thalamic: FontStructions

fs go to sleep

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

fs Værktøj

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

Openly inspired by (but not a ripoff of) the brand identity of Høejmark Cycles.

fs Permutation B I

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

Permutation: The act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements.

One font, two different brick combinations.

Picking any two bricks from the 211 available gives a total possible combinations of 22155 (211C2) different fonts. Counting a certain kinds of bricks as one--all four 45degree, for instance--gives 36 unique bricks, resulting in 2211 (67C2) unique combinations or fonts.

In this font, if the bricks are swapped with each other, the result will be a different font. Hence order of the bricks matter. In which case, nCr (combinations) is not the right choice. What's needed is nPr (permutations). 211P2 gives 44310 permutations and a 67P2 gives 4422 permutations.

So, at a minimum, 4422 fonts are possible with the current implementation of FontStruct, with just this particular layout of bricks.

Staggering.

—Updated May 6, 2013

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This new version is not strictly a permutation of the previous set. This B set uses one brick for the background and three, sometimes four, bricks for the letters. Let's see what new permutations are possible out of this one.

fs Jester

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

fs Permutation XII

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

Permutation: The act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements.

One font, two different brick combinations.

Picking any two bricks from the 169 available gives a total possible combinations of 14196 (169C2) different fonts. Counting a certain kinds of bricks as one--all four 45degree, for instance--gives 36 unique bricks, resulting in 630 (36C2) unique combinations or fonts.

In this font, if the bricks are swapped with each other, the result will be a different font. Hence order of the bricks matter. In which case, nCr (combinations) is not the right choice. What's needed is nPr (permutations). 169P2 gives 28392 permutations and a 36P2 gives 1260 permutations.

So, at a minimum, 1260 fonts are possible with the current implementation of FontStruct, with just this particular layout of bricks.

Staggering.

fs Insatiable

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

fs electronic

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

An as-close replication as I could of the typeface on Electronic's brilliant first epynomous album. The rest of the letters are a guess. I may have done this font before. Who knows! I can't search through 400 fs to look for it.

fs Carbon

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

fs When We Were Young

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

fs SHŌGUN tiny

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

Looking at fs SHŌGUN, it occured to me that it might just be doable in 2×3-ish grid. At 1.3 filter setting, it almost was. I couldn't figure out how to do a 1/8th center square, hence the holes. No big deal, just an experiment.

fs Slate

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

fs OPTICAL

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

Type Therapy (Click on PXL. Then shift-click on PXL twice.)

fs SHŌGUN

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

I felt like doing something easy.

fs iie Filled

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

Clone of fs iie.

fs iie

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

fs Blocky

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

fs Anonon

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

I seem to be caught in a rut. All my work is resembling everything else I did in the past. I may have hit upon, what I consider, a good typographic balance between glyph design and fontstruct limitations or I simply may have run out of ideas. Only time will tell. :)

fs Thalamic

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

fs Institutional 2

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

Now with squared-off corners.

fs chunky

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