A blobby, irregular Y2K-inspired font

Continuing in the style of Ardeus.

SANS SERIFSCO — Humanist / Neo-Grotesque Sans-Serif

A contemporary neo-grotesque sans-serif design with regular weight.

I tried to add subtle diverse and nuanced visual elegance while still remaining minimalistic. Most significant feature is the subtle stroke modulations, distinguishing this from a more geometric style.

Designed to be versatile and suitable for a wide range of different purposes and optimized for legibility in small point size body copy.

The font was constructed on a large grid using linear interpolation (also known as faux-Bézier method). This allowed the most freedom for constructing more complex custom forms, curvatures and all the various stroke modulations.
The font has a total vertical height of 88 square grid units, this is including all optical compensations, ascends / descends and accents.

The heavy version of Capsaicin released back in 2020. Adding thickness wasn't that straightforward due to brick limitations. Alternate construction methods were implemented on the glyphs to create similar inktraps without sacrificing the innate qualities of the typeface.

I would like to continue working on it to make it more visually consistent, but I'll stop at this moment or else it might be a perpetual WIP.

Clone of Tracking with touch-ups to make it seeem more natural-looking

The design process is typical in its atypicality (yes, it is a word, or, at least, should be!).

The atypicality necessitates the telling of the story behind it.

Looking for something to do...something easy to do, I came across the font shown 5th from the top in this article on Dieline. "I can do this," thought I. I did a 2 that looked similar. Based on that, did the 3. 5 6 9. 0 8. 1 7. "Hmm." Add the horizontal stripes. 7. 4? "No." Re-4? "No. Another 4? Perhaps thinner sides?" "Even thinner." "Hmm." Redo 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9. "Maybe this is better. OK, lets do the letters." Start with Z because it is almost a 2 with minor curve tweak. Do the S. B because 3 is done. A. V. C. E. F L. J. Etc.

The glyphs so far have a 3 horizontal band appearance. Do the lowercase. a is two bands. b is two bands...but how high should the ascender be? Also, the x-height seems wrong. Off somehow. "Can I do a 2 band uppercase with the letter slightly taller. Maybe 2 bricks taller?"

Redo A. Redo B. "No this B is not working." Redo B. Redo B. Redo B. "Hmm. Maybe." Redo C D. Redo E F L. "OK, this might work." Redo to all uppercase letters.

Do the lowercase. "Yes I like the new f." Redo other letters to include the flip. Most of the letters are the same width. "Maybe I can make this a mono-space font." Redo m. Redo M. W. V. "The A looks odd." Redo A. And so on.

The font may have started as a simple thing but it is very different now. "I'll just publish it." "No, I should at least do the basic punctuations." "No this hyphen is too thick." Redo. "Now it is too thin." Redo. "Now it is too wide. But this is mono-space font. The width cannot be altered." +. "That just looks weird." Redo +. Now the - looks off. Redo -. Now they both don't fit with the rest of the font. Redo + -. "No. I'll come back to them." Do [. "No that's too heavy top and bottom." Redo [.  Do (. "This needs a different curve." Redo (. "Can I use this new curve somewhere else?" Redo @. "Hmm." Do ©. Do ®. Do ™. Do “. "I can't make this so wide." Do ‘. "Definately cannot make it mono-space." Redo all punctuation to be their natural width. "This is no longer a mono-space font. Should I redo M m W w to be more natural?" Redo do m. "No this is too much work. I can't be bothered anymore. Let the m's and w's be."

"The punctuation looks niiice. Should I do a font to match these?"

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listening to too much music by Herbalistek gave me this Carhartt logo-looking cyber font

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Emil has a sympatic character, even if he has his little edges and corners. Nevertheless, Emil is not too eccentric.  It' s possible to work with him and maybe Emil will go one step further towards italics...?

will do the kerning for this one later. this one is for the squids

while this was made for a logo, it is much more experimental and sci-fi  than the others. it feels like an evolution of my previous font "pearl." 

computer is running too fast! just kidding. its really slow.

this font was created for the logo of my discord server, "DOLPHIN." it was actually my first fontstruction, but has undergone some revisions and is now being released publically. it is heavily inspired by the font "FUTU" by emil bertell.

commission for starstruck (@starstruckboye on twitter). 

wacky counter-part to my previous typeface, "tabby." named after my other cat.

My first serious attempt at a font. Please leave comments and constructive criticism. My vision for this font is to be somewhat hard-to-read, futuristic, abstract, and modern.