Djangogh Unpenned

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by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ)

Cloned from djangogh by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ).

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Created on 1st June 2013. Last edited on 25th August 2013.
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16 Comments

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 3rd june 2013

This began as a clone of the original djangogh, reinventing it as an ultra-bold, broad-nibbed gothic display sans. The Script comp provided me impetus to flesh it out further in the direction of an ultra-weight connected script face.

The connectors mimic the angle of inclination of the fat pen that scribes these glyphs, giving most of them a slight uptick. This consistent angle (and the high contrast) lands it in the same family of script as Shasta’s classic High Voltage, yet the two remain distinct. Djangogh Unpenned brings a sexy corpulence, curvaceousness paired with kinky inktraps set on an undulating baseline (and surely it is less electric than Shasta’s epic work).

Connection became a major theme upon which to reconsider all the characters. I fine tuned and revised the outer curves and placement of diagonals to ensure dynamic, smooth, and consistent linkages and some lovely auto-ligatures for certain letter pairings.

Please enjoy a private clone to crack open and appreciate my host of new solutions. :)

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 3rd june 2013

will.i.ૐ in pure state! My 10 2U!

Comment by elmoyenique 3rd june 2013

I cannot wrap my mind around your 260+ custom-made bricks, your uncanny inktraps, and the smart use of the diagonals in @, ©, and ® that work around the filters. Undoubtedly the most clever font on Fontstruct in my opinion.

Comment by ETHproductions 3rd june 2013

Mil gracias, compañeros! :)

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 3rd june 2013

Link not links because djangogh is hidden.

Comment by opipik 3rd june 2013

@opipik: djangogh is shared, but I had mis-entered the hyperlink above. It’s fixed, now ~ thanks for noticing! :)

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 3rd june 2013

... 10/10+fav+mind blown

Comment by Houlaiziaa 4th june 2013

Awesome, this is just, best font ever! Was this REALLY made on FS, Will? Or did you make this in a vector app and hack into FS and put it in. GIGA-MEGA-HEXA-TERA-AWESOMENESS PUSHED TO THE MAXIMUM LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10/10+fav+download+told all my friends+brain exploded from awesomeness overload

Comment by Noah F. Ross (winty5) 4th june 2013

Oh, and those bullets :D

Comment by Houlaiziaa 4th june 2013

What a powerful font! The connectors really weave this together and are a natural follow on from your earlier project, which I hadn't looked at in detail before.

Comment by four 4th june 2013

Connected genius and Ginsberg! 10/10++++++++

Comment by p2pnut 4th june 2013

You don't have your reputation for nothing, really. There are so many details here that I learn from... Awesome.

Comment by laynecom 4th june 2013

I love when a new approach I take to an old problem thrills and inspires you guys. The ability to communicate ideas without words (but with glyphs!), to transmit ideas within the constructions themselves – this is my greatest joy in fontstructing. I realize I want to speak less about, and to speak more with. To say it with the shapes. To create designs so simple yet layered, so recognizable – even obvious – yet also mind-bending and unknown. So that you can’t help but press the clone button. Not pictures worth thousands of words, but modular systems worthy of dozens of fonts.

My heartfelt gratitude for all your ability and efforts to hear my thoughts. Is it telepathy, then, or synesthesia? ;)

Comment by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ) 4th june 2013