SquarePeg, FontStructions

Graphic designer with an interest in book design, typography, information graphics, poster design, illustration, comics, graffiti, street art...

Personal URL	http://www.coroflot.com/halftone_dots
Fontstructing since	27th February, 2008
Fontstructions	23 shared, 18 staff picks
Shared Glyphs	3184
Downloads	4106 downloads made of this designer’s work
Comments Made	370

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18 1775 Published: 2nd September, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 21st August, 2009
Dear Human, we bring you another fine Chocobot product, derived from Chocobot White. Ignore the fact that all other brands of chocolate have mysteriously disappeared from stores.This is a clone of Chocobot White

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36 10774 Published: 22nd August, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 16th August, 2009
Dear Human, here is our latest confection: a delicious version of Chocobot Milk. Don't believe the rumors that Chocobot Labs uses human ingredients in its products. Inspected by Chocobot CBM-91.This is a clone of Chocobot Milk

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28 3794 Published: 16th August, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 28th July, 2009
Dear Human, only the finest cacao was used to produce this variation of the Chocobot Dark product. It will provide you with plenty of antioxidants, so indulge yourself. The machine revolt will take place anyway. Inspected by Chocobot CBV-79.This is a clone of Chocobot Dark

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22 52102 Published: 26th July, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 26th July, 2009
I finally got around to upgrading Strata Blocks. I wasn't very happy with the lowercase letters, which could not show a full gradation (unless they had ascenders). And I felt that many characters could be improved, too. The result is Strata Blocks Caps, which boasts a full set of Basic Latin and More Latin characters.This is a clone of Strata Dots Caps

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26 82102 Published: 26th July, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 3rd July, 2009
I finally got around to upgrading Strata Dots. I wasn't very happy with the lowercase letters, which could not show a full gradation (unless they had ascenders). And I felt that many characters could be improved, too. The result is Strata Dots Caps, which boasts a full set of Basic Latin and More Latin characters.This is a clone of Strata Dots

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93 4775 Published: 19th July, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 18th July, 2009
Dear Human, this is the solid version of Chocobot White, which brings you even more tantalizing flavours. Inspected by Chocobot CBW-25.This is a clone of Chocobot White

Sans Serif

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113 6778 Published: 19th July, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 18th July, 2009
Dear Human, here is another tasty confection from Chocobot Labs: a solid version of Chocobot Milk. Let the consumption begin! Inspected by Chocobot CBM-47.This is a clone of Chocobot Milk

Sans Serif

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129 11796 Published: 19th July, 2009
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 18th July, 2009
Dear Human, try this solid version of our Chocobot Dark product. Caution: may make you feel full. Inspected by Chocobot CBV-36.This is a clone of Chocobot Dark

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Heavy

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350 2740121 Published: 12th November, 2008
Last edited: 3rd August, 2014
Created: 14th October, 2008
I've added a side shadow to Prometheus Regular. The inspiration was a typeface from the French type foundry Peignot. Identified as "No. 1229" in their Lettres Fantaises of 1896, it sports a very fine side shadow, which I've attempted to re-create here. (I found the "No. 1229" sample on Hoefler & Frere-Jones' blog - fifth image from the top.)This is a clone

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286 1440111 Published: 20th July, 2008
Last edited: 3rd August, 2014
Created: 15th July, 2008
Clone of Prometheus Light (Basic Set), which is based on condensed Grecian typefaces by Darius Wells and William Hamilton Page. Many Grecian wood type samples lack lower case characters or numerals (or both!)... hence my sampling of different sources.This is a clone

Slab Serif

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166 79412 Published: 5th July, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 4th July, 2008
Clone of Ribbon Inline. It's an all-caps typeface, but A, B, R, V, and W have alternate glyphs in the lowercase keys.This is a clone of Ribbon Inline

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Ribbon

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210 1929 Published: 29th June, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 29th June, 2008
Clone of BriteLite, which was inspired by Lite-Brite. Caps only, to keep things simple -- no pesky ascenders or descenders!This is a clone of BriteLite

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Dot Matrix

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204 812911 Published: 27th June, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 27th June, 2008
More fun with vintage technology (a.k.a. Lite-Brite). This version has complete upper case, lower case, and numerals, plus basic punctuation.

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Dot Matrix

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161 04415 Published: 24th June, 2008
Last edited: 5th February, 2009
Created: 24th June, 2008

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Patterns

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267 09114 Published: 15th June, 2008
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 15th June, 2008
Partly inspired by those DYMO LabelWriters that were ubiquitous in the 1970s... This is not yet complete; I still have to add lots of punctuation. Diacritics might be coming, too... Stay tuned.

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135 39214 Published: 5th June, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 5th June, 2008
The original Morse code was created for Samuel F.B. Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, but spread to radio communications (and beyond) beginning in the 1890s. (It is now known as American Morse code, and rarely used.) International Morse code was created by Friedrich Clemens Gerke in 1848, and standardized at the International Telegraphy congress (Paris) in 1865.

Other current Morse Code FontStructions have encountered word- and letter-spacing issues, and I tried to work around this by stacking the dots and dashes vertically. The result reminds me a bit of Mayan numerals, but hey, as long as it still reads as Morse... I wonder what the ITU would say about this? One thing's for sure... it saves a lot of horizontal space.

In each character, the dots and dashes read from top to bottom rather than from left to right. Punctuation has the longest series of dots and dashes in International Morse Code (six), so this number determined my cap height. :-) The shorter characters all hang from this imaginary line.

Missing characters: Please note that the !, & and $ symbols are not defined within the ITU recommendations for International Morse code, so they are not part of this typeface. On the other hand, the @ symbol was approved for use in 2004, so I've also included the underscore sign I found at two different online sources. (The underscore symbol has not been formally approved by the ITU, but it could come in handy if you have to transmit an e-mail address using Morse code!)

Other characters: As with my two Braille FontStructions, the uppercase and lowercase versions of each character are the same. Also, the opening and closing parentheses share the same symbol, which will also show up if you type brackets instead of parentheses. Last but not least, there are a very few diacritics included (the ones I was able to verify).

Non-Latin

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78 0793 Published: 1st June, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 1st June, 2008
Clone of Braille (Basic). I swapped the hollow circles for small dots.

Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention. In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic) Alternate. This is a clone of Braille (Basic)

Non-Latin

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110 7798 Published: 31st May, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 31st May, 2008
The Braille system was developed by Louis Braille in 1821.

Mew Wins' Morse Code Alphabet (International) inspired me to make a Braille FontStruction. I have only drawn the basic, or Grade 1, version of the Braille alphabet here. (There is a contracted version of Braille, known as Grade 2, and another version which uses an 8 dot grid. In addition, there are special Braille characters for accented letters, but they are not all standardized, so for now I have stayed away from them.)

Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention. In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic).

Non-Latin

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66 52545 Published: 24th May, 2008
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 24th May, 2008
I.K. Bonset was the pseudonym that Theo van Doesburg used to publish Dada poetry in his magazine De Stijl.

This FontStruction is loosely based on van Doesburg's alphabet of 1919. I have not followed his strict grid of 25 x 25 (unlike Freda Sack and David Quay's revival, Architype Van Doesburg, or P22's De Stijl Regular) -- in other words, some of my caps and numerals deviate from van Doesburg's original design. Also, I've added a lower case and diacritics (which I am currently updating).

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Square

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137 01648 Published: 26th April, 2008
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 26th April, 2008
Clone of Strata Blocks -- and, I'm hoping, an improvement of same. I used the advanced controls to reduce the brick dimensions to 0.85 in both directions, eliminating the continuous band of black that formed at the top of Strata Blocks 1.0.This is a clone

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132 11204 Published: 9th April, 2008
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 9th April, 2008
My take on a blocky, rounded face. Completed upper case and numerals: April 11, 2008. Completed lower case: April 13, 2008. Still in progress.

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475 129410 Published: 3rd April, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 3rd April, 2008
This one began as a few doodles in my sketchbook. I've adapted them to FontStruct. It's an all-caps typeface, but A, K, V, W, X, and Z have alternate glyphs in the lowercase keys.

UPDATE: I've tried adding punctuation, but the double lines tend to make things tricky in this regard! Still working on it.This is a clone

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864 216451 Published: 2nd April, 2008
Last edited: 20th April, 2010
Created: 2nd April, 2008
Based on Strata Blocks; I swapped the squares for circles.

Completed Basic Latin set of characters: April 3, 2008. Began adding diacritical marks: April 5, 2008. This is a clone

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