Fontstructions from FontStruct.com http://fontstruct.com Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:25:22 +0000
I created this type face on the theme 'Sharp' - I started by looking at sharp shapes and the obvious one was a triangle. This lead me to the Star of David and I looked at Daniel Libeskind's designs for the Jewish Museum in Berlin. I experimented with which letters fit into the religious symbol and it turned out that they all did! After making a 3D version of the font I decided to fill it with black to give more of a contrast and make it more legible! So here it is... The Star of Harriet 3D Black! Improvements welcomed!]]> https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/894895/black_star_3 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:33:50 +0000
Starting from the word 'squishy', I thought about how children play with very tactile things. If something has a tactile nature it will appeal to children to play with it and 'squish' it. From this I explored how sponges are very squeezable and photographed them in different ways. Alongside this thought process I was also sketching water in letter forms and loved how it appears to have a squishy texture in itself because it is fluid. Combining these ideas, I experimented with cutting sponges into letter forms, applying paint, squishing them and creating a typeface based on the marks they leave behind on a laminate table surface.]]> https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/884483/not_on_the_table_kids Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:45:32 +0000
This san serif, textured, bold font is inspired by the old cast iron type on train carts. When I discovered the old train carts down at the 'Bristol Harbour Railway' I was fascinated by these incredible forms. To create the structure of these characters I worked from one of the rubbings I took of a particularly nice iron plate and then scanned it into the computer to replicate the letters which where missing. I then printed this on to graph paper and transferred the bricks one by one to try and get the most accurate representation as possible.]]> https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/890211/having_a_cast Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:12:04 +0000