Brutal Exchange of a Smug for Some Faith
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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. -
Info:Created on 17th September 2009. Last edited on 14th November 2009.
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Too many beautiful glyphs to count. The U and the N and the R. The H and the X. The masterful compositions with just the right touch of brickstacking for certain layers (The Q, the G, the D, the B, the C, the K). A vs. V. L vs. J. M, W, and E! But especially the F. And, again, that magical Q!
I could go on, my friend, singing the praises of this masterpiece. The question becomes: How to properly display this as a featured download?
As someone who was involved in screenprinting (way back in the 60s) I can really appreciate this design (and the others in your gallery) .... hmmmm, I can almost smell the tri-chromatic inks.
I get your point (if one had to change, I would pick M). But I really dig the conceptual elegance of rotated and repeated forms. It’s the rhythm that helps showcase those showstoppers (Q, O, X, Z – yeah, and especially that F again). But is it punk or is it polka, music or muzak, acid jazz or bad acid? I know what my ears say, but yours must ultimately decide.
Actually, though, I have always been unreasonable fond of the pacman-style Art Deco M. In that case, mirrored chucky trapezoids might do the trick. This just brings up the idea of using the diacritics for alternates (Å+å = YAY!). But, then again, why bloat something already so willfully, brutally paired down to its most fundamental elements?
@will.i.ૐ You're totally right. Seems I was lost within the potentials of my own font. No need for alt glyphs; if you want to flip one of the glyphs just swap lowercase for uppercase (or vis a versa). In this example, the dominant red color is swapped to the uppercase. Punk becomes polka (and Jello Biafra records an instrumental accordion record).
Bravo on a brilliant font.
You cant tell the difference between a Q and a O
and you cant tell the difference between an o and a G
It would be kind of nice if you could actually read it.
4/10
Read this part of description:
"'Brutal' is an experiment in creating a one brick fontstruction for multilayered screen printing".
And look at the example picture that's red and black.
It's only unreadable in the unlayered state.
It's not like i have that much understanding anyway. for one thing: i'm only 10 years old.
keep in mind that there aren't many ten-year-olds that can make a font with almost 200 characters. Heck, most of yours only have 20-50.
keep in mind that there aren't many ten-year-olds that can make a font with almost 200 characters. Heck, most of yours only have 20-50.
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Remember to use 2 different colors and a right blend mode.
I will post a guide that shows how to use this font if you want.
@Frozen99: Actually I think most of the alt characters (esp. More Latin & Latin A) are just base letters with diacritics. For a font to be good requires creativity and so an effort put into ~50 letters can be already splendid depending on the font. Quality over quantity, as they always say.
I hope you don't mind I stole your idea for one of my fonts, if so I'll take it down.
Actually I tested it, it did not seem to work... Oh well...
wow. Cool!!!!!! TOO COOL
try using this font. looks better without overlapping two letters
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1222233/4x4x
wow. "brutal exchange of a smug for some faith"? lol. afrojet, you're so funny XD
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