Decay (Tag) | FontStruct

14 0263 Published: 12th November, 2019
Last edited: 11th November, 2019
Created: 20th October, 2019

(Due to the size of the letters, looks a lot better zoomed in!)

This font was created around the theme of 'filthy' and 'decay'. The final design was inspired by fungus spores and bacteria at a microscopic level. I took inspiration from existing fonts -Norway Round- and -Cubano-.

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16 0315 Published: 11th December, 2017
Last edited: 10th December, 2017
Created: 24th October, 2017

A type face visually represeting Urban decay on buildings. I have tried to capture the image of the deconstruction of concrete.

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21 2413 Published: 2nd November, 2017
Last edited: 5th November, 2017
Created: 9th October, 2017

First there is a flourish, in which the beauty of progression is materialised through growth. Followed by distortion and an imminent spoil - I was inspired by this cyclic process.

Angles cant quite define this typeface, so 'Spoiler' as a decorative font chooses to ignore certain standardisation rules; each letter tries to recoil back into what came before.

The lettering, as I discovered through paper manipulation and layering, works organically off screen, for collage and mixed media poster design.

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31 1266 Published: 16th November, 2016
Last edited: 16th November, 2016
Created: 13th November, 2016

Based on the theme of malnutrition, this font uses chicken bones to structure its letter forms. The chicken bones represent the cycle of malnutrition that continues today in the fast food industry – how we mistreat and abuse chickens that we then eat, consequently malnourishing ourselves in the process. The font is based on a stencil font, which chicken bones where placed on top of, photographed, drawn and translated onto Font Struct to create the final product. The font is not designed as body text but is designed to be used for means that need a more impacting, visually striking and eye catching font.

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26 Glyph Wonder

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26 10523 Published: 24th October, 2016
Last edited: 28th October, 2016
Created: 19th October, 2016

Working with the theme 'destructive', I have investigated how eating unhealthy food can cause plaque build up and lead to tooth decay. The detail and shading on the letters represent the erosion of a tooth when it starts to decay. The font would be used for more decrative purposes but could also be used in add campaigns that warn the genral public of tooth decay. Due to the font being eroded its self it would reflect the information in the add and could even go as far as sublininally sending a message to the veiwer a warning that their teeth could end up looing like this font.

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4 1953 Published: 13th January, 2016
Last edited: 13th January, 2016
Created: 13th January, 2016
Clone of 5Fadeout.This is a clone of 5Fadeout

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6 4952 Published: 13th January, 2016
Last edited: 13th January, 2016
Created: 13th January, 2016

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6 1311 Published: 27th October, 2015
Last edited: 26th October, 2015
Created: 5th October, 2015

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18 0261 Published: 26th October, 2015
Last edited: 26th October, 2015
Created: 26th October, 2015
Urban Destruction is based on a destructed city. This evolved from the idea that fire is dangerous, and the cause of fire is destruction. I took this idea and developed it to destructed buildings that provoke a dangerous environment. This could be used as a title of a graphic novel, which are usually based in dangerous cities.

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11 0301 Published: 26th October, 2015
Last edited: 7th December, 2015
Created: 26th October, 2015
Urban Decay is the predecessor of Urban Destruction.

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9 0313 Published: 20th October, 2015
Last edited: 31st October, 2015
Created: 12th October, 2015
Originally inspired by the word ‘Disintegrate’. I explored the idea of decay and burnt edges, this lead to printing out an alphabet in the font Gotham and burning the edge just enough to get jagged edges but keep the text legible. By scanning in these letters I could print them onto graph paper which allowed me to format the shapes to fit with fontstruct. I feel this font is more suitable for posters or titles than a page body copy.

26 Glyph Wonder

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15 1352 Published: 12th November, 2014
Last edited: 12th November, 2014
Created: 12th November, 2014
This typeface is based on the theme of disintegration. I tried to make it as relevant to that theme as possible but did have a variety of issues along the way. By simplifying the idea again and again I feel that the typeface is both relevant to the theme while also having potential to be used in editorial work. I originally tried basing my font on DIN Condensed in order to pick up speed, but it instantly felt that I wanted to create an original piece. I feel that this typeface would be best suited to a small poster with decorative intent.

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15 0352 Published: 12th November, 2014
Last edited: 12th November, 2014
Created: 12th November, 2014
This typeface is based on the theme of disintegration. I tried to make it as relevant to that theme as possible but did have a variety of issues along the way. By simplifying the idea again and again I feel that the typeface is both relevant to the theme while also having potential to be used in editorial work. I originally tried basing my font on DIN Condensed in order to pick up speed, but it instantly felt that I wanted to create an original piece. I feel that this typeface would be best suited to a small poster with decorative intent.

26 Glyph Wonder

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194 53130 Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 26th October, 2014
Created: 15th October, 2014
Based on disintegration, this font represents many forms of decay. It also appears like tea-stains on paper, giving it a very worn look. Despite this, the font is structured around helvetica and the letterforms remain recognisable and readable. The font is designed to be decorative and to be use selectively, for bold and attention grabbing headers, and not for large pieces of text. Think poster for your local rubbish tip! (or of a similar vibe).

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21 4350 Published: 21st October, 2014
Last edited: 26th October, 2014
Created: 2nd October, 2014
This is Fracture my first font. My chosen theme for this project was ‘disintegrate’. I began by looking up synonyms for my theme and I explored them visually in my sketchbook, just basic pencil sketches of a handful of letters. I went for quite illustrative type with a simple structure – the effect layered over the letter. Whilst flicking through ‘typography sketchbooks’ I found some work I liked and considered to be a similar style to mine – urban influences. The letter works on a square of 10-34 across with a width of about 10 squares on the elements of the letter itself, although it varies on corners and joins which gives it a block or slab style. Because of the styling of the typeface I would say it’s use is in short texts or headings. It works better on small scales as on a larger scale the curves and disintegrating effect begin to pixelate.

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27 0443 Published: 27th November, 2013
Last edited: 4th December, 2013
Created: 2nd November, 2013
Based on the theme 'decay' I chose to look at how I could incorporate buildings into my font. I looked at derelict buildings during my development and thought the idea was strong enough to go ahead with. I wanted to give the idea of an abandoned city with the buildings decaying over time. I did this by bringing parts of the buildings skeleton through and with the shattered windows.

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17 0261 Published: 17th November, 2013
Last edited: 11th November, 2013
Created: 5th November, 2013
This is my edited version of the font Autumn leaves. This time i have made it so throughout the alpha bet the letter decay more and more to show how a leaf would decay through the seasons.This is a clone of Autumn Leaves

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22 0250 Published: 5th November, 2013
Last edited: 15th November, 2013
Created: 2nd November, 2013
(UNFINISHED) This is my first ever "fontstruction". It's based around the theme of decay. I looked at tooth decay and urban decay, and mixed them to create this rotting roots font.

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46 0262 Published: 4th November, 2013
Last edited: 4th December, 2013
Created: 4th November, 2013

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40 3273 Published: 27th October, 2013
Last edited: 8th December, 2013
Created: 27th October, 2013
Starting with the word 'decay', I went very literal with my typeface by observing the shrivelling skin and flesh of fruit. How the process of decay distorts and deforms an image but yet, can still remain constant. I continued to develop this idea but struggled to recreate it using fontstruct. So back to the drawing board and after further primary research looking at fungi, foliage and rust along the river path, I began sketching the weed 'horse weed'. In its dried state I found letterforms manifesting in the stems and seed pods and developed these sketches further, then recreated them on fontstruct. I encountered many difficulties at first as the design appeared more of a pixel drawing than a typeface. Deciding that I would be able to get finer detail by creating it on a larger scale I did some experimentation with various bricks before determining that the half pixel brick gave me the effect I desired.

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1652 2258145 Published: 23rd October, 2013
Last edited: 9th November, 2013
Created: 20th October, 2013
This san serif, textured, bold font is inspired by the old cast iron type on train carts. When I discovered the old train carts down at the 'Bristol Harbour Railway' I was fascinated by these incredible forms. To create the structure of these characters I worked from one of the rubbings I took of a particularly nice iron plate and then scanned it into the computer to replicate the letters which where missing. I then printed this on to graph paper and transferred the bricks one by one to try and get the most accurate representation as possible.This is a clone

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13 2267 Published: 2nd December, 2012
Last edited: 8th December, 2012
Created: 1st December, 2012
developed version of melt

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18 01781 Published: 29th November, 2012
Last edited: 29th November, 2012
Created: 29th November, 2012
Clone of Thunderball. When wanting to make this font lighter, I realised it made the font look rugged. But I liked it, so I stayed with it. This is a clone of Thunderball

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14 0301 Published: 26th November, 2012
Last edited: 2nd December, 2012
Created: 23rd November, 2012

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21 0269 Published: 30th October, 2012
Last edited: 13th November, 2012
Created: 18th October, 2012
Monospaced typeface designed for my first year project at UWE. The main theme of the font was developed by looking at decaying buildings and structures as well as graffiti artwork.

Monospaced

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9 0320 Published: 30th October, 2012
Last edited: 22nd November, 2012
Created: 22nd October, 2012
a research into dementia. This designed typeface represents the process of memory loss. Diagnosed, you lose all connections that you once took for granted. Now they are slowly drifting away from their once true and solid form. I wanted my typeface to appear slightly un-legible as a whole, but with it's original form still present.

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44 6329 Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 25th November, 2012
Created: 15th October, 2012
This font was made as a response to a brief given to me for my Graphic Design course. we were invited to chose a theme for a list of words, I chose decay. My inspiration originally came from my everyday walk to Uni; past old factories, over a disused railway bridge and past an old cricket ground. I then started to broaden my view of decay and looked at the way it effects different things including the decay theory (a theory used my psychologists about memory) and then finally I narrowed it down to dead tress. The finally font has been inspired by the illustrations of Tim Burton.

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21 1296 Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 5th November, 2012
Created: 24th October, 2012
For my first project at Uwe I had to produce a type face based on a word i chose from a list,I chose decay and wanted to look into how sea rope ages and decays.

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26 Glyph Wonder

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15 1313 Published: 28th October, 2012
Last edited: 26th November, 2012
Created: 16th October, 2012
UWE 'Communicating With Words' Graphic Design project. I chose to look at the theme 'Decay', and was inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Garforth, Daniele Del Nero, and natural occurrences such as rotting fruit and mould. I grew mould and made observational sketches, experimenting with a range of drawing techniques. I then drew out my font, and used graph paper to translate it into pixels. I feel this font could be used for things such as health posters for sexual health or smoking advertisements, or in children's books, due to the natural rounded quality.

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18 0651 Published: 25th October, 2012
Last edited: 29th October, 2012
Created: 17th October, 2012
When be began the project on designing my own typeface, I had to design and create it relating to a specific theme. I chose to focus my design on the theme of 'Decay'. From the beginning, I wanted to create typeface which represented a very basic idea of the the theme of Decay. I looked at all possible avenues that I could take into design consideration and ended up coming with some interesting concepts I could use. I started looking at the idea of Decay throughout technology. I began taking photos as well as researching forms of decay in technology. The one aspect which kept coming up were computer keyboards. I found plenty of images of keyboards with decay, which then acted as a key influence for my work. The idea for having my typeface created in the style of computer keys was quite unique to me. When in the creation process, I created the key design as well as the letter-forms which I had mapped out using graph paper. I was then to add the appearance of decay to the letter-forms afterwards. I then started coming up with styles of decay I could incorporate into the letter-forms. I wanted to have a clear representation of the theme, but keep it in the style/representation of computers. i.e Pixels. I messed around with one of the letter-forms with a basic pixel appearance of decay. When zoomed in, it didn't look like the standard I wanted it to be, but when zoomed out, the pixels came together to present the them in detail. I then went ahead and applied the feature to all of the letter-forms and punctuation symbols. The typeface was finally complete.

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44 34313 Published: 22nd October, 2012
Last edited: 31st October, 2012
Created: 21st October, 2012
This is the second of two typefaces that I have created in response to a brief set in my first term studying Graphic Design at UWE Bristol. My chosen theme for the six week project was decay. I decided to create two fonts, an original and a decayed version. I took inspiration from photos I took of graffiti and tagging around Bristol. For this specific font I was inspired by the way graffiti changes and breaks down over time. 'Decayed Spray' is my interpretation of the spray painted letter forms that crowd the walls of this city... after weather and humans have done their thing for a fair few years. www.jenniferlouisejohnson.tumblr.com This is a clone of spray

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Grunge

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11 0432 Published: 20th October, 2012
Last edited: 31st October, 2012
Created: 19th October, 2012
This is one of two typefaces that I have created in response to a brief set in my first term studying Graphic Design at UWE Bristol. My chosen theme for the six week project was decay. I decided to creat two fonts, an original and a decayed version. I took inspiration from graffiti and tagging that I photographed around the streets of Bristol. 'Spray' is my interpretation of the spray painted letter forms that crowd the walls of this city. www.jenniferlouisejohnson.tumblr.com

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Micro-Decay

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Finger Lickin' Good

Decay

5Blockout

5Fadeout

Gradual

Urban Destruction_

Urban Decay

Burnt Edge

BrickBrickSlim

BrickyBrickBold

Rottenistic

Fracture

Forgotten Skyline

Season Change

Pixel Teeth

Decline

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Having a Cast

melting

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melt

Rundown

WAIF

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Rope Only

Time

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decayed spray

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