39353612
Published: 29th October, 2012
Last edited: 22nd November, 2012
Created: 16th October, 2012
Part of my "Found Type" project at UWE where we had to design a font for a theme that we chose.
I chose Saintly.
Throughout my research, I looked at the architecture of churches, the similarities in there designs and how certain shapes could easily be recognised as being linked to that type of architecture.
I then started looking at Dante Alghieri's Divine Comedy and the illustrations by John Flaxman and Gustav Doré.
At first it became difficult trying to figure out how to implement this into a font, but then I took on a challenge,
Would it be possible to get Doré's engravings into the font.
Then another thought crossed my mind, how do images look when compressed to low pixel quality sizes and how they are still recognisable.
So I did that, I bought a book of Doré's illustrations for the divine comedy, and they started to build into the letters.
Each letter also has this Art Deco like area to it which went well for the Stain Glass Window approach I also wanted in the design.
It took a lot of practice to get this right, and there was a fair amount of copy and pasting here and there but overall I'm quite happy with the turn out.
I hope you all enjoy!
308986
Published: 19th October, 2012
Last edited: 20th October, 2012
Created: 18th October, 2012
This is my attempt at a serif techo font but it some how came out with a hint of graffiti in it
75128711
Published: 5th April, 2012
Last edited: 27th October, 2022
Created: 20th February, 2012
Narrow didone. I'm not sure if lowercase is a wortwhile effort, but, who knows?This is a clone
451622617
Published: 27th February, 2012
Last edited: 18th September, 2015
Created: 25th February, 2012
Clone of db Rocko v. 1., Serif, Text, Heads, db, BeateThis is a clone
101521029
Published: 17th February, 2012
Last edited: 21st February, 2012
Created: 16th February, 2012
A monospaced, serif retrofuture font designed to be easily legible while still having a distinctive visual style. Full Basic Latin and some extended symbols.v2 improves legibility of "m" and several symbols (mathematical operators, mainly) ~12Kb .zip (getting v3 instead is recommended) 2-21-12: Applied v3 punctuation fixes since this was made a top pick instead. v3 still has more improvements, though, even in the Basic Latin set.
80994
Published: 16th February, 2012
Last edited: 14th February, 2012
Created: 9th February, 2012
A single pixel became a single houndstooth pixel and from there became this typeface. For lovers of houndstooth and pixelation.
193538
Published: 9th December, 2011
Last edited: 20th December, 2011
Created: 27th October, 2011
Font inspired by Bézier control points found in vector graphic software such as Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape.
The irony is in the brick-based construction of Fontstructing, but I had lots of fun nonetheless.
This set will be further developed though - any and all feedback are welcome :D
971215821
Published: 30th November, 2011
Last edited: 5th September, 2015
Created: 29th November, 2011
A bold serif font, inspired by "Horseclans" book covers. The name is an anagram of "typograph".
68418816
Published: 20th November, 2011
Last edited: 29th November, 2011
Created: 3rd November, 2011
A badass slab serif reminiscent of the West, 60's rock posters, and the digital world. This is a clone
5374266121
Published: 9th November, 2011
Last edited: 5th December, 2011
Created: 8th November, 2011
This Fonstruction was created in my first year studying graphic design at UWE. The design brief was to create a typeface using the key word; 'ornate'. I have taken heavy influence from gothic fonts and architecture, looking in particular at religion and religious texts. For more information please visit my website at http://wasteofpaper.co.uk/wordpress
I welcome all comments and constructive criticism, thank you :)This is a clone
2664267153
Published: 17th February, 2011
Last edited: 16th March, 2011
Created: 7th June, 2010
OK.
Here's "VUVUZELA"
A typeface inspired by the continent of africa, but mainly by the WorldCup of soccer 2010 in South Africa!
To catch on of the strongest associations for me relating to africa, i chose black and white stripes, maybe to remind of zebras or other animal patterns. But the effect also stands for the "swoosh" of a ball flyin by, for just the the "sporty" feel i wanted it to have.
Enjoy it.
There's an alternative "a" on "="
cheers kix
811416921
Published: 6th February, 2011
Last edited: 18th February, 2011
Created: 3rd January, 2011
More fun with composite stacks, packing more detail into smaller grids. The crosshatching is made less regular by alternating and rotating a set of three four similar, yet distinct bricks. correction made on 2/15This is a clone of Fat Bit
3131649
Published: 7th January, 2011
Last edited: 20th January, 2011
Created: 6th January, 2011
A classic catholic converted to the computer era. Readable at pixel-size.
5598122
Published: 6th January, 2011
Last edited: 6th January, 2011
Created: 5th November, 2009
Cripple crow valley gave birth to this hunchback orphan.This is a clone
11263129
Published: 8th November, 2010
Last edited: 11th December, 2010
Created: 26th October, 2010
This is my first fontstruct! :D
It is based on sharp objects, which then evolved onto more of a medical theme and surgery. I wanted it to look really precise with clean cut sections out of the characters. I also interpreted 'sharp' to be 'on point' and 'ordered', so wanted my type to look clean. I was inspired a lot by Bodoni as its such a clean type with contrasting thick and thin lines which also relates to the cutting and slicing.
Any help and tips are welcome!!This is a clone
5877915
Published: 19th October, 2010
Last edited: 22nd October, 2010
Created: 24th September, 2010
Many fellow designers have tried executing this idea. This is my crack on the solution.
All letters are comprised of uniform-sized right-angled isosceles triangles.
388886117
Published: 11th July, 2010
Last edited: 11th July, 2010
Created: 9th July, 2009
3D Stripes font with shadow or not, this is a simple clean font with a stripes effect
106136554
Published: 22nd June, 2010
Last edited: 9th July, 2010
Created: 16th May, 2010
Legere. Latin root of the word 'legible.' An attempt at an original legible serif typeface. No single reference used, but I did keep the Serif section of the FontBook always open. After finishing the letters, it guess it resembles Melior or Renault.
Somewhat inspired after caliopigio released Formal Roman. Maximization of composite angles were used to hammer out smooth curves in a smaller grid space. Cap height=42. I know I can make it smoother by working at twice the size, but at this point, fuggeddaboutit.
062110
225610758
Published: 21st June, 2010
Last edited: 7th August, 2010
Created: 2nd June, 2010
A simple block serrif that was frequently used on traditional narrowboats in the UK.
6493711
Published: 20th June, 2010
Last edited: 20th June, 2010
Created: 16th June, 2010
A kirigami font: Budino gliphs with cutting and folding lines for creating kirigami text.This is a clone of Budino
88153751
Published: 19th June, 2010
Last edited: 20th June, 2010
Created: 25th May, 2010
Another fat-heavy-black-squarish font, but with little slab serifs thanks to FontStruct 2.0 features.
2981688110
Published: 14th June, 2010
Last edited: 20th June, 2010
Created: 13th June, 2010
Inspired by the sign-writing on traditional UK narrowboats.This is a clone of RM Narrowboat
551316112
Published: 30th May, 2010
Last edited: 22nd June, 2010
Created: 28th May, 2010
Nomina Hard Serif is an strong and solid font with no more ornaments than necessary.This is a clone of Nomius
5636612
Published: 11th May, 2010
Last edited: 12th May, 2010
Created: 5th May, 2010
Clone of Seriface. The original Seriface was attempted without the additional angles provided by the new FS2.0 features. It was awful. The size was increased and faux-bezier curves were maximized via the combination of 1:2 filtration and composite bricks. Now its beautifully awful.
WIP. Uppercase only.This is a clone
88126626
Published: 11th April, 2010
Last edited: 27th April, 2010
Created: 17th March, 2010
A very small grid size, and a large diversity of bricks, for a serif font reminding Italian food labels from the 50s and 60s.This is a clone
235107768
Published: 22nd March, 2010
Last edited: 12th October, 2012
Created: 21st March, 2010
As complete as it is likely to get.
Apologies to non-English language users, but adding diacritics would be too big a task (involving between 50 - 150 brick stacks per glyph). If anyone wants a specific diacritic, for a particular use, contact me and I will try to add it.This is a clone of RM Romantic Carved FS1
2241412896
Published: 16th February, 2010
Last edited: 16th February, 2010
Created: 8th February, 2010
Alternate Ligatures: (worth copying)
¬ = ct
` = st
~ = f (s)
^ = ft (st)
# = fh (sh)
AE, ae, fi, fl, f (s) and the long s are in their places within the More and Extended Latin sets (thanks to riccard0 for his advice on the last two).This is a clone of RM Almanack FS 1.0