Vuvuzela

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OK. Here's "VUVUZELA" A typeface inspired by the continent of africa, but mainly by the WorldCup of soccer 2010 in South Africa! To catch on of the strongest associations for me relating to africa, i chose black and white stripes, maybe to remind of zebras or other animal patterns. But the effect also stands for the "swoosh" of a ball flyin by, for just the the "sporty" feel i wanted it to have. Enjoy it. There's an alternative "a" on "=" cheers kix

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67 characters, 83 downloads

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Mon, 7th June, 7:33 PM 2010

Last Edit:

Wed, 16th March, 10:37 PM 2011

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http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/335589

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Africa, African, South Africa, Afrika, Afro, Soccer, World Cup, Tribal, Spirit, Fussball, Vuvuzela, Wilderness, Wild, Animal, Stripe, Stripes, Zebra, Wildcat, Savanna, Desert, Curve, Raucous, Jungle, Stencil, Serif, Kix

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Display, Stencil

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kix Thu, 17th February, 2011

Tylo Thu, 17th February, 2011

NIIICE! How about some more characters like some spooky faces instead of the special punctuations … just an idea.
Awesome work! Really well done. Great style!

djnippa Fri, 18th February, 2011

Unique and usable. African and stencil. Excellent work.

xenophilius Fri, 18th February, 2011

The latest Kix masterpiece. Excellent work, kix! I don't know how you do this stuff!
184591734658/10 as usual.

xenophilius Fri, 18th February, 2011

Wow! I counted the height... it's 57 pixels high! (or something along those lines)
Yes, I cloned it. Don't ask how.

meek Fri, 18th February, 2011

@xenophilius. Cloned? That's a bug. I've disabled all cloning until that's fixed. I see you deleted the clone. Thanks!

elmoyenique Fri, 18th February, 2011

A superb, great font. Excellent job this one (which I'm jealous, of course). Congrats.

CMunk Fri, 18th February, 2011

Wauw! What a simple yet dramatic effect. 10/10 + fave.

aphoria Fri, 18th February, 2011

Very nice kix...cool sample too.

kix Sun, 20th February, 2011

Thanks everyone and hello.
Feels good to be back. I broke my arm, so i guess i have a little "extratime" now...
Of causeI'll spend some of it for working on this. And do some of those spooky masks, cause it's just a friggin good idea :)
thx tylo

thalamic Mon, 21st February, 2011

Brilliant in its simplicity, smoothness & appearance.

Sorry you broke your arm; hope you had fun doing it. :-)

kix Tue, 22nd February, 2011

Uppercase finished.

And no, it hurt :)

djnippa Tue, 22nd February, 2011

Brilliant. W, N & M are triumphs.
Do you think the thicker side of D & B should be switched, to be like the C,G,O,P,R etc ?

meek Wed, 23rd February, 2011

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

kix Wed, 23rd February, 2011

hey nippa!
-i knew, IF someone would ask that question, it would be you :)
Naturally, i already thought about it and it's a questioncoming up within almost EVERY fontstruction i've done:
How much strictness and repetition does a/my font need?
And on the other hand: How much can a glyph be unique, but still fit to the set?
The characters you mentioned are like they are, but on purpose, to "ease" the look a little bit.
thx meek

will.i.ૐ Wed, 2nd March, 2011

This one is so exquisitely beautiful. The propitious fusions of so many styles (light extended slab serif, as in American Typewriter~>super ellipsoid sans, like Apex New~>stencil & african!) is a total success. The superb and playful african effect is achieved totally through inventive serif surgery. So deftly controlled and cool! The “serif surgery” is itself a natural extension of the stencil look, which itself can be extrapolated from the opposition of serif and sans styles, leading right back to the serif surgery and completely the conceptual loop. An incredibly tight, deliberate, utterly unique yet seemingly inevitable result. Timeless/10!

Your previous work in mashing up contrasting styles has been taken to a new level.

Get well, soon, brother Kix!

Adien Gunarta Wed, 2nd March, 2011

what the meaning of vuvuzela?

xenophilius Tue, 8th March, 2011

@Adien: It was a really irritating instrument used during the World Cup. It's basically a very long horn that is multicolored and makes a lot of very obnoxious sound.

BanjoZebra Mon, 14th March, 2011

What grid size is this?

meek Mon, 14th March, 2011

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Vuvuzela” is now a current Featured FontStruction.

xenophilius Tue, 15th March, 2011

@BZ: Oh, something like A BILLION!

BTW, congrats on the FF

kix Wed, 16th March, 2011

Thank you all so much especially the FF :)
It's finally done. I cleaned out some fleas, optimised the letter space and... added NUMERALS!

@tylo:
Sorry, but i don't think there will be creepy masks, it just so big right now...

@banjozebra:
Gridsize is 78 x 72 :/

@xeno:
thanks for answering questions :)

@adien:
google rocks :)

BanjoZebra Thu, 17th March, 2011

I want to clone this baby.

BanjoZebra Thu, 17th March, 2011

The s, the M,, the g, and the 1 are the only characters that I don't love.

kix Thu, 17th March, 2011

er... you don't like "g"?
whew, thats hard. for me it's the most beautiful glyph i EVER did!!!

Frodo7 Fri, 18th March, 2011

Wonderful piece of art. Some letters (eg. a,b,c,d,g) look like hands or gloves. Great work. 10/10

xenophilius Fri, 18th March, 2011

@kix: Check that. SECOND most beautiful glyph you've ever done. Number one is the f.

BanjoZebra Sat, 19th March, 2011

I'll have to say the most beautiful glyph here is the 5.

Upixel Sat, 19th March, 2011

Superbe
Circles are soo mooth Bravo!

DragonQuester10 Tue, 22nd March, 2011

Kix... you have dunnit again... another masterpiece!

iFluffeh Sun, 27th March, 2011

How in the world....

FerreTrip Mon, 4th April, 2011

I'm with iFluffeh on this one--how the heck did you DO this? So smooth...

joyahills Mon, 11th July, 2011

It is pleasure a going through your post. I have bookmarked you to check out new stuff from your side.

sell house quickly

jhejka Mon, 15th August, 2011

This is absolutely beautiful. A well deserved FF. And I'm with Frodo: these aren't just letters, they're pieces of art.

Mario jr. Thu, 29th September, 2011

Amazing. 10/10

bubbly193 Tue, 19th June, 2012

minimum Fri, 17th August, 2012

I love the curves on the B.

stylendesign Tue, 19th March, 5:42 AM

must download

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