first time using composites and nudging

The purpose of this tutorial font is to show all possible brick combinations that can be used to make a composite, both vertically and horizontally, plus the 3 squares.  There are a maximum of 16 total bricks allowed (plus any 

spaces, see below), but a composite may contain as few as 2 bricks.  Please note that the square combinations of [2×2], [3×3] and [4×4] are duplicated in both the vertical and horizontal sets.

Empty spaces *also* count toward the maximum number of allowed bricks, but due to the numerous possible combinations, composites that include empty spaces are not included here.  Simply recognize that you CAN make composites with empty spaces in them, and when bordered by bricks, empty spaces WILL be included in your total composite count...

For example: in the first set of vertical composites [1×2] to [1×16], there are ~1.789 × 10^40 possible combinations that can be generated from the current brick sets (Core set = 241 bricks + Connect set = 86 bricks) plus empty spaces.

And for the simplest composites that can be made -- either [1×2] or [2×1] -- there are 106,929 unique composites (327×327) that can be made for each direction, vertical or horizontal.

It is HIGHLY recommended that you clone this font and use the outline feature to view the resulting composite structures: activate Expert Mode, then use the Keyboard Shortcut "O" to toggle the Outline Mode on and off.

Once a composite is created, don't forget that you may also ERASE bricks from it in a process called "padding." This can help you remove bricks along an edge or corner(s) of your composite.  The following links explain composites in greater detail:

Composite Bricks

Composite Bricks with Padding

As I recently mentioned to another FontStructor, composites are an EXTREMELY powerful tool when creating fonts.  However, the trick in creating them effectively is that you must not only consider HOW you want the resulting brick to look in the end, but also have the foresight to plan which bricks you may need to INCLUDE -- then subsequently ERASE -- from your composite brick to achieve you goal.

Good luck, and Happy FontStructing!  :^)

A ⅝×⅞ pixel typeface, an experiment mainly intended as a tool to annotate your fontstructions while building. And, of course, I couldn’t resist the punny name ;-)

Almost all of it is comprised in the Google Fonts Basic set.

Literally in the name, if you clone this font, you will see the letters/symbols just squished in a brick grid.

Started as just a clone of the invaluable resource that is djnippa’s All Composites saved in MY BRICKS.

I added some angles and rearranged them in a manner that works better with my way of fontstructing. Also added the relative widths of 1-square-wide slopes.

Perhaps it can be useful for someone else too.

WARNING: Many bricks are flipped and/or rotated, stack with caution.

I may make a 2×2 version sooner or later. In the meantime, please let me know if I missed anything.

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Another (large) set of brick composites.

There are most likely a number of duplicate bricks, not inside this collection itself, but when cross-referenced with todays earlier published collection there most likely are! Nonetheless I think they shouldn't be pulled from the project and should remain included in this collection as well.

All the bricks are saved in "MY BRICKS" pallet.

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The idea for this was to encourage new Fontstruct users into looking past the editors limitations and work-arounds by way of demonstrating some hands-on examples and ideas. I hope this might inspire people to build upon these ideas and make their own sets of composites for their fonts.

The collection isn't a one stop shop for custom composites, but rather just a random useful set of bricks. To peek inside the stacked composite layout and find out how it was build enable "Expert Mode" inside the editor and press "o" on the keyboard, this switches the editor to "Outline" view mode.

If you like to request specific composite configurations, have ideas for A future update or simply having a question, just let me know in the comment section.

Thats it for now, the project is cloneable, feel free to copy, (re-)use, abuse, expand and /-or redistribute, Enjoy!

Cheers

an attempt was made to create a didone typeface

weird 'a, c, e, f, g, k, r, s, t, v, w, x, y' and more because why not

inspired by droulers and the works of alex slobzheninov

wip, just wanted to publish this for now