Insular (Tag) | FontStruct

34 17957 Published: 14th October, 2018
Last edited: 15th October, 2018
Created: 14th October, 2018

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

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2 0280 Published: 19th August, 2018
Last edited: 19th August, 2018
Created: 19th August, 2018

Another attempt at alien Latin. It's made to have an organic, almost writhing look, but also to be easily written with a brush or spray paint.

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0 1291 Published: 24th July, 2018
Last edited: 24th July, 2018
Created: 24th July, 2018

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Original size: 5.25px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

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1 1411 Published: 22nd July, 2018
Last edited: 22nd July, 2018
Created: 22nd July, 2018

I started with an omega symbol, then bent and twisted it many times. This is the result. Is Weirdo English my new calling?

Original size: 5.25px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

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5 1390 Published: 21st July, 2018
Last edited: 21st July, 2018
Created: 21st July, 2018

A continuation of ideas present in Technokratz, with some imagination added for good measure!

This creates new ambigrams and ambiguous words. Here are a few that I found:

AND = ROD

FACE = FREE

FONT = FROM

FOX = HOT

FREE = TREE

INTO = TOMB

LAY = EAT

PHYSICS = EXISTES

SOLD = SAID

TECH = MECH/MEEK/NECK

THE = AXE

TOXIC = MOXIE

VICTORINOX = LAWSUIT (hah, just kidding)

WATER = TAMER

YEATS = TEAMS

Since I like this ambiguity so much, I will keep working to make letters resemble other letters even more! The real trick is finding these synergies while still preserving enough variability in forms that things can still be read flawlessly.

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4 2291 Published: 20th July, 2018
Last edited: 20th July, 2018
Created: 20th July, 2018

Embellished/pattern-filled Technokratz:

"A futuristic attempt at 'insular' English. The main design rule was 'make it bend where it shouldn't'. This could symbolize some cyber-dystopia-lord-dude's desire to stop at nothing, or something."

This design inserts a dot into every empty grid square. Off-grid empty squares don't count - there must be an utterly empty space of 1 square's size ON the grid. The dotting further imparts a unique identity to every letter.

Shall I continue this one? Let me know. :D

This is a clone of Technokratz

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2 3290 Published: 19th July, 2018
Last edited: 20th July, 2018
Created: 19th July, 2018

A futuristic attempt at "insular" English. The main design rule was "make it bend where it shouldn't". This could symbolize some cyber-dystopia-lord-dude's desire to stop at nothing, or something.

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54 1310019 Published: 8th July, 2018
Last edited: 15th December, 2018
Created: 26th February, 2018

A decorative insular display font.

This is still a work in progress. I'm pushing the new bricks, stacking and nudging to the limit to create some nice flowing shapes. This is also a great opportunity to get working with some good kerning. Once I have the basic character set, this is going to be submitted to Google Fonts for approval.

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34 1213413 Published: 31st May, 2014
Last edited: 21st August, 2014
Created: 14th May, 2014

This is the second published gaelic font on FS, I think.

Uncial

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107 23139529 Published: 31st May, 2014
Last edited: 12th April, 2018
Created: 31st May, 2014
I thought the round celtic/gaelic/insular forms of the latin letters would lend themselves well to a typewriter-esque font. Only later did I google it to find that Michael Everson is the king of this area. Now I should really get back to my exam paper.

Uncial

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8 3522 Published: 15th September, 2012
Last edited: 15th September, 2012
Created: 12th August, 2012
A design based off of the Old English Alphabet. Complete with letters used in Anglo-Saxon. Q represents "Ash (ae)". J and K represent "Thorn (th)" and "Eth (th)" respectively. Z represents the alternate forms of "s" used in older manuscripts. Capital Z is the "long s" and lowercase z is the "insular s". There is no V, however, F was used for the sound of V. W and G are replaced with "Wynn" and "Yogh" respectively. I created the letters with the simplest squares i could use with the smallest grid, so as to keep the file small in size and easy to load up.

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12 03801 Published: 17th November, 2011
Last edited: 20th January, 2012
Created: 17th November, 2011
A low resolution, basic Latin and Cyrillic font with Wynn for W, Yogh for Y, Et for &, Insular G and D, and an old British A.

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1496 13569397 Published: 4th July, 2011
Last edited: 22nd May, 2012
Created: 4th July, 2011
A work in progressThis is a clone

Uncial

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25 1010010 Published: 4th March, 2011
Last edited: 10th March, 2011
Created: 1st March, 2011
Insular script with uncial outline letters as an upper case.This is a clone of frumſceaft rune

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21 01005 Published: 27th February, 2011
Last edited: 1st December, 2011
Created: 26th February, 2011
Font for Anglosaxon taking its name from the title of Cædmon's hymn. There are no upper case in insular scripts so Anglo Saxon runes have been substituted.

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154 138967 Published: 29th May, 2010
Last edited: 15th November, 2010
Created: 15th April, 2010
Celtic knotwork in an insular style. Based on lettering from the Book of Kells. Some alternates in the lower case, some ligatures in the "More Latin" set, and a "construction kit" on ~ so you can create your own knotty fonts :-) UPDATE June 3 2010: Removed some artefacts from the 'E' and 'e'. Please re-download.This is a clone

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15 4899 Published: 5th May, 2010
Last edited: 21st May, 2010
Created: 30th April, 2010
A pixel insular, based partially on the script in the Book of Kells. Would work well as the GUI font for an old-school fantasy game. The upper case contains the regular old-timey forms; the lower case, more modern/readable forms for today's audience. This is the basis for a much more exciting font, to be released soon :-) (This is a work in progress)This is a clone of Knots

Uncial

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140 71267 Published: 29th September, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 29th September, 2008
Old celtic style font. Now with some diacritics and variants. Most of the vowels can have an acute over them, and many of the consonants can have dots. The dots make them be pronounced as if they were followed by an H, e.g. Th, Sh. Ë is a variant of R, Ì is a variant of S and Î is a variant of S with a dot above. Ï is the Irish symbol for "agus" or "and".

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7 01350 Published: 16th December, 2018
Last edited: 13th January, 2013
Created: 10th December, 2012
*Still in progress!* A pixely-medievaly sorta font. I noticed that there were tons of 8-bit videogame-style fonts, and lots of old english fonts; so I thought, "I'm gonna combine them and see how it ends out!" Constructive criticism is appreciated; let me know if anything looks wrong or too weird! (I know, the capital X looks really weird, I just couldn't get it to work for some reason.) (Avádicus is just a fantasy name I made up. It sounds to me like the name of a mighty kingdom in an RPG.) A kinda similar font is Pixular, by LexKominek.

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Fontstructions tagged with “Insular”

STF_CELTIC NOUVEAU

Xenologist

Tangible Zen

Neue Helvetica®

Milocinia

Technowizard

Technokrazy

Technokratz

Dropcap

fs gaelpix

Insular Typewriter

Anglo-Saxon-small

Skuuares

RMWL Uncialic

frumſceaft uncial

frumſceaft rune

Knots

Pixular

Celtic style

Avádicus