Version 1.2

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I built diamonds sized according to the Fibonacci series, then made a design out of them. The design was then carved away and modified to make the glyphs you see here. I used the members 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8. These sizes proved most feasible to work with in this sort of arrangement.

I gave the terminals a flared appearance, which I think makes the glyphs' outlines look slightly Celtic.

It makes me think of beach sand and things found on the beach - shells, pretty rocks, and so on.

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This font is not to be confused with "Diamondized". :D

A single line is bent on itself to trace letterforms in 5x5.

The latest entry in my "IVO" series (Inline Versus Outline) in which inline and outline elements are split, merged, and altered to make them ambiguous and to allow new styles to emerge. They may look like maze fonts, but they have a different design methodology altogether.

Made via subtractive methods.

An alphabet for my conlang Úlsys.

5x5 font with a distorted, skewed, or glitched look about it. Plays well with actual glitch effects.

MORE GEMSCRIPT VARIATIONS

Experimental 12-segment display. This is my attempt at making an ultra-small segmented display suitable for printing on actual pixel art screens. As far as I know, this is the first fusion of Latin-style microfont and segmented display, although dpla has created many fonts that belong to one or both categories.

Initially I tried making this with 3px long segments, but the result looked almost exactly like Calculatrix 12. So I shrank it down to 5x5 to ensure it would take on its own look.

Of course, your pixel art style needs to be a pretty big one for this font to work well - I recommend a display area of 82*7px or more.

Experimental 37-segment display. Space pirates met crystalline aliens, their children made a segmented display, and this is it.

Now with lowercase!

See also: Apoplexy, Calculatrix.

5x5 sunburst design. I think it can be made more legible, but I'm not sure if it can be done without sacrificing style...

See also: Quadra Magic, Trafalmagus

A 5x5 font which has vertical bilateral symmetry, as if a mirror were covering half of it. Surprisingly readable!

Pixel demake of Xenolifer. Check Xenolifer's page for the origin story.

5 rows, 5 columns, 5 minutes. 5 is a fun number to work with, don't you think?

My 200th Fontstruction! :^)

This font, especially the "M", has been kicking around in my mind for years. I wanted a design that looked "kinda like a Metroid". Then, I tried to Fontstruct it. That brings us to the present.

(This font has nothing to do with the "Gods Will Be Watching" video game. I just think the name Xenolifer has the right ring to it.)

See also: Xenolifer Pixel

Another conlang/conscript from my own works. These are the Symbols of Starborn Lightness used by Asgari.

Asgari is an artificial sun orbiting Gara, an interstellar planet. It was built to use Starborn Lightness symbols as concept-units in order to electronically convey information to the Garai people about itself. So, these symbols were originally something like status indicators. Until C.Y. 1997, they could be seen on displays in the Celestial Telemetry Room at Magong Stack One in Upper Netazeca.

However, some Garai re-used the symbols to make constructed languages and ciphers. Monsaic Sun is unique among these in that it uses only the existing symbols, without any alteration. So this font can be used to write either language.

Appears in: Seven Candles Trilogy (2013)

A combinatorial conlang whose symbols find many uses.

This is the written language of early Azwelke people from Planet Ashr in my game Endless Sea of Stars. The symbols are called "Moon Runes" (both pejoratively and not), and each represents a cluster of phonemes. The language is similar to Katakana Japanese in that written words are sounded out. Proper nouns cannot be written in Moon Runes, and so such nouns rely on Old Azwelkeland Script to be committed to record.

The Wolves of Euphedora still use these symbols as part of their own hidden language, here called "RZ". Since this cipher invents no new characters, these Moon Runes can be used to write RZ as well.

These symbols are also still used in modern Ashrian astrology. Their designations below reflect this fact.

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- ESOSVM DESIGNATION -

TextData Block #013-ASHRJ, "Moon Runes KF-21 Original"

6!000001 "Hunter's Moon, New"

6!000002 "Hunter's Moon, First Quarter"

6!000003 "Hunter's Moon, Last Quarter"

6!000004 "Hunter's Moon, Waxing Gibbous"

6!000005 "Hunter's Moon, Waning Gibbous"

6!000006 "Hunter's Moon, Full"

6!000007 "Traveller's Moon, New" 

6!000008 "Traveller's Moon, First Quarter"

6!000009 "Traveller's Moon, Last Quarter"

6!000010 "Traveller's Moon, Waxing Gibbous"

6!000011 "Traveller's Moon, Waning Gibbous"

6!000012 "Traveller's Moon, Full"

6!000013 "Demarcator L"

6!000014 "Demarcator R"

6!000015 "Traveller's Moon Eclipses Ashrflame"

6!000016 "Hunter's Moon Eclipses Ashr"

6!000017 "Traveller's Moon Eclipses Ashr"

6!000018 "Hunter's Moon Eclipses Ashrflame"

6!000019 "Northern Double Eclipse"

6!000020 "Ashr Eclipses Hunter's Moon"

6!000021 "Ashr Eclipses Traveller's Moon"

6!000022 "Southern Double Eclipse"

Symbols used on board Marengi Mk.0 and later ships.

- SEMIOTIC STANDARD -

1. All symbols are to be sized at least 72cm high for physical signage/labels and at least APX2.2 for use on electronic displays.

2. All symbols are to be prominently placed, and placed so that posted personnel do not obscure them as they perform their duties.

3. All labels/signage will use a strongly photoreactive pigment of hexadecimal color #E43B44 for the outline. All electronic versions will use the aforementioned hex color for their outlines as well.

A minimalist Gemscript (or a corrupted one, depending on who you ask).

It has no relation to Pigpen Cipher, although a few glyphs do look like they're from that cipher. Feel free to use this fact to throw amateur cryptographers off for amusement.

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Experimental 49-segment display.

In making and studying other segmented displays, I noticed they tended to have strong-looking right angled lines but weak-looking diagonals. This is my attempt to make a design where both styles of lines look more appealing and join together more solidly.

From my game Trap Farmer Brer Brah.

The 21 symbols of the written language used by "Eshira" - terrestrial zooid colonies amalgamated from bacterial, viral, fungal, plant, and animal components. Eshira use this language by secreting an enzyme at the top of their rocky, stromatolite-like structures, dissolving the material to reveal white glyphs. These glyphs are extremely shallow engravings, and material is removed much slower than it is added through metabolism.

Each glyph represents an entire concept, question, plea, or rebuke. The glyph that appears depends on the eshira's environmental conditions and treatment. Intelligent creatures on Planet Fyromr read these glyphs to determine whether the fishing is good, what the weather will be like, and so on.

An eshira only etches one glyph at a time, so these symbols are only ever meant to appear one at a time. All the eshira in a particular place tend to produce the same glyph at low tide.

5x5 can be such a fun size to design with. :^)

Every glyph fits within the 5x5 grid so gamedevs can easily use this one in tiles, etc.

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Official MultiWorld² Kurrac's Cryphtography Font

Original size: 8.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Fictional aliens' attempt at the Latin alphabet. The sticks are somehow repelled from the open parts of the letters.

See also the tag "Gemscript" for other fonts relating to the media in which said fictional aliens appear.

Original size: 8.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Design rules:

- 11x11 grid

- Square bricks only

- 90° angles only

- 100% constant height

- Forms must fill grid space as much as possible without becoming unrecognizeable

Offical MultiWorld² - Kurrac's Cryptography Code - n2
This font only uses letters (A > G) and (a > g)

MARTIAN AMBASSADOR - a quirky alien looking typeface.

What first started as a tryout to make entire glyphs within a single composite brick quickly got out of hand. lol

Each glyph was designed on a 2x2 grid by way of composite stacking. Lowercase and superscript characters are single brick composites.

Viewed in the fontstruct preview many glyphs do not show clean edges because I heavily made use of composite bricks and stacks on a small grid. However, these irregularities are not really present in the actual TrueType Font.

This font is made for a special script I created. Readable characters appear, only if you write in the order Ccbv, where the syllables look like Cvc.
C means a uppercase consonant, c means a lowercase consonant, v means a vowel and b is binding ("(/){|}[\]"). Numbers are in base 12, with the digits being "0123456789.,", a comma is written like ' and a full stop like ''.
c=Palatal lateral approximant,
q=Uvular trill,
r=Alveloar trill,
w=Bilabial trill,
x=Velar nasal,
y=Mid central vowel.
<=uppercase glottal stop
>=lowercase glottal stop
If you follow the writing rules, you might be able to write a word, such as
H>}aVs{o = /havos/
or 
F>{oNt|ySt|yR>|aKt}y = /fonytsytrakyt/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HwjCrQHwI_nhp6PH5J2H3y2veBSlhdMpe5h17L0u0rU/edit?usp=sharing

This is the writing of Zhare & Zarta. It is called Nivicof or simply Zharian.

A certain alien language I had in mind for several years. It was intended to be slightly unreadable unless you actually tried to learn it.

An attempt to make an entire alphabet by modifying a single heptagon shape. (The "O" is the basis for almost all other glyphs.)

An alternate version of this was made in which I used different bricks to make the width of every line homogeneous. However, it was found that this robbed the font of much of its character. Additionally, the visual effect presented by the increased line width actually made the font less even-looking than it is now. This proved true with and without antialiasing.

Based on square glyphs from the past and a few modern styles of eastern scripts.

A visually pleasing alternative alphabet.  Simply start each word you type in UPPER CASE and finish each word with a period (.)  Looks great as an Arabesque, Far-East cipher.

@janmittchou

Cryptographic Font utilizing a proprietary binary matrix algorithm designed by Joshua Michael Conci © 2017

This font and the symbols therein are direct results of the binary code for the letters, numbers, and special characters acting as seeds for a matrix code.

Every character is unique even if they "appear" similar. The top and bottom horizontal lines indicate the binary code for the associated letter. Black squares are 1 and spaces are 0.