Version 0.5

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A font made for a LuneKnight, a Terraria mod by yours truly. It gets its name because parts of it remind me of halberd, partisan, and/or axe heads. I designed this to have the vaguely authoritation look of a Didone as well as a borderline-gaudy look that prevents this from being taken too seriously. These changes lent some much-needed character to the prototypical Didone from which this design evolved. The uppercase letters are more heavily ornamented, as if to suggest that they are letters from an illuminated manuscript.

The main texture is a diamond pattern inspired by vent holes in medieval armor. These were often made with a square punch, and help the font look more handmade. Actually, most of the quirks this font possesses are present to help present a handmade look.

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Notes

The wider letters are incised, which seems to lessen their perceived wideness by breaking up the shapes. For me this effect lent a more natural flow to the reading.

The ornamentation rules are complicated and factor in lettershapes, English letter frequency, and the existing design parameters. One thing I can concisely explain is that glyphs which normally look fairly plain are ornamented to such an extent that they make others look plain instead (CGJLT1 among others).

Small-grid doodle which creates new combinatorial forms.

I considered this design rather rough and unappealing until I gave it negative spacing. This caused the forms to merge together in unpredictable and interesting ways. The lesson here is that sometimes the metrics, not the aesthetics, are what "make" or "save" a design.

All characters that you can type on the Audiovox (Toshiba) CDM-9500 in 11px size.

All characters that you can type on the Toshiba CDM-9900/9950/VM4050 in the "Medium" font style.

A cipher/code used by the Kibble Cabal, a mostly animal-based team of misfits and food thieves in the game Trap Farmer Brer Brah. This code is very similar in application to the "Hobo Code" from the United States in the late 1800s. It makes a pretty good cipher, as well!

Original size: 8pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Version 1.1

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Welcome to Orwellian Barcode Prison, antithesis of Chicken Wire. The only thing to do here is squint.

A random console font.
It has characters to draw 16-segment displays, boxes, and text.
NOTE: When drawing with the weird characters you will need to separate sections with a space.

Font made for the logo of a particular project/video game of mine.

Some kerning pairs are imperfect... I can only bring them 10 bricks closer together, so a bit of space remains...

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Current Version: 1.9

See also:Dynablaze

Bookish pixel font designed for general reading. Made for use in my own future web designs.

149 custom bricks for your perusal! Only custom bricks are in the palette, so you can clone this and easily start drawing right away.

I'll definitely be adding more with time. I love this sort of experimentation!

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