Favorite FontStructions from _pv (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“Gridlock” by funk_king

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 07:01:14 +0000

I named this kind of randomly, but really like the name and think its fits - not for an obvious reason. It seems FS comps always bring out the creativity in the community. I may be like many regarding FS about the amount of time available to devote to the art and craft of FS design, especially even more during the holiday season. So what does Mr Meek do? Well, I am coining the term 'Gridlock' to mean the inability to use FS even though you want to - akin to writer's block or as FSer cam be 'gridlocked' while working on a font...for whatever reason. Blah, blah. Anyway, it always seems these comps have the insane ability to utterly destroy 'Gridlock' and get things moving again. God bless, Mr Meek.

“BerlinFraktur Pixel” by Hazzy25

Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:13:38 +0000

“Atomised” by four

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:55:51 +0000

“Whoopee ” by afrojet

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:05:44 +0000

Because you can never have enough ball terminals...

“Hunstruct” by afrojet

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:47:50 +0000

Hunstrüct is my first attempt at designing a contemporary blackletter typeface within Fontstruct. The typeface draws inspiration from the long tradition of German Fraktur styled blackletters. The name Hunstrück is taken from a mountain range in Germany called the Hunsrück. Primarily I was aiming to build a face that would work well as a display type for gig posters and larger headlines but as I reworked the typeface I tried to strike a balance between text and display.

Big thanks goes to djnippa for his hard work in spacing this font properly.

“Slug” by afrojet

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:37:21 +0000

This is a Sessions flavored remix of Saberrider's wonderful Poff font.

“Gaga Stencil” by afrojet

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:08:16 +0000

Experimenting with reverse glyph building (knockouts) to create a modular monoline font with more fluid, rounded shapes. A work in progress. I would appreciate any and all feedback, suggestions, etc.

“StacheStruct” by afrojet

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:42:54 +0000

Something fun for a Friday.

“Jetstream” by afrojet

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:36:28 +0000

Loosely based on several styles of letter and numeral forms observed on various aircrafts at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. The museum is home of Howard Hughes Flying Boat H-4 Hercules (aka, the Spruce Goose).

Jetstream is a clone of Perforate. Jetstream's x-height is higher. The uppercase horizontals are narrower. The lowercase 'a' was made two-story. Without the constraints of the perforations, I was able to better center the crossbar of lowercase 'e', 's' and 'x'. Some numerals have also been modified.

“Perforate” by afrojet

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:13:06 +0000

“Playtime Bold” by afrojet

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:49:52 +0000

Thanks to the additional bricks Mr. Meek released, I was able to add the long lost family member—Playtime Bold—with just a few clicks.

“Thunderball” by afrojet

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:27:36 +0000

Thunderball FAQ:

Q: What's with the name?
A: At some point over the holidays, the movie Thunderball was on and I got to thinking about jet packs, Aston Martins, archenemies, Blofeld, SPECTRE and whether Miami is really worth 100 Million in diamonds or if it might have been better just to keep the diamonds instead of trying to save Miami. I mean, at the time of the movie, Miami hadn't even discovered cocaine yet and really wasn't on the map. If I were Blofeld, I would have picked an entirely different city to hold a bomb threat over. It was the sixties after all, take out San Francisco. Incidentally, at one point in the movie Bond finds himself in the Bahamas in the middle of a junkanoo, which is a kind of street fair where folks wear insanely colorful costumes (mostly of feathers) and dance around. Junkanoo! Now that would make a great name for a font. Much better than Thunderball. Is it too late to change the name?

Q: Your recent output - including this clodhopper - seems to be stuck on the 1.8 brick size filter, is your filter toggle stuck or something?
A: Your Mom's filter toggle is stuck, buddy! And my next font will be called Clodhopper, and it will be yet another font built at 1.8 and it's going to be big and thick so you'll really feel it when I beat on your skull with it.

Q: Whoa! Touchy. Ok, how about that uppercase 'T', it's awfully funny looking, you gonna change it?
A: Oh Boy. You just don't know when to quit, do you? The 'T' began as a spacing compromise but over the last few days it has grown on me - overtaken me really - like some saccharine soaked pop song that I hate but secretly love. So back off on the 'T', it's not going anywhere.

Q: Any last thoughts?
A: Blofeld, Junkanoo, Clodhopper - all rad names for fonts that have yet to be born. Q.E.D.

“Playtime Cutouts” by afrojet

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:12:58 +0000

The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.

“Playtime Rounded Bold” by afrojet

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:12:21 +0000

“Playtime Rounded” by afrojet

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:11:38 +0000

“Mooch Squared” by afrojet

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:57:37 +0000

Clone of Mooch. A squared off version with an attempt at an uppercase.

“Mooch” by afrojet

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:40:14 +0000

Experiment in brick scaling and overlapping.

“Breakout” by afrojet

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:32:03 +0000

This Fontstruction was produced after plugging in the Atari 2600 the other night and falling in love all over again with the minimalist simplicity of the game Breakout.

A little Jobs/Wozniak drama from the development story of the game Breakout:

"Breakout, a discrete logic (non-microprocessor) game, was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, after the latter had "rejoined" Atari after the merge of Atari subsidiary Kee Games.

"Al Alcorn was assigned as the project manager, and began development with Cyan Engineering in 1975. The same year, Alcorn assigned Steve Jobs to design a prototype. Jobs was offered USD$750, with an extra $100 each time a chip was eliminated from the prospected design. Jobs promised to complete a prototype within four days. Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak—employee of Hewlett-Packard—was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage.

"The original deadline was met after Wozniak didn't sleep for four days straight. In the end 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a $5000 USD bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375."

-from Wikipedia

“Brainfreeze” by afrojet

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:44:34 +0000

The Slurpee Font - Created and fueled by an unhealthy summer obsession with the world's greatest beverage you can drink/eat with a straw. A little interweb research gave some hints at a few more glyphs than the initial six glyphs in the 'Slurpee' logo. In some cases, like with the 'c' glyph, I noticed that it had been drawn differently in different usage. See here and here.

Being that the current Slurpee logo is Unicase, I decided to try and make uppercase and lowercase alternatives that can be mixed and matched for the unicase feel.

See also Chank Diesel's wonderful font Cosmic, which draws from the old school Slurpee branding.

P.S. The Monster Black Ice flavor that came out this summer was ridiculously awesome.

“Steeplechase” by afrojet

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:32:58 +0000

Good evening and welcome to the Steeplechase, Fonstruct's premier jazz club. Be-bop on over to the bar and order your favorite libation. The show is about to start.