COMIC NOUVEAU — Script inspired Art Nouveau style

This is my entry in the NumbersComp...

I'm sorry that it does not live up to my standard, but I simply don't have te time to be a contender this year. My entry is only because I know I would be mad with myself when I wouldn't submit at least "something.

Cheers, and good luck

Kerning in progress

WIP

See more:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2135426/kanako-1-31

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1922938/daily-double-1-2

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1682855/franklin-100-1

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1682773/generic-alien-script-5-latin-version

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2082965/guinivere-2

ARS NOUVEAUX - Art Nouveau inspired display typeface
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A personal digital reimagination of the lettering style by "Charles Rennie Mackintosh" (1868-1928), a pioneer of the "Glasgow School of Art" and so called "Arts & Crafts" movement.
His distinctive style of lettering has been seen many revisions, revivals, reimaginations and inspired designs alike over the years, and has evolved into a broad collection of available fonts.
This basic stylistic lettering concept from Mackintosh sort-of losely funcioned as the structural guiding principle for the creation of "Ars-Nouveaux".  
This FontStruction is an experimentation into creating similar flavored, but still unique letterforms within that same design framework.
 
First I started to layout the overall basic asymmetrical core geometry from a set of custom rectangles, half arc's and slants for each of the letters bare skeleton shape. Once I completed the full set of 36 glyphs [a/z, 0/9] These basic shaped were then further modified into more sophisticated finalized letterforms.

Caps-only, but with many alternates, accompanied by a set of ornate initials.

Hope you like it,

Cheers

SMEERKAAS - Decorative, squarish geometric and rounded Art Nouveau display type

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Modern typeface design influenced by Art Nouveau typography.

At its core it is a plain geometric style, and the real breakaway towards a more decorative 'Art Nouveau' inspired style starts with the elongated letterforms and their irregular descending elements. These give it a slight more interesting and dynamic flow that somewhat resembles a calligraphic or handmade look. Some of the descending elements in the uppercase string slightly differ in length and are more decorative, mimicking a dripping-like effect.

Unlike with a more traditional Art Nouveau lettering, the geometric backbone of this design keeps it quite futuristic looking, and actually provides a nice transitional blend of styles.

It works well at pretty much any point size, even at the very smallest, but keep in mind that the font wasn’t meant for large body style text, and is best used in short decorative setting.

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Cap height:            12 units
Body height:          17 units
Point size (Em):     18 units

― I will add extra glyph alternatives in a later update (posted: 09-14-'22)

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The name “SMEERKAAS” is dutch for “cheese spread”and it likely needs some further explanation on why this particularly odd name was chosen.

During the eighties we had this idiotic tv commercial that was aired on dutch
television for a cheese spread brand called “Goudkuipje”.

The plot for this commercial was a castle siege during medieval times, and it revolved around the phrase;
― "Ze smelten de kazen!"  which translates to; ― "They melt the cheeses!"

The plot further enfolds into the defending part that had run out of hot tar to pour onto their enemies, alternatively they started melting cheese, so that they would be able to pour that down the castle's wall.  

To better understand the link between my font and the tv-commercial you should watch the short commercial clip first.
Video Linkhere - youtube.com

But in a nutshell, the name was sort of choosen as a meme to suit the font's dripping-effect decorative theme.

I hope you like it so far...

Cheers

See more:

https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1178126/grammet

https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/804314/5six_shooter

https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1650888/johnathinguy

https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1594082/satana-1

https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1599681/marrada-1

https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/953456/furgatorio

Geometric Art Nouveau lettering inspired by as well as trying to mimic Uncial & medieval Insular script letters!

I love the look of this style. The name is self explanatory ;) if you know French.........

UC, numerals and some symbols have one line thicker than the others, LC only has the thinner lines. LC can be used on its own if even thickness of lines is desired but it is 3 px shorter than UC which will show clearly when using Basic Latin LC in combination with Hebrew, numerals, some symbols and some punctuation marks. Cyrillic and Hebrew added. Latin1 will come eventually ;)

Fancy Pantaloons is a typeface for when you are feeling a bit silly and pretentious without wanting to be too over-the-top. This typeface reminds me of old lettering on signs from the early 1900's. A combination of Victorian, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and a bit of Techno. 

The painting in the sampler is from Wikimedia:  the "Villa Petraia". I'll add more diacritics when I know which language(s) my friends want to see supported.

This is based on a beautiful copper-wood-stained glass door of an Art Nouveau building, letters Q,  O and Y were the first ones to echo the door's design. The other glyphs needed more thinking about and experimentig to maintain the style.

I still have to make diacritics used in my favourite languages. The LC will be like the UC because it makes typing easier. I'll work on it in December to get it finished for greeting cards. For the moment this stays All Rights Reserved.

Work in progress.

See more retro fonts:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/406454/decorum

http://nowa.cc/showthread.php?t=319627

I finally made it: the font based on the few letters that my favourite Biscuit carries.

I wanted such a font to add to my font collection of  unusual or art-craft-themed fonts (started when we had our first internet-capable computer in 1999). As I couldn't find this font I looked at Art Nouveau and Art Deco style fonts, also at furniture and wall papers of that period --- that kind of guided me when working on the 'missing' letters of this font which must have been designed before it could be chosen for the biscuits, and which I neither have found nor do I know its real name.

The UC are on biscuits. The LC are only the letters, on the level they have on  the biscuits to enable a kind of 'Majuscle' arrangement for texts.

Diacritics of more Latin are done, also useful symbols and punctuation. A crumb-free "+" is on the "%", a biscuit with surface dips is on the "(" and one with a flat surface is on the ")". The square brackets, when used without a space or letters, will make into a narrower biscuit, and are also used like round brackets.
 

I love the traditional French biscuits made on the French west coast where  Loire meets Atlantic.

The biscuits are thin, crunchy, light, not too large, not very sweet, melt on the tongue, and biscuits very like the original can be made/baked quite easily.

The traditional version has a limited range of letters, enough to write the name of town, manufacturer and product. I've been unsuccessful in finding an image of the font which contributed just a few letters to decorate these biscuits.

I spent some time looking at other type of the Victorian/Art Nouveau era until I had collected enough information to help me design the missing letters. I added the French diacritics, naturally. I think my additions look successful and the whole font looks quite Art Neauveau and in the style used originally.

The square brackets [ and ] make a biscuit shape when used 'blank'.

Bon appetit, enjoy your "Biscuit de l'Ouest".