SPOOKY GHOST FONT. A work in progress. Getting the right spooky apparition look is pretty intensive, but I managed to finish the basic character set before Halloween. :D
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This started as a 5x5 design. After realizing S and Z would look far better if I made them 1 square taller, I converted the whole font to be roughly 5x6. At this low resolution, it's hard to get the degree of irregularity which I think makes these letters look ghostly... but, the idea is certainly present!
This design seems like it'd fit in with a lot of horror and science fiction stuff, too. Apart from the "smoky"/"ghostly" look, it has a "melted" one which suggests a hot place or maybe immersion in acid. It also looks a bit like slime, and finally at smaller sizes it has a glitch-esque appearance.
Any suggestions?
See more:
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1478881/new-dynascript-1
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/759655/zicrets_eye_fs
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/127132/the_new_alphabet
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/522360/alphane
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/371077/crwel
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1463459/joie-de-vivre
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/112834/brusselmans_1
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1550643/xandra-v2
Muz-TV 2000
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/298451/impossible_2
This is a clone of New AzbukaExtrapolation of the lettering found on a 1976 calender by Wim Crouwel.
I know this has already been done before, here is one that was done by Wilson Thomas. Who did a far more extensivey version that also includes extended Latin. Check his version out here: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/795855/kalendar_1976
Apart from a couple of glyphs that were done notably different and some other tiny differences in detais the two are pretty similar, but most certainly not copied.
I've noticed that most influential renditions of Wim Crouwel's fonts are incredibly literal in finding solutions to readability.
My influences come from several places and I plan to create "chamfered" and "rounded" iterations of this typeface.
Wim Crowel's "Neue Alphabet" is the primary driver, hence the font name. Crowel's Foundry specimen is reliant on a 5x5 grid with chamfered, 45 degree corners on glyphs.
For this "Classic", bitmap-styled design, I opt out of utilizing any non-rectilinear principle, but keep the 5x5 grid. Characters have been heavily modified with readability in display as the primary driver, and an invented symbol and number system is created to suit the new system.
I'd love to hear what people think of my take!
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