minimum: FontStructions

fs Bas Relief

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

fs Scroll (Not)

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

Clone of fs Scroll.

fs Scroll

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

fs A Fault in Reality

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

Waaaaaaaay too many dots. ^_^

fs Arc Test 2:2

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

Clone of fs Arc Test 1:1, which was started on Fri, 27th August, 11:59 AM 2010.

As simple as this fs may appear to be, it was much more complex to pull off. The curves and angles just did not match. The original version was at filter 1:1. Today--after a long time--I had enough free time to play around. Cloned and upped the filter to 2:2 (well, 1.75:1.75 to be exact). The 0.25 offset was initially put into place for the creative process, just so I know which brick was where. The breaks became a design element somewhere along the way. That caused additional brick placement problems. A full 2:2 filter would have made things much easier. Regardless, I am reasonably satisfied with the outcome. Needless to say, each glyph went through a whole bunch of iterations before settling on what's currently visible. Not all turned out good. The 'V', for instance. Who knows, better solutions may exist.

Take a square, split it horizontally, vertically and diagonally. This gives just 16 line segments to work with. I have a book where the author lists every possible combination of those 16 line segments. That gives a staggering 65535 total possibilities. And that's just straight lines. I mention this because the uppercase grid here is 6×8=48 bricks (counting one 2:2 brick as 4 1:1 bricks). Then there is the possibility of using a whole slew of 4×4 brick shape. I am not even going to attempt to figure out how many total possible combinations that makes but I am sure it is a number much larger than 65535.

The point is, with so many possible brick combinations, better solutions most probably exist. I just may be too narrow-minded to visualize them.

fs no escape

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

fs prompt

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

There is a demoscene group called farbrausch. One of their demo (fr-052: platinum) used this basic idea for the glyphs here.

fs ini

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

fs ini dot

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

Clone of fs ini.

fs Perpetual

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

An on-going project. More glyphs will be added periodically.

fs V Simple

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

fs Pin and Thread

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

A dot font...with a twist. Well, a tie, really. :-)

Exactly 32 bricks tall.

Inspiration: Chuck Jones - The Dot and the Line. (Watch the animation on YouTube to get the full effect)

Take a look at this and this for further explanation.

fs Ink Blot

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

The bulk of this took less than an hour to do. The rest was just tweaks (and me playing Legend of Zelda elsewhere ;-).

With that level of attention paid to it (read: very little), I'm surprised how legible it is at small sizes...and quite a nice cadence to the coming together of letters in words.

PS: Sorry for the burst of sharing and posts. I'm on semester break these days...and just a tad bored. :-)

fs SquaredUp (and nowhere to go)

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

Now blacker than ever...and monospaced.

(Shift+Click PXL to actually see the shapes)

fs I Square

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

Well, there was this way to go.

fs Dots and Dashes

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

Sort of like decoded Morse Code.

fs Super Black

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

fs Unoriginal

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

An unoriginal idea that's been sitting around for a while. Don't go by the January 2010 creation date, no; this is a clone of a clone of a different idea (which may see the light of day yet...or not, whichever comes first ;).

fs Fabric

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

fs minimum

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

Nothing new here. Just a little something at a 'minimum' scale for the user-pic.