120114225
Published: 30th May, 2009
Last edited: 30th June, 2009
Created: 27th May, 2009
A tribute to Josef Albers: inadvertently inspired by saberrider and afrojet.
This font totally happened by accident. Recently, saberrider created steep, which uses a 2.0 x 1.11 filter setting to smoothly blend the quarter-circle bricks into the triangles. After saberrider created his experimental variable scale fontstruction, it lead me to revisit an abandoned work I did from last year that was done in a similar scale. After getting over the initial disgust of looking at the dismal failure, I started tweaking. Then I decided to tweak the letters instead. It became apparent that I could create a stencil type font that also looked like Josef Alber's font. Coincidentally, Saberrider also has a variation with fontstract,
and of course, that Stewf guy has his own family of Leaflets. ;-) Afrojet's sessions came into play in creating some of the letter forms, especially the numerals. The final filter setting became 1.638 x 1.08, which created a nice fusion of the curved and triangular bricks, but was also naturally inclined to necessitate the vertical divide on each glyph. The rest flowed rather easily from there. Here's to more happy accidents. =)
The sample is also a tribute to Alber's color theory, showing the names in identical colors, which, when juxtaposed over contrasting colors tricks the eye into thinking the bottom name is darker than the top.
The following Josef Albers quote can relate to all things creative, like fontstructing, not just color:
"It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories.
As we begin principally with the material, color itself, and its action and interaction as registered in our minds, we practice first and mainly a study of ourselves.
Thus, we replace looking backward by looking first at ourselves and our surroundings, and replace retrospection with introspection."
- Josef Albers
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17873243241
Published: 22nd April, 2009
Last edited: 30th July, 2013
Created: 20th April, 2009
Exactly one year ago, I released Brikd. This is kind of the same thing without the bricks. and the Rick Roll. plus a 3D extrusion. and faded reflection. and rendered in 1:2 scale.
073013 Updated with the New Pointy Bricks for sharper sheens. This is a clone
22719417
Published: 21st April, 2009
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 9th March, 2009
This takes the Structurozza modification and implements global brick replacements using the pentagonal bricks.This is a clone of structurozza
4101204
Published: 21st April, 2009
Last edited: 26th March, 2010
Created: 9th March, 2009
I noticed the scaling artifacts from Structurosa Faux Bold and decided to stretch and smooth them out. 1.8 x .95 scale.
Respect to Mr. Paul Hunt!This is a clone of Structurosa Faux Bold
1764607
Published: 6th March, 2009
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 6th March, 2009
Just an excuse to release something on the opening day of the WATCHMEN movie. It's a very rough negative linear rendition of the Futura Bold Condensed font that is used as the Watchmen title.
A friend of mine let me read his copy of the Watchmen graphic novel. An epic deconstruction of the superhero genre with multi-threaded storylines and deep allegorical character analysis. A masterful work of sequential art and storytelling. This font hardly does it any justice. Hopefully the movie will do that. Ironically, I related to the character Ozymandias.
Rendered at 1:2 scale. LC has alternating spacing. Dash creates linear spaces.
288287436
Published: 17th February, 2009
Last edited: 19th June, 2009
Created: 17th February, 2009
Circa 1980 New York subway trains with Single-Letter Top-To-Bottom Whole Cars.
Two cars on DeTrayne are dedicated to influential graffiti artists that have passed away way too soon.
Dondi, from New York, was a master of readable and wildstyle letterforms, whole-car masterpieces, colorful backgrounds and characters. He was also a pioneer in taking his art from the subway to art galleries worldwide. Dondi passed on October 2, 1998 from complications from AIDS.
On this day, Feb. 17, in the year 2000, legendary San Francisco Bay Area graffiti artist, Dream, was robbed and killed at gunpoint. It was a major loss, not just for the bay area, but the worldwide graffiti art community. One of Dream's most famous pieces, "Best of Both Worlds," displayed a mastery of two intricate west coast styles that raised the bar in defining a graffiti "king." A testament to his greatness is his memorial wall in Daly City that still stands untouched to this day, and includes tribute pieces from artists that have traveled from all over the world to contribute. It was a great honor to have worked on a music video that served as a tribute to Dream, and brought his family, friends, and his crew TDK together again for a celebration of his life and art.
Graffiti art has been a major influence on me and every typographic creation I develop. Out of everything I've publicly shared, this fontstruction is the most meaningful and defining for me. Hi, I am Geneus1: digital graffiti artist.
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16074315
Published: 16th February, 2009
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 16th February, 2009
Looks like it can also pass for DeFence, but these are meant to be train tracks. Rendered at 1.75:2 scale.
...DeTrayne will be arriving shortly...This is a clone
7956712
Published: 14th February, 2009
Last edited: 3rd June, 2009
Created: 13th February, 2009
Clone of MULTIVERSE*basic.
New addition to kix's Multiverse family. I took some liberties with adjusting the 45 degree lines in order to make the highlights work. A really weird moire pattern appears on the font preview, the pixel preview shows a nice embossed grayscale effect. This is a clone of FS MULTIVERSE Basic
26873021
Published: 19th December, 2008
Last edited: 19th June, 2009
Created: 19th December, 2008
My first attempt at a script font. Did you know that out of over 4000 fontstructions, there are only 40 in the category at this time? That's like 1%. Here's to increasing the percentage. Hopefully I'll be able to do an uppercase.This is a clone
241114032
Published: 16th October, 2008
Last edited: 16th October, 2011
Created: 15th October, 2008
Updated Halloween dingbats.
A- Happy Haloween
B- Pumpkin grin
C- Cat on fence
D- Skull
E- Witch
F- Pumpkin face by kix
G- Bats by kix
H- Frank
I- Graveyard
J- Haunted House
K- Ghostie
L- Mummy
M- Eyeball
N- Started off as dracula, but ended up looking like Raam, the final boss in Gears of War
O- Trick or Treat
PQRST- various pumpkinheads
591173845
Published: 26th September, 2008
Last edited: 19th June, 2009
Created: 26th September, 2008
I imagine this is what MC Escher's checkerboard would look like...if it were a font.This is a clone
51622727
Published: 17th September, 2008
Last edited: 27th June, 2015
Created: 17th September, 2008
This was more of a test in using a lot of brick stacking, made popular by Williaum, and combining them with widened bricks. Each letter is a single lego brick just for simplicity's sake. Happy 50th Birthday to Lego.
062715. Nudged edges for better spacing.
662132892
Published: 12th September, 2008
Last edited: 23rd June, 2009
Created: 12th September, 2008
Just like Fluoralei, but with a lighter pattern that extends thru each horizontonal bar.This is a clone
8492228135
Published: 12th September, 2008
Last edited: 3rd June, 2009
Created: 12th September, 2008
Inspired by caseycastille's Chinese Chairs, this started out as an exploration of optional letters for that font. Then I just doodled some repeating patterns. Then I saw how I can fill the patterns inside the letters. They fit together pretty easily for vertical letters, but diagonals were really tricky. The end product resembled Hawaiian leis draped over each glyph. Very floral. So there you have it. Flowers. For Casey. :)This is a clone
891386
Published: 2nd September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 2nd September, 2008
Tangience. A fractionally scaled fontstruction utilizing a molecular coagulation of fused tangent circles. Best viewed magnified under an electron microscope.This is a clone
12138215
Published: 15th August, 2008
Last edited: 17th February, 2009
Created: 15th August, 2008
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...there was this font...
30979817
Published: 11th August, 2008
Last edited: 23rd June, 2009
Created: 11th August, 2008
Inspired by the fantastic entries in the FontStruct Slab Serif Gallery, here's my first attempt at a Fat Slab. It's got hard hammered edges but with soft and rounded velvety serifs.This is a clone
241258928
Published: 22nd July, 2008
Last edited: 4th January, 2014
Created: 19th July, 2008
The alphabet in a Rubik's cube. Really, its in there. Just barely. Positive and negative versions, miraculously with some punctuation. Numerals are counted thru block spaces. The caps are given a 3D highlight to accentuate the block letters. Check out the Pixel Preview.This is a clone of Blokula
432992
Published: 7th July, 2008
Last edited: 5th June, 2009
Created: 10th June, 2008
It's a little bit Rock & Roll. Heavy Metal band logo font...or maybe a Guitar Hero band. Rock on with yo bad self!This is a clone
20655618
Published: 1st July, 2008
Last edited: 20th June, 2009
Created: 1st July, 2008
“The process is a little reminiscent of Tetris, but without the overwhelming feeling that sets in when the pieces start dropping at an impossibly rapid pace.”
Yes! Fun and addictive like Tetris.
Tetrisyde is entirely made up of Tetris blocks. (The preview may be a little off due to scaling, but trust me, they're there. You might get a better view by scrolling in increments.) This font is inspired by the above quote from ReadyMade magazine and Stephen Coles' comment on FontStructions inspired by Tetris. Enjoy!
39478043
Published: 29th June, 2008
Last edited: 7th March, 2009
Created: 29th June, 2008
Unleashing hell on another opening day. Based on the Hellboy logo. Added nicks and cuts on the outline and set it on fire.
Guillermo Del Toro is on fire with Hellboy II. Looks like it could be a sequel to Pan's Labyrinth as well.
Special characters: < -Flaming Sword Left
> -Flaming Sword Right
[ -Fire Start Top Left
] -Fire Finish Top Right
{ -Fire Start Left
} -Fire Finish Right
= -Fire Space
+ -Fire Space Top
` -Hellboy
515996
Published: 25th June, 2008
Last edited: 20th May, 2010
Created: 25th June, 2008
Two bricks, no tricks. This font is two bricks high. Based on what I use to make my "signature" on each font.
1721989
Published: 22nd June, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 22nd June, 2008
It's a little bit country. This one makes me hungry for some reason. All caps w/ some alts in lowercase.
29475570201
Published: 7th June, 2008
Last edited: 30th June, 2009
Created: 7th June, 2008
Don't get this font angry. You wouldn't like it when its angry.
UC is cracked, LC is solid. Cracked period = ","
Cracked exclamations = "@"
Cracked questionmark = "/"
813127747
Published: 29th May, 2008
Last edited: 29th May, 2009
Created: 29th May, 2008
Blood splattered on the walls of Arkham. An insidious font of non-modularity. Released on opening day of the Dark Knight, but inspired by the graphic novel "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth," released in 1989. Even today it is insanely sick and beautiful. It was one of Heath Ledger's references for going deeper into the mind of the Joker.
22021839
Published: 29th May, 2008
Last edited: 13th June, 2009
Created: 29th May, 2008
LCD or LED display typeface. Inspired by the baggage claim LED scrolling message system at the Oakland Airport. Yes, I "cheated" on the Latin accents, but it was a nice challenge in getting them to work in the small space. Looks deceptively simple, but tricky to get to preview properly. Use the grave key ` to type blank spaces.
9101867
Published: 25th May, 2008
Last edited: 28th February, 2009
Created: 25th May, 2008
Sans Serif font with letter forms humbly based on Aldo Novarese's Eurostile Extended.This is a clone