Favorite FontStructions from jimhv (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“SDSU Collegiate *FS” by SymbioticDesign

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:14:57 +0000

This font is Copyright 2014 to 2019 Doug Peters
( https://www.Doug-Peters.com/ or https://Dougs.Work/ ) and released as freeware under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. You are entitled to use this font however you want, but please credit me for my original work somewhere (website, blog or social media, preferably with a link back to one of my sites). Credit attribution IS greatly appreciated.

This is based on the SDSU (South Dakota State University) logo.

Categories: Famous, Logo Inspired, Collegiate & Sports (Jersey Lettering)
Type: Slab Serif
Weight: Heavy (Near Black),
Web font: Yes, sure.
Commercial use: Any use, yes, please credit me somewhere? Thanks!
Derivatives: OK (please use a different reserved font name).
Redistribution: Encouraged

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“AT Fasten Your Seatbelts” by kassymkulov

Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:16:57 +0000

Just an experiment, always wanted to make a diagonally cut stencil similar to Traffic by Tom Hultgren.

“Hand XL Smooth” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:28:17 +0000

Clone of Hand XL. This is so minidonut can see how far I am with smoothing out his font. Only missing k, o, p, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, [,], Eth, Thorn, ß, ð, thorn, Capital Esszet, €

“Boot Liquor” by fugitiveglue

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:52:37 +0000

I spent the week watching 60's movie title sequences… something must have rubbed off. Thanks to Soma FM for the name.

“zamantha eYe/FS” by elmoyenique

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:43:40 +0000

“Phunni?” by kassymkulov

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:42:22 +0000

“db Soda” by beate

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:36:04 +0000

dekorative, sansserif, db, dots

“Felix” by LexKominek

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:24:54 +0000

An Art-Deco-inspired fontstruction I created in April. Not sure why I never published it, but here it is! EDIT: Three seconds after hitting "Save Changes" I thought of the perfect name for this one. I've updated the name. There's also an alternate 'a' and 'g' available in the IPA area.

“fs Pythagoras” by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ)

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:22:04 +0000

My second entry in the fs Cognate series. Stay tuned: more characters to come...

“Bloccus” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:00:52 +0000

A serif font with sharp edges, suggesting it might be cut in stone; hence the name Bloccus. What do you think of the asymmetric c? And what do you think of the 'feet' on v and w? --- On a completely different note, I'm going to Japan for a fortnight on monday, so I'll upload a couple of fonts now, and read the comments when I get back.

“Fort Dodge” by imp336

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:33:26 +0000

“Ohm Run Slab” by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ)

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:18:09 +0000

Here, the innovative approach I took to stroke contrast in iSlab takes a radical leap forward. The result: a technical, friendly, modern slab serif design demonstrating further potential of the stackable composite function.

Please enjoy a private clone to see how I dealt with contrast, curves, bracketing, variable letter width and the difficult-to-achieve emboldening of the capitals’ vertical strokes within a minimal fontstruct matrix (and If you like what you see, please download for personal usage and vote kindly! :)

Intaglio’s amazing recent work makes similar strides (see the excellent rounds, for example), offering a solution before me to several of these long-standing impasses of the medium.

More characters to come... :)

“Quanted” by Kummaeno

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:55:43 +0000

A "deconstructed" exercise. I got the idea when I fontstructed in a grid that turned out to be a bit narrow. I could only place two of three horizontal lines where I wanted them, so I decided to see what happened if I simply skipped the third. The result turned out to be quite legible even though many glyphs had gaps where the important baseline should be. I especially liked the lower case letters. The concept is presumably not unique though...

“fs Stencil 2.0” by thalamic

Mon, 31 May 2010 20:02:39 +0000

Another stencil font...with obvious influences from Glaser Stencil (because I love it so!). But to be fair, Glaser Stencil was not referenced even once in the making of this fontstruction.

Allow me to wax technical about FontStruct 2.0 for a bit. A lot of my fontstructions have been even thickness all around. However, the evenness have been approximated thus far—not so anymore. First there were the 45° bricks; then came the 26.57°/63.43° bricks. With the 2.0 Make Composite feature, 14.04°/75.96° angles became possible. These two additional angles provide a finer tune of thickness of stems. The preview does not do justice to the font, but I tested the thicknesses of stems in Illustrator—horizontals/verticals/diagonals. Each stem now is as close in thickness to other as possible. This really is an even stroke font[struction]. Other 2.0 features are also used (but may not be obvious at a glance). See that 'o'? That's just one quarter curve created and then rotated three additional times. Very handy. The horizontal and vertical flips were used extensively throughout the creation process. Quarter-ing of angled bricks became necessary when it became evident that the only even thickness of a stroke is possible at x.5 thickness when combined with a curve. This meant that each vertical/horizontal stem is 5.5 bricks thick, which in turn made it necessary to use angled bricks at a quarter scale, which, of course, was made possible with the Make Composite feature. The only place I couldn't get the brick I wanted was in 4 (zoom in to see the slight misshape). It was a joy to work on this fontstruction to get what I really wanted almost every time. Great update, Rob. Cheers!

As long as I am on the soap box: What's up with diaeresis? I understand the reason for their existence, but are they the best possible way to handle various additional sounds? Also, are they even necessary? For example, café in French means a particular thing. But does cafe (without the e with the grave on it) mean something else? If not, wouldn't the French automatically know how to properly pronounce café (with or without acute on the e) the correct way whichever 'e' is used? It helps in the pronunciation for the uninitiated but are languages really designed for the novice? There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but they cover the gamut of up to 44 different sounds (according to some). Improbable as it may seem, it does not stop people to choose the correct pronunciation of letters. Hop has one sound for the 'o' and adding an 'e' at the end does not add the 'e' sound at the end of 'hop' but changes the sound of the middle 'o'. Convention. Sure. What I am trying to get at is that written script functions much better with distinct shapes without the flow-interrupting addition of the diaeresis. So unless there are two words spelled the same with the only difference being the kind of diacritic on the letters, the diacritic are redundant, no? If there is a real need for certain letter+diacritic combo, wouldn't a new shape be better? There are no shortage of additional shapes in the scripts of other languages. Can't do without an 'é'? Replace it with, say, 'ө' from the Greek script...or whatever. It bears repetition: What's up with diaeresis?

“Altitudinus” by geneus1

Wed, 12 May 2010 21:39:46 +0000

A quick test of the new fractional composites. And to see if there are any abnormalities that come up.

“Seriface 2.0” by geneus1

Tue, 11 May 2010 22:21:51 +0000

Clone of Seriface. The original Seriface was attempted without the additional angles provided by the new FS2.0 features. It was awful. The size was increased and faux-bezier curves were maximized via the combination of 1:2 filtration and composite bricks. Now its beautifully awful. WIP. Uppercase only.

“Renovare S1” by geneus1

Thu, 06 May 2010 13:28:48 +0000

Renovare. from the Latin word meaning "to renew" or "to restore." Representing FontStruct's renewal with its new feature upgrades. This serif font was created solely for the purpose of exercising the new brick stacking and composite brick building features. WIP. Just letterforms for now. Looks simple, but internally gets complex with a quickness.

“Remolino Stencil” by Frodo7

Sat, 01 May 2010 02:25:18 +0000

Yesterday afternoon I was sipping Coke on a sunny terrace and thinking about life, and the universe, when an idea came out of the blue about a new stencil font. The idea was so simple, I almost felt ashamed not having it much earlier. Back home I started to work on it, and created the first set of letters. It's a work in progress, fraught with imperfections, including the usual spacing-kerning problems. Remolino is a Spanish word for vortex.

“Overfeed” by chr.s

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:49:26 +0000

My first Stencil font.

“Boikot Stencil” by Frodo7

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:53:04 +0000

This is and experimental work to create a strong stencil face with a distinct character. It is a work in progress. Some glyphs may change. If you know prior art(s) very similar to this, please let me know.