20559811
Published: 28th October, 2008
Last edited: 19th November, 2008
Created: 28th October, 2008
This Fontstruction was produced after plugging in the Atari 2600 the other night and falling in love all over again with the minimalist simplicity of the game Breakout.
A little Jobs/Wozniak drama from the development story of the game Breakout:
"Breakout, a discrete logic (non-microprocessor) game, was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, after the latter had "rejoined" Atari after the merge of Atari subsidiary Kee Games.
"Al Alcorn was assigned as the project manager, and began development with Cyan Engineering in 1975. The same year, Alcorn assigned Steve Jobs to design a prototype. Jobs was offered USD$750, with an extra $100 each time a chip was eliminated from the prospected design. Jobs promised to complete a prototype within four days. Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak—employee of Hewlett-Packard—was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage.
"The original deadline was met after Wozniak didn't sleep for four days straight. In the end 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a $5000 USD bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375."
284114036
Published: 28th October, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 18th October, 2008
Further exploration of the...this...style of type design. I was going to do the uppercase but then I realized that I wasn't. Go figure.
208820710
Published: 25th October, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 9th August, 2008
Loosely based on a combination of the lettering of Mark Simonson's "Alaska Fish House" sign and Emigre's "Brothers Bold" (mostly to fill in the many character gaps the sign left me with).
15375211
Published: 22nd October, 2008
Last edited: 9th June, 2010
Created: 22nd October, 2008
inspired by stones on the street...
this was like a "flash"!
i started another new font, just NOT to forget the idea i had, which i use to do always, when i got lack of free time.
usually i create 3-5 glyphs to remind myself of the style, etc...
but this here took about, let's say 15 min of working time. it just flowed as if some"thing" leads my right hand :)
...more glyphs to come, when i got less other work to do. if i think about the fun this was, it won't take long.
pace
537905
Published: 20th October, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 4th October, 2008
A Monospaced font.
I developed this from my Anna63Alto Font.
4911835
Published: 20th October, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 19th October, 2008
A monospaced Font based on a 9x9 Grid.
Upper case is the normal charset. Lower case offers some alternates.
Enjoy. Comments welcome :)This is a clone of Alto Monospaced
1492382
Published: 17th October, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 3rd September, 2008
Based on Wim Crouwel's hand lettering for the 1968 vormgevers poster
27383925
Published: 15th October, 2008
Last edited: 23rd November, 2009
Created: 14th October, 2008
:) other electronic fonts: microcircuitz or micro clean.This is a clone of Circuit Board Outline
864367
Published: 12th October, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 9th October, 2008
Now you can smell great, even when you're designing! This typeface was inspired by Axe male grooming products, particularly Axe's line of shower gels. NOTE: This typeface may result in, but is not limited to, exceptional design projects and/or late nights.
371168331
Published: 12th October, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 2nd October, 2008
A 3D isometric boxed set that looks like a blackletter font.
4021674
Published: 12th October, 2008
Last edited: 28th October, 2009
Created: 10th October, 2008
Although I had no intention of further development on the FS_Minimal front, but the design of the lowercase s of Minimal compelled me to do this one. It appears as a clone because I wanted to maintain a link to the original, but all the characters have been build anew. All except the lowercase s from Minimal which became the uppercase S for _istic.This is a clone of fs Minimal
376198025
Published: 7th October, 2008
Last edited: 12th June, 2009
Created: 30th September, 2008
I really like the way this one turned out. It uses minimal grid blocks to achieve the desired effect (although at ~2x2 and the slivers and the pinhole dots, there are a surprisingly large number of actual bricks used per glyph than evident at a quick glance, although not a single overlapping brick is used without express purpose). I think this is my favorite of all the ones I've done so far. It is with nervous anticipation that I let it free. Go forth and propagate, young font; it's You v World!
43643538
Published: 4th October, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 20th September, 2008
This font is a template. Clone it, make it beautiful, and share it. Don't just tweak it, make it your own. I'm sure you can think of something. There are a few circles floating around on spare characters in case you need them. Be warned, it has more squares per glyph than I've ever seen in a fontstruction, so there could be downloading troubles. Enjoy!This is a clone
612749
Published: 4th October, 2008
Last edited: 11th November, 2009
Created: 3rd October, 2008
edit of one of my personal favorites. once again as they say less is more.This is a clone