Paradoxy Effect, without the Effect. Quite a drastic transformation!
This is a clone of Paradoxy EffectA banded version of Jungle High. Lots of brickswapping and manual adjustments were needed to make it!
This is a clone of Jungle HighA more patterned version of Jungle High. This will be used for the title screen text.
It also gives me a bit of a "casino" feeling with its diamond pattern and ornate appearance.
This is a clone of Jungle HighAn alternate take on Eyeball Kids which has more expressive eyes.
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Making this has given me an idea for an ASCII Roguelike tileset wherein lowercase letters represent juvenile creatures and uppercase letters represent adult ones.
This is a clone of Eyeball KidsAlternate plain version of Funkytown Throwdown. The spacing has been reworked for this one.
This is a clone of Funkytown ThrowdownThe final Laconica?
This idea emerged while making Laconica Skeleton, so I decided to carry it out. The design reminds me of blueprints and floor plans, thus the name.
This is a clone of Laconica SkeletonVersion 1.1: Improved gy&Ѐ.
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A greatly condensed Modron March.
This is a clone of Modron MarchI took "Hypnoverse" and applied handwriting techniques to it. These figures are more like those I draw when I write with a pen, though still very distinct from my actual handwriting due to the low resolution.
This looks very natural to me, moreso than any other 4x5 design I've seen. It needs to be 2x original size or larger for the best effect, though, since its forms aren't nearly as open as the others. This may not be a problem for you... maybe I've just been staring at it too long...
At this point, I am confident that none of these glyphs can be improved further. The best they can do is change to suit someone else's preferences. Would you draw a particular glyph differently? If so, please show your ideas. I have gone over every 4x5 glyph several dozen times through as many designs, and think I have found the best solution for each - but maybe I'm wrong! I am especially interested in solutions for m and w; I have tried compressing and truncating them to be 4-wide before, but never successfully got anything that LOOKED like an m or w.
This is a clone of HypnoverseAn experimental take on Laconica with Celtic knotwork. I'm not sure how to balance it better than this... any ideas? I'll do all the glyphs once I have a complete set of solutions for them.
This is a clone of LaconicaAn alternate, more asymmetrical & stylized Madmouse.
This could be considered an avantgarde spurless or mixed-spur design. Some letters have spurs and some don't. This is entirely dependent on the diagonal lines, which were placed so that they would slant up and to the right. "s27" are obvious exceptions.
This is a clone of MadmouseA fusion of Junglira and Quartzthrone Harlequin. The result reminds me of railroad tracks, 35mm film, barberpoles, cactus heartwood, orb-weaver spider legs, and more!
Some symbols and diacritics are left untouched, either for legibility's sake or because they happened to fall on one of the non-shaded rows.
Structurally, this is Junglira, although I did round a lot of corners that were squared in the original.
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See also:Navajo Deco
This is a clone of JungliraA slightly large, bookish chatfont made for a friend. Bold version.
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Original size: 8.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of MotormouthSometimes the smallest and simplest change produces the most drastic results.
This is a clone of QuartzthroneSolid Quartzthrone. Somehow, this looks more "cartoonish" than the others.
This is a clone of QuartzthroneA variant of Bulwarx Pixel which uses halftones to save 64% more ink than the original.
The second halftone is 60*60 (3600px) within a 100*100 (10000px) canvas. So, this halftone fills only 36% of the grid square, and yet it remains solid-looking even at 2x Original size. I think this is therefore the best single halftone on FS for actual printing purposes. Of course, modern printers are likely to be accurate enough to print this with the grid squares showing...
This is a clone of Bulwarx PixelA pixel demake of Bulwarx. The original design was so close to being Pixel Optimized that I decided to go ahead and make a version that actually is.
I decided to make this version the same size as the original in order to preserve the ratios. This means that the font is very similar at small sizes, and sacrifices only a few corners/angles in exchange for superb crispness.
The original diacritics had to be reworked, as well... this makes the font effectively taller than original Bulwarx, but it couldn't be helped.
This is a clone of BulwarxA Quartzthrone variant that looks like fancy upholstered furniture (or cactus heartwood).
This is a clone of QuartzthroneMore multiline Romanesque doodle thing.
This is a clone of QuartzthroneVersion 1.1
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An alternate take of Diamond Eyes with circles replacing the 2 smallest diamonds. No brickswapping used - many diamonds shared bricks so I had to place the circles by hand. This permutation introduces more texture, solidity, and complexity to the original. Hope ya like it!
This is a clone of Diamond EyesA work in progress. I'm designing this years after I designed the original non-fancy version. This font will probably be used for chapter names and other short bits of text as opposed to being used for the text of the book itself.
I want this to convey a whimsical and gaudy vibe - think Agatha Christie rhythmically plunging her head down into a giant bowl of Parma Violets to the tune of "Veterans Day Poppy" by Captain Beefheart. Actually, don't think that. My books are about fluorescent pink and purple poodles using psionics to solve crimes, not WEIRD CRAP.
This is a clone of Poodle Anthology