Continuing on the theme of overzealously antialiased pixel fonts, here's a 3x5 no-wasted-matrix design. The shading enabled me to make many glyphs which normally need to be truncated or compressed (MWaemswz@«©»®, etc). Looks best at 2x Pixel size!

This gives me an "old newspaper" feeling and seems like the kind of font that would be used for the text of such newspapers in old adventure games.

A spirally design which tries its best to be lineal. Check out the "M" to see the "ammonyte". :D

Well, for some time I've wanted to make a font entirely with spirals. This is not that font, but it's as close as I've gotten to actually carrying out the idea. This is also small enough to use for body text, which is likely more than will be able to be said about an actual 100% spiral font.

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Original size: 15.75pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

A busy and sometimes harsh-looking stencil design. It has a structural asymmetry which I think gives it a casual look.

Check out the Pixel views! It looks a bit like a light-up marquee.

Experimental 5x3 font. This went through quite a few iterations! The result is surprisingly readable, but still not quite something I'd want to use as a chat font.

In making this I did my best to avoid compression and truncation, trying instead to use the interpretation of light as my guide. Many glyphs don't look much at all like what they represent, but as my eye glides over them, they make sense and I read them without issue.

Comments Welcome

See more:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1312355/modernedsormr

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/860986/nectarine

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/772601/luikeza_4

http://www.velvetyne.fr/fonts/gulax/

Experimental sliced sans serif. My goal here was to make a design which would result in an extremely compact and durable physical stencil. If any readers end up constructing this stencil, I'd love to see it! I don't own any CNC tech myself...

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Version History

1.3 - added More Latin and Google Fonts Basic bands.

1.2 - added uppercase, changed name to "Aegris Stencil".

1.1 - edited for more readability at small size. Glyphs with enclosed loops were altered so that the "movement" of the segments always runs clockwise.

1.0 - released.

Font "leaves" are built on the basis of a natural motif - a leaf. Strokes are formed from dark and light leaves

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52 characters for the basic Latin set, 10 numerals, 36 punctuation characters, 66 characters for the Russian language set

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Please let me know what do you think :)

An attempt at Gridbug in 2x2!

Another 2x2 doodle. :^)

Experimental doodle. The idea here was to make letters, ascenders/descenders, and diacritics obey the same ratios. The result looks sci-fi and sporty at the same time...

Iteration 1.11

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Tribal doodle thing. Still in its experimental phase. It's named for Abraxas, a Tromp from the PC game "Commander Blood". (As it turns out, the same name has many historical and mythological uses.)

Version 1.2

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A slightly futuristic and stencilesque design using halfwidth bricks.

The idea here was to make every glyph simple and minimal, not only in terms of geometry but line connections as well. Some glyphs are still more complex/less minimal than others, but I think it's a good amount of variety.

Argh, this was horrible to make .. well, getting it slightly balanced was a nightmare. The missing segments of the glyphs constantly caused my brain to correct what I was looking at by means of general logic and my knowledge about the way in which letter spacing usually works. This effect was worst with the letters T, U, Y. And I am convinced that it still contains the necessary disproportionate irregularities with regard to the metrics. I tried kerning it as best as I could. It has only uppercase letters, no numerals and very limited punctuations. I am not sure if I will ever complete this.

enjoy!

An experimental logotype and another attempt to create a distinctive design in 2x2. Some words look better than others... it's best for 1-2 word phrases rather than body text.

"B", "P", and "R" are compromise designs... no satisfactory way exists to create their curves while maintaining the optimal line width, so their counters were filled a bit to give them the same sense of solidity as the other letters.

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A "denghon" is a giant, many-limbed, extradimensional creature found throughout my games, especially ESOS.

A font made to have a "carved stone" look the likes of which might be found in some ancient underground temple.

Inspired by the many hours I've spent playing a certain platforming roguelike... >.>

A font which evokes a feeling of roving warbands. It looks a bit Wild West, too! It started as one of those blackletter designs with diamond-shaped terminals, but then I experimented on it and now we have this.

A dashed line design made with the new half-arc bricks. The emphasized spurs/stems and off-kilter geometry give it a quirky, almost handwritten quality. Its striped appearance makes me think of candy as well as the Cheshire Cat, thus the name. :D

I doubt the upper case would look as cute as the lower. So I've cloned all LC to UC to make this easier to use...

An evil electromagnetic zigzag tape reel. Looks almost embossed, as if the letters were "pressed" into the waves somehow. In that way it reminds me of old hand-operated label makers. It also makes me think of electricity, TV static, ocean waves, tire tracks, fractured glass, and more depending on font size and color.

The name is inspired by an attack from a notorious NES game, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

A font made to the height of the visible field when the FontStructor is zoomed all the way out on my screen. I've always wanted to make something that vaguely pushed one of FS' limits - in this case, the height of the field which I can observe without scrolling.

Well, I could've made this even taller, but I wanted it to be somewhat useable at least. :D

This was originally a pixel design, but then I changed my mind and converted it to high-res. That gave it a more architectural look.

An ornate Goud with lots o' thorns! Now with MORE THORNS.

Rather than serve an ornamental or decorative purpose, this one is made to be as clean as possible so that it works well for body text. It's highly legible at small size, so it could potentially even be a programmer's font!

"Goud" stands for "Garden of Unearthly Delights", the name of an album from the band Cathedral.

A font in which only right turns are allowed. Where lines would be forced to turn left, they are segmented instead.

Even when these glyphs are flipped or transformed, they remain able to be drawn via right turns only!

An attempt to make a Calculatrix with both squares and hexagonal segments. The result doesn't really fit in with the others, but it has a harsh and highly technical appearance about it which I like.

More glyphs later, maybe?

Logotype made by request for a friend.

Iterated version of an unreleased design called "Midnight Oil". It's also slightly related to Dethzmezenger and Gehenna.

I went against a few of my own conventions for this one. The close spacing might look a bit strange at times, but it eliminates the need for kerning while also creating a unique look. The overlapping spurs make me think of thorny plants!

This is an original design, but it does make me think of Planescape: Torment when I look at it, thus the name!

Another of Dr. Zeph's* mad experiments! This is an Alien Latin Groovy Minimalist Thingamabob with numerous unique forms of dyslexia-inducing ambiguity. It reads surprisingly well at small size!

* = not a real doctor 

An extension of ideas present in "Gehenna".

Experimental brush/pen thing. Has a slightly spooky look. Because of their tapering curves, many glyphs can render with a "split" or "stencil" look about them. This is due to software-imposed limitations on vector rendering. Designs which share this property can be considered Pseudostencils.

This design is not informed or inspired by any existing typographical traditions. I set out to make the "claw" bricks (as I call them) into a font and this is the result.

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I wondered what a plain version of Candylander would look like, so I made this. :D

I think a fully half-arc version could look even more stylish than this! Hope to find time to create one soon.

Experimental font made with the new half-arc bricks. It reminds me of striped candy, but also looks like tape reels or machine gaskets!

The first of a kind - an experimental font made with the new pizza slice brick. :D

Somehow it makes me think of jukeboxes, particularly letters like "A" and "O" which have the same sort of "mosaic lighting" look which many jukeboxes have.

No filters, just nudging!