afrojet: FontStructions

Whoopee

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Because you can never have enough ball terminals...

Prog

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Prog is a condensed, geometric, modular display typeface with a contemporary sci-fi aesthetic. The design draws from a multitude of influences. Specifically I was inspired by: mathematics, Japanese space-rock, the movie MOON (directed by David Bowie's kid), and the Funk King's wonderful molecular work here on FontStruct.

The principle building block for the design is an obtuse angle segment that's cloned, reflected, and rotated to create an entire letter. Mapping the technique to the whole typeface was a challenge and there are some compromises (see D and U). As is frequently the case with these strict modular exercises the T is the stand out ugly duckling.

Lovestruc

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An experimental face focusing on contrasting shapes and color.

Micromoog

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

A mash-up of sorts. Microgramma meets Dr. Robert Moog.

Pinpression

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I bought one of those 3D Pin Art things at a garage sale a couple weeks ago. Turns out making 3D impressions of "The Bird" doesn't hold the same cultural currency now as it did when I was in Junior High, so I decided to cash in another way and make some letters.

Jetstream

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Loosely based on several styles of letter and numeral forms observed on various aircrafts at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. The museum is home of Howard Hughes Flying Boat H-4 Hercules (aka, the Spruce Goose).

Jetstream is a clone of Perforate. Jetstream's x-height is higher. The uppercase horizontals are narrower. The lowercase 'a' was made two-story. Without the constraints of the perforations, I was able to better center the crossbar of lowercase 'e', 's' and 'x'. Some numerals have also been modified.

Brutal Exchange of a Smug for Some Faith

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

A play on brickstacking, 'Brutal' is an experiment in creating a one brick fontstruction for multilayered screen printing. To use this font, you simply need to layer the uppercase alphabet on top of (or underneath) the lowercase alphabet (see below for a sample).

Obviously, it doesn't look like much in the Fontstruct preview.

The inspiration for this typeface came about when I was putting together this Flickr gallery of modular multi-colored lettering.

The first 25 downloads are all mine. It was a hard one to test.

Sans Serious II

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

Sans Serious V

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

Hooligan

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Cleaning out the queue. I can't believe this one has been sitting in here for *gulp* eight months! I figure if I don't kick it out now, then it will sit here sequestered for another eight.

The title is inspired by my struggles to space this one properly.

A work in progress. Taking any and all feedback - especially for spacing.

Works best at specific sizes. Enjoy.

Chesterfield Prince

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The Chesterfield Royal Family was formed from my desire to add new weights to the original Chesterfield typeface. In the process of drawing these new weights, I began modifying some of the forms of the new glyphs away from the original Chesterfield glyphs in order to build a more flexible brick/grid structure for the development of various weights. The most noticeable difference between these three new faces and the original is the lowered x-height. That said, there are still some compromises between the different weights and because of that I've given them these royalty names instead of the normal practice of light, regular, and bold weight names. One of the biggest compromises occurs in the Prince weight, where I was unable to add the notch where bowls and shoulders meet stems (see King and Queen weights) without adding too much extra black weight to those parts of the glyph.

A work in progress for sure. Any help/thoughts/repulsions/bile appreciated.

See also: Chesterfield King and Chesterfield Queen.

Sans Serious III

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

Sans Serious IV

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

Sans Serious I

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The ‘Sans Serious’ Series is a group of tribute typefaces meant to honor Dutch designer and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer.

Along with Wim Crouwel and Josef Albers, Jurrian Schrofer (1926 - 1990) was among the Bauhaus pioneers of grid-based modular typography and design.

Schrofer's work experimented with type, light, and color and focused on mathematical shapes and pattern.

From the book ‘Dutch Type’ by Jan Middendorp:

“Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily called Sans serious - but this was never his goal. ‘Is it necessary’, he wrote, ‘to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes’ Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms ‘made to measure’ as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, ‘Les textes sociologiques’ from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids.”

“In his booklet ‘Letters op maat’ (‘Type made to measure’, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven.”

Read more from ‘Dutch Type’.

Image from Letters op matt.

More images of Jurriaan Schrofer's work on Flickr:

Schrofer in Total Design book.

Cover for European Journal of Social Psycology

Museumjournaal, design Jurriaan Schrofer

Die Internationale Avant-Garde

Jurriaan Schrofer - Fodor catalog

Note: for all fonts in the ‘Sans Serious’ Series, the alphabet is the same for upper and lowercase.

Factory

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The Factory fontstruction is dedicated to the good folks working to pass the Employment Free Choice Act (EFCA) through the 111th United States Congress. Team up!

Mooch

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Experiment in brick scaling and overlapping.

Hunstruct Tall

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hunstruct's taller cousin.

Hunstruct

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hunstrüct is my first attempt at designing a contemporary blackletter typeface within Fontstruct. The typeface draws inspiration from the long tradition of German Fraktur styled blackletters. The name Hunstrück is taken from a mountain range in Germany called the Hunsrück. Primarily I was aiming to build a face that would work well as a display type for gig posters and larger headlines but as I reworked the typeface I tried to strike a balance between text and display.

Big thanks goes to djnippa for his hard work in spacing this font properly.

Slug

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is a Sessions flavored remix of Saberrider's wonderful Poff font.

Micromoog Remix

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is a clone/remix of Micromoog. This font should ONLY be used to set the titles for a bad Michael Bay movie where the plot features an alien breed of energy drink swillin' robots that fight against extreme sport celebrities in an attempt to rid the earth of BMX bikes, skateboards, all neon colors & fun.

Lowercase carries a full set of X-TREME alternates.