1970s (Tag) | FontStruct

12 31972 Published: 22nd July, 2018
Last edited: 31st October, 2018
Created: 22nd July, 2018

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A variant of Kitchen Sink Rounded with filter sizes altered so that most letters are enclosed within golden rectangles. This is a squatter and friendlier take on the design - good for header text.

UC cloned to LC to make this easier to use...

This is a clone of Kitchen Sink Rounded

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2 01030 Published: 25th May, 2018
Last edited: 25th May, 2018
Created: 25th May, 2018

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5 1973 Published: 25th April, 2018
Last edited: 25th April, 2018
Created: 25th April, 2018

Fairchild Channel F - PROPORTIONAL (font edition)
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.

2018
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dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

This is a clone of VES 3x5

Pixel Optimized

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2 1982 Published: 25th April, 2018
Last edited: 25th April, 2018
Created: 25th April, 2018

Fairchild Channel F
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.

2018
0424
dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

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2 1972 Published: 25th April, 2018
Last edited: 25th April, 2018
Created: 25th April, 2018

Fairchild Channel F - PROPORTIONAL (font edition)
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.

2018
0424
dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

This is a clone of VES 4x5

Pixel Optimized

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3 1972 Published: 25th April, 2018
Last edited: 25th April, 2018
Created: 25th April, 2018

Fairchild Channel F
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.

2018
0424
dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

Monospaced

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3 1971 Published: 25th April, 2018
Last edited: 25th April, 2018
Created: 25th April, 2018

Fairchild Channel F - PROPORTIONAL (font edition)
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.

2018
0424
dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

This is a clone of VES 5x5

Pixel Optimized

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3 3971 Published: 25th April, 2018
Last edited: 25th April, 2018
Created: 25th April, 2018

Fairchild Channel F
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.

2018
0424
dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

Monospaced

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3 18965 Published: 17th November, 2017
Last edited: 23rd November, 2017
Created: 17th November, 2017

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 a clone

17 0982 Published: 13th October, 2017
Last edited: 13th October, 2017
Created: 13th October, 2017

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10 12490 Published: 9th October, 2017
Last edited: 25th October, 2017
Created: 7th July, 2017

Inspired by a commercial font advertised within the 'gallery' listing: FORE

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2 21860 Published: 18th September, 2017
Last edited: 15th May, 2018
Created: 12th September, 2017

A touch of abstraction ?

This is a clone

Sans Serif

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4 01100 Published: 4th July, 2017
Last edited: 15th September, 2017
Created: 28th June, 2017

PFont is a font based on the PBS 1971 font. Sorry if this isn't accurate to the said logo.

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Some fonts you just can’t FontStruct.
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4 1550 Published: 3rd June, 2017
Last edited: 6th June, 2017
Created: 2nd June, 2017

I was inspired by the FONTSTRUCT font :) and made this fun variation.

Stencil

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3 102744 Published: 19th March, 2017
Last edited: 29th March, 2017
Created: 17th March, 2017
This is a clone of Romaeo Stand

28 21100 Published: 10th March, 2017
Last edited: 10th March, 2017
Created: 10th March, 2017

Based off of the eggcrate marquees and scores on the 1975 CBS game show "The Magnificent Marble Machine".

Includes bullet symbol for blank spaces, and all block symbols from the Fast Money font.

This is a clone of Fast Money Three

Monospaced

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39 0980 Published: 15th January, 2016
Last edited: 15th January, 2016
Created: 15th January, 2016

Based off the eggcrate display that appeared in almost every game show in existence since the first episode of Password Plus aired in 1968.

Monospaced

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15 04830 Published: 18th November, 2015
Last edited: 18th November, 2015
Created: 15th November, 2015

The homage of 70s, 80s and 90s style text.

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59 11091 Published: 3rd September, 2015
Last edited: 3rd September, 2015
Created: 2nd September, 2015
A font based off the text found on the old Fast Money board on the television game show Family Feud, as seen from 1978 to 1984. Similar to Fast Money One, except digits 0, 3, 6, and 9 look different.

Monospaced

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69 01090 Published: 3rd September, 2015
Last edited: 3rd September, 2015
Created: 2nd September, 2015
A font based off the text found on the old Fast Money board on the television game show Family Feud, as seen from 1976 to 1978.

Monospaced

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33 1855 Published: 28th June, 2015
Last edited: 28th June, 2015
Created: 24th June, 2015
A font based upon a certain logo of a local transit agency.

Display

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9 48033 Published: 9th June, 2015
Last edited: 10th June, 2015
Created: 24th October, 2014
"Dot matrix" typeface based on the title sequence of the 1974 French educational series "Les Gammas! Les Gammas!" Character set: Basic Latin, More Latin, Extended Latin A + B, Even More Latin

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13 0353 Published: 30th October, 2014
Last edited: 30th October, 2014
Created: 30th October, 2014
Bold version of 'Operation Wang Chung'.

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12 0350 Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 30th October, 2014
Created: 24th October, 2014
Following the theme 'Decorative', I explored the aesthetics of 1970's wallpaper. This lead to finding lots of primary and secondary sources, which I narrowed down to two patterns. I noticed a mixture of curvilinear and geometric patterns. At this point, I realised that 'Decorative' does not necessarily mean curvy and swirly, so I decided to attempt geometic, but with a sort of curvilinear feel. My main struggle was creating a design that wouldn't require too much pixelation. Creating swirls of a large size just wasn’t achievable, without using a humongous grid to cancel out the pixelation. If I had known that Illustrator would display my font to the quality I was looking for, I would have used a slightly smaller grid so the inside pattern stood out more.

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540 748628 Published: 11th September, 2014
Last edited: 20th August, 2015
Created: 9th September, 2014

A logotype for retro-tech hardware inspired by Roc Mitchell's phototype LogoStyle/LogoText/LimitedView from the 1970's. Free for personal use only. Please contact for commercial use. Alternate characters list: @ - P * - J # - L < - A > - t ^ - e { - F } - R ~ - K © - g ® - D § - S ¤ - E ‹ - A › - A ¹ - A ¼ - 4 ½ - m ¾ - w ² - V ³ - V ª - a « - p » - q † - f

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7 21581 Published: 10th August, 2014
Last edited: 10th August, 2014
Created: 10th August, 2014
Clone of Kubetus with LC height and some widths adjusted for a smoother look. It has the MoreLatin letters but almost no symbols/punctuation for that and the normal Latin sets. I extended the character count just enough for a basic text. Although is is cloned from Kubetus I found mixing the two styles in a sentence gave an unsatisfactory texture, and a mix of both within one word was not only difficult to read but also unpleasant to look at.This is a clone of Kubetus

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10 12321 Published: 22nd October, 2013
Last edited: 22nd October, 2013
Created: 22nd October, 2013
Steambox. Improved.This is a clone of Steambox

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31 101046 Published: 23rd August, 2013
Last edited: 23rd August, 2013
Created: 19th August, 2013
LICENSE STIPULATIONS: ===================== 1. Not to be used for, in the execution of, during or in the planning of a crime. The original artist does not contribute to moral stupidity. 2. If shared, distributed, and/or redistributed, it should be as the original archive, with all the files available, complete and intact. 3. Not to be sold, ever, alone or as a part of a larger collection without the expressed written consent of all the authoring parties. 4. License Stipulation for this Font Concerning Modifications: Furthermore, the modification, adaptation, appending, alteration and enhancement of this font are allowed as long as the 2 joined DP Trademarks remain complete, unaltered and intact within this font as the 2 replacement characters in the Specials group letter set. HISTORY: ======== This is a pet project I have been mulling over for quite some time. This is how I used to design my posters in high school, with overlapping print. I think I got in this habit after checking out one of those "Keep On Truckin'" Posters. Of course, these were done in sort of a balloon style, and that's what I would do as well. As p2pnut points out, this was a Robert Crumb inspired font. Though it is different from what he did, it is my goal to eventually make one similar to his cartoon type. So it will probably take a couple tries for Me to get it just right, but I don't think this is a bad start. There are, of course, some special challenges associated with doing this kind of thing that the pen easily makes up for. I decided to use some faux shadowed edges to allow the underlying character to work with the overlap of the F, P & R. As I am sure you can tell, the first letter of every word should be capitalized. Then, all the other letters in that word should be lowercase unless there is some punctuation such as a hyphen or apostrophe that will break the letter connectors. So of course you would then have to capitalize the following letter and can then go from there with lowercase until the next word (or word break). This one will be share/use/modify Freeware that retains my Copyright as the original artist once I release it. August 21st, 2013: OK, Getting ready to release it as Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Freeware (maintaining My Copyright). Clone it, alter it, modify it, add to it, subtract from it. Come up with a better and-sign, etc... Added both parenthesis, the capital O with a slash through it, and a pretty horrific and-sign. Everything but my 2 logos (sitting in Specials as replacement characters) was intentionally done as an outline font (using the tools available in the FontStructor, of course). I think this one is actually quite usable for some 70's style posters and projects, though it remains a work in progress as I might add some more shadowing as a part of the theme. I've tried it out at very small and think it is still legible as a 12 pixel font, though I would really recomend keeping it big and then have fun coloring in the letters. Although not quite a full Basic Latin Letter Set, the main characters are there, plus I threw in a ©, TM, TEL, and SM. Added the Registered Trademark Symbol. Decided to take on the shading and made it a sort-of isometeric 3D font. August 22nd: Still finishing the shading. Alright, at first I kept everything very legible. But as I did, I lost that overlapping effect. But this font isn't meant for 12 pixels. It's meant for poster headlines. So I skinnied it up a bit, making the lowercase letters look more like they are resting underneath the previous letter. When you print the word "Little" (as an example) it is still legible, but a little cryptic at the same time. All the isometeric 3D shading is fauxed in. That is, I had to play with the shading in order to make this work. Sometimes the shading is at one angle, sometimes another. Sometimes the shading goes on too far (in the P, p F, f) just to give the next letter a place to connect to, a place to rest under. August 23rd: Renamed to "70's Style Overlap 3D" and edited the underneath shadow of the bottom plane of the top of the curl of the question mark. Updated my logos to reflect the style of the font. I think I'll stop messing with this one now unless someone sees something that needs to be addressed. Feel free to download, clone, modify, etc. Just be sure to give me credit for what I did. I would appreciate it if my logos remained in tact, there are all sorts of other places to put your logo as a contributing author/designer/artist. Thanks for your support!

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6 0673 Published: 14th August, 2013
Last edited: 3rd May, 2014
Created: 21st June, 2013

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30 1892 Published: 13th August, 2012
Last edited: 13th August, 2012
Created: 13th August, 2012
This is the BIOS Odyssey2/Videopac font recreated.

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53 02242 Published: 17th May, 2011
Last edited: 8th July, 2014
Created: 25th June, 2010
Here's a throwback and a tribute to the old scoreboards of Dodger Stadium and the Astrodome. The main alphabet, numbers, and some of the punctuation (the period, the apostrophe, and the T-shaped ampersand) are accurate to the original dot-matrix displays. However, much of the punctuation had to be improvised (there is no evidence of a question mark or comma being used on these scoreboards), as are the accented characters. Updated on April 9, 2014: I made a slight modification on the colon and semicolon after a recent search on photos of the old Astrodome's scoreboard.

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43 4995 Published: 30th December, 2010
Last edited: 7th January, 2011
Created: 25th December, 2010
Inspired by the "M" and horizontal "V" behind Yori in the 1982 movie "TRON" (0:58:08-0:58:54); shares similarities to Ray Larabie's "Para Aminobenzoic" font with just a hint of "Otto Mason SH"

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Fontstructions tagged with “1970s”

Kitchen Sink Gold

Channel 3

VES 3x5 P

VES 3x5

VES 4x5 P

VES 4x5

VES 5x5 P

VES 5x5

Jardin

Spec

Emmental

Revivage2

PFont

Hermann

Horizontalk

Romaeo Basel

MrblMchn

Eggs in a Box

BMC Sans

Fast Money Two

Fast Money One

Munificence

gammas

Operation Wang Chung Bold

Operation Wang Chung

AV05 Logotype

Kubetuffo

Steambox Remastered

70's Style Overlap 3D

fs mind

Videopac

60s Scoreboard

Data Man