This began as a clone of the original djangogh, reinventing it as an ultra-bold, broad-nibbed gothic display sans. The Script comp provided me impetus to flesh it out further in the direction of an ultra-weight connected script face.

The connectors mimic the angle of inclination of the fat pen that scribes these glyphs, giving most of them a slight uptick. This consistent angle (and the high contrast) lands it in the same family of script as Shasta’s classic High Voltage, yet the two remain distinct. Djangogh Unpenned brings a sexy corpulence, curvaceousness paired with kinky inktraps set on an undulating baseline (and surely it is less electric than Shasta’s epic work).

Connection became a major theme upon which to reconsider all the characters. I fine tuned and revised the outer curves and placement of diagonals to ensure dynamic, smooth, and consistent linkages and some lovely auto-ligatures for certain letter pairings.

Please enjoy a private clone to crack open and appreciate my host of new solutions. :)

Mil gracias, compañeros! :)

@opipik: djangogh is shared, but I had mis-entered the hyperlink above. It’s fixed, now ~ thanks for noticing! :)

I love when a new approach I take to an old problem thrills and inspires you guys. The ability to communicate ideas without words (but with glyphs!), to transmit ideas within the constructions themselves – this is my greatest joy in fontstructing. I realize I want to speak less about, and to speak more with. To say it with the shapes. To create designs so simple yet layered, so recognizable – even obvious – yet also mind-bending and unknown. So that you can’t help but press the clone button. Not pictures worth thousands of words, but modular systems worthy of dozens of fonts.

My heartfelt gratitude for all your ability and efforts to hear my thoughts. Is it telepathy, then, or synesthesia? ;)