What began nearly 8 years ago as an experiment in multi-stage, multi-resolution pixel serif type drafting (starting smallish then manually upscaling x4), took on the robust character you see here after countless edits and some tricky lessons learned along the way.
The initial weight was on the light side (cloned privately for posterity), so I took a leap into this bookish weight by fattening each glyph copy-pasted 1 pixel shifted both up and to the right. A rudimentary technique, by no means novel, yet almost wholly effective. I saw fit from here to only make a handful of corrections, keeping the slightly rounded and slanted serif shape that resulted as well as the subtle reenforcing of a pen-nib construction.
More intriguing is the 1-bit “anti-aliasing” scheme I found myself progressively guided toward while finding the lines of these curves developing the initial light weight. Implied diagonals and said curves – as well as refinement of contrast – are substantially more granular and specific than had I taken a black-and-white posterized, or stairstepped approach.
At half-resolution, the resulting smoothness is acceptible. This type of hinting will be useful in developing a substitution rule set consisting of subpixel slanted or curved bricks to produce a “vectorized” version.
Indeed, such a process could be purely automated by a proficient developer or properly trained neural network (this would be a really interesting future feature for fontstruct pro – rather than hinting a font after painstaking vector construction, why not reverse the process by way of en vogue ai-assisted upscaling?).
Basic accented charaters and numerals are being added as I churn through the extended character set...
This font was inspired by the works of Christophe Szpajdel (Lord of the Logos, 2010, Die Gestalten Verlag), as well as by the film trilogy and the following game titles (e.g. Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 2014) based on Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Given the game theme, and the 48 bricks vertical limit, I thought more or less around pixel art, or pixel fonts. This is my endeavour to make a spiky blackletter in Szpajdel's black metal style that evokes the terror of Mordor at pixel level. This font has been extensively tested for best kerning, yet some issues might have remained unresolved.
This is a cloneUPDATE 07 Oct 17: In February something happened to the font, re-arranging every single brick to somewhere else. I just now got around to fixing it.
Parentheses can be used as caps for the beginnings and ends of sentences.
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/333234/periculum
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/blackletra/ofelia-std/
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1646721/stf-lullo-stitch
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/685591/advancer_lite_1
https://www.behance.net/gallery/27010917/Pobeda
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/206416/pinball_blizzard
https://creativemarket.com/Etewut/1710681-Laser-Dots
https://etc-nyc.com/project/brooklyn-dot-font/
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/88351/fs_retro_electro
Granenyi Stakan!
Stylising 19th-century grotesque.
See more: Differentura, Steinbeck (Roman Gornitskyi)
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/blackletra/noka/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/type-type/tt-firs/
LilienthalGrotesk (Vera Evstafeva)
(http://vdnh.ru/en/
https://daily.afisha.ru/archive/gorod/changes/oni-teplye-i-nezlye-dizaynery-masterskoy-barbanelya-o-novyh-simvolah-vdnh/)
http://vllg.com/klim/founders-grotesk#panel=poster
Helvetica World
http://www.dafont.com/k22-spotty-face.font
To read: http://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/1/
This is a clone of Antidot SansThis is the Character Set used in Singapore's elevators in HDB estates that are installed under Mitsubishi, Fujitec (older one before they transitioned to the Eleva 2 / Eleva 4 design*), ULift, 9G, Sigma, Dongyang. Otis, iFE, EM (older one before they transitioned to the Eleva 3 design) and Express (GEC). New character set using Eleva Design Language from 2022.
Eleva 1 Origin has been discontinued.
Other variants of 3, 4, 5, 6, B, F, M, V, W, ↑, and ↓, are found here.
Unless HDB can swoon us with new designs, it's gonna stay this way.
* except those installed under Fujitec that used this font instead). Disappointing that they did not treat the Eleva 2 Origin font quite well.
If anyone in Singapore has the legal capacity to coax me to take it down, I will refuse. They have no right to ask me to take it down just because they think that for me copying their intellectual property is illegal.
Downloading of font is disabled because of those kaypoh Singaporeans because they think that this is their intellectual property.
Eleva Font Family © Vienna Binders, Aaron Wolff. All rights reserved.
The FontStructions that are created and/or made available on this Site are the copyrighted work, of the respective creator.
This is the Character Set used in Singapore's elevators in HDB estates, currently installed under EM Elevators and iFE Elevators. This character set was formerly installed on certain Mitsubishi, Sigma, and LG elevators as well. Other variants of 3, 4, 5, 6, B, M, P, R, ↑, and ↓, are found here, and are used in its new generation character set(s), but the original character sets will be preserved instead, but no new variants will be made, unlike Eleva 2. Oh and whoever did the weird letter 'R', guess what? That's a weird design I've never ever seen, and it's the worst ever.
Unless HDB can swoon us with new designs, it's gonna stay this way.
If anyone in Singapore has the legal capacity to coax me to take it down, I will refuse. They have no right to ask me to take it down just because they think that for me copying their intellectual property is illegal.
Downloading of font is disabled because of those kaypoh Singaporeans because they think that this is their intellectual property.
Eleva Font Family © Vienna Binders, Aaron Wolff. All rights reserved.
The FontStructions that are created and/or made available on this Site are the copyrighted work, of the respective creator.
This is a clone of Eleva 1 ProPRESS THE “PIXEL” BUTTON ABOVE FOR THE BEST RESULTS.
WELL, IF I WASN’T CRAZY BEFORE, I DEFINITELY AM NOW.
I WOULDN’T RECOMMEND DOWNLOADING THIS FONT. IT WOULD PROBABLY CRASH YOUR COMPUTER OR SOMETHING.
CLASSES
• “A”:AMBASSADOR CLASS
• “B”: OBERTH CLASS
• “C”: CONSTELLATION CLASS
• “D”: DEFIANT CLASS — U.S.S. DEFIANT (STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE)
• “E”: EXCELSIOR CLASS
• “F”: FREEDOM CLASS
• “G”: GALAXY CLASS — U.S.S. ENTERPRISE D (STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION)
• “H”: GALOR CLASS CARDASSIAN WARSHIP
• “I”: INTREPID CLASS — U.S.S. VOYAGER (STAR TREK: VOYAGER)
• “J”: TYPE VI SHUTTLECRAFT
• “K”: TYPE VII SHUTTLECRAFT
• “L”: LUNA CLASS
• “M”: MIRANDA CLASS
• “N”: NEBULA CLASS
• “O”: OLYMPIC CLASS
• “P”: PROMETHEUS CLASS
• “Q”: K'VORT CLASS KLINGON BIRD OF PREY
• “R”: SOVEREIGN CLASS
• “S”: SOYUZ CLASS
• “T”: TYPE XV SHUTTLECRAFT
• “U”: DANUBE CLASS
• “V”: VOYAGER’S AEROSHUTTLE
• “W”: D'DERIDEX CLASS ROMULAN WARBIRD
• “X”: NOVA CLASS
• “Y”: BORG CUBE
• “Z”: NEW ORLEANS CLASS
• SPACE: ACTUAL SPACE