = YAY!). But, then again, why bloat something already so willfully, brutally paired down to its most fundamental elements?

uuhnn blkrr flbpppft... (stupefaction)

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Brutal Exchange of a Smug for Some Faith” is now a Top Pick.

Holy crap. Now that’s totally awesome. Loving the new color schemes. Does this make me a polka man? ;)

Okay. I love the design. And that @font-face demo is incredible.

Great work afro...love the @font-face demo.

cool font bro...

It' a little hard to read but i can see how you made the letters. Pretty good!

I mean... It's so EASY to read, yet in the FontStruct preview it doesn't look like much.

Bravo on a brilliant font.

Completely un-readable.
You cant tell the difference between a Q and a O
and you cant tell the difference between an o and a G
It would be kind of nice if you could actually read it.
4/10

if the staff were going to pick a top pick, shouldn't they at least choose one thats LEGIBLE?

@frozen99
Read this part of description:
"'Brutal' is an experiment in creating a one brick fontstruction for multilayered screen printing".

And look at the example picture that's red and black.

It's only unreadable in the unlayered state.

@ frozen99 - i normally don't comment when ignorant statements are made. hopefully tomo's comment will provide you with the understanding to comprehend this font. btw afrojet is on the FS staff. although he didn't and doesn't self-pick his top picks. it would be to your advantage to expand your knowledge of Fontstruct and typography before you embarrass yourself again.

uhh... your welcome, lol.

@funk_king

It's not like i have that much understanding anyway. for one thing: i'm only 10 years old.

so, like, i dont know what a "one brick fontstruction for multilayered screen printing" is.

@funk_king
keep in mind that there aren't many ten-year-olds that can make a font with almost 200 characters. Heck, most of yours only have 20-50.

@funk_king
keep in mind that there aren't many ten-year-olds that can make a font with almost 200 characters. Heck, most of yours only have 20-50.

And i'm not criticizing him, just the fact that I cannot find any way of reading it in its normal state. like, you can't make a word document using this font.

how did my comment duplicate?
:/

oh, and i don't feel at all embarrased, funk king.

This font is not supposed to be read in a normal state. You must use 2 layers - one with lowercase letters and second with uppercase.
Remember to use 2 different colors and a right blend mode.

I will post a guide that shows how to use this font if you want.

amazing font. amazing font. simply stunning.

This font has broaden my horizon.

Beautiful font. Ingenious solution.
@Frozen99: Actually I think most of the alt characters (esp. More Latin & Latin A) are just base letters with diacritics. For a font to be good requires creativity and so an effort put into ~50 letters can be already splendid depending on the font. Quality over quantity, as they always say.

This is very very nice and very well done!

I hope you don't mind I stole your idea for one of my fonts, if so I'll take it down.

Honestly, this is UBER cool. But... im kinda a newbie... but couldent you change the spacing for the capitols so you could just do Aa and it would work? Sorry if that didnt make sense...
Actually I tested it, it did not seem to work... Oh well...

Tomo I'd like the guide please! :3