DerelictGrowth

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by Joekozak

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First time using Fonstruct. Font designed around the theme of decay, focusing on derelict buildings and areas where nature has begun to take over. Whilst loosely based on the somewhat derelict font, Times New Roman. Welcome any feedback. (work in progress; mainly letter 'R') Best viewed zoomed in slightly.
Info:

Created on 8th October 2010. Last edited on 7th November 2010.
License:

Creative Commons
Categories:
Sets:
Tag:
- Uwe(1046)
- Decay(90)
- Derelict(4)
- Growth(6)
- Rust(5)
- Grunge(55)
- Plant(19)
- Moss(3)
- Mould(4)
- Serif(1492)
- Aged(3)
- Horror(79)

24 Comments

You could of put lower case letters.

Comment by coonotadfoo 31st october 2010

Wow! Great first FontStruction!

Comment by Tylo 31st october 2010

Keep in mind, this is my first fontstruct and this was done in about 2-3 weeks alongside other projects. Lowercase will come sometime :)

Comment by Joekozak 31st october 2010

Great start, reminds me of a similar project I think some students were set last year, and also p2pnut's work.
It looks like you've got a couple of stray bricks in A,B or F which is causing a bigger line spacing than I think you desire.

Comment by djnippa 31st october 2010

Thanks for the heads up, i'll change those now.
Yeah, this is the same project as the year before I think. I was trying to get a different approach to the word decay, rather than it being broken or moulding away.

Comment by Joekozak 31st october 2010

Y IZ THER NO LOWR CAS3?!!!!!

Seriously good man
-Jack

Comment by adumdee 31st october 2010

Can you install this font on your PC/MAC? I think you've reach the limitations of the font mortar, making it difficult to upload on to some systems.

Comment by djnippa 31st october 2010

yeah it seems to download, then change when i use it on word. Any way around this? :/

Comment by Joekozak 31st october 2010

additional note, it does work on mine just that I was trying to type not in capitals. My bad

Comment by Joekozak 31st october 2010

I just tried it on mine, it doesn't even recognise it in the view pane. When uploaded, there is nothing to be seen. It's totally blank.

Comment by djnippa 1st november 2010

Managed to open it in Font Studio 5.0 and the following letters are missing - B,M,O,Q,S,W,Z.
I've no idea what's going on.

Comment by djnippa 1st november 2010

If you do add more glyphs, you probably should do so in a separate FontStruction. It sounds like you're reaching the limits of what's possible within one file.

Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 1st november 2010

It works in word, photoshop, illustrator etc. Just a few of the letters dont work, O and Q . I'll take some of the detail out of them and see what happens

Comment by Joekozak 1st november 2010

Should be ready for download I hope

Comment by Joekozak 2nd november 2010