Confidento is a typeface based and styled on the word Confident, aiming to produce a type which uses features that are strong and bold. One of the main characteristics I have aimed to encorporate throughout this process is the use of a balanced type design, enabling the design to not become too heavy. I achieved this through the means of having large variation in width across different aspects of the text. 

Iteration 1.10

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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".

While walking through Glitch Forest, you spot a sudden movement behind the Sprite Trees. It's [EVIL_ANGATONIST]! With a twisted smile, s/he/it converts your words into text written in this font. ZOUNDS! How will you get through summer school now?

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This was made to reproduce an amusing glitch found in MIDAS which caused insanely high ratings of 17.3×10^213 (17.3 septuagintillion). The glitch has since been fixed.

Hexagonal cursive

I went and mangled Spelunker by Zephram. I am messing with the shapes of the spaces between the letters. The name of the font indicates that most of the letters are wearing bell bottoms.

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, fractured glass, and more depending on font size and color.

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

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See also:Zap Cannon

Logotype made by request for a friend.

Another experimental outline balloon thing, made for a friend. Looks best at massive sizes!

I'm taking a few days off to clean up the mess left by the recent hurricane...

Corded modernist minimalism script typeface design.

It is trying to mimmic letters written with a bend metal wire or a chord.

It is only in lowercase letters at the moment no numerals and only very limited punctuations. But It is still very fun to play around with.

And my apologies for putting a sting of glyphs with only a line showing in the numeral block but I did this to make the pangram for the font show up in when viewed from the gallery

A formally-dressed Zigourat. :D

A design that looks like a top-down view of ziggurats!

I composited the diacritics so they'd fit into place, but this means that most anything non-English needs to be pretty large to be unambiguously read...

Some kind of great big ol' chain.

In retrospect, I think it looks like a jewelry chain from a dwarven civilization. Perhaps the hypothetical jeweler cut and ground the stones in an imitation of some dwarven font!

When glyphs are used in isolation, they somewhat resemble carved signets or seals. Increasing the letter spacing allows you to create a variation of the design. (This is something that must be done in-software since the font will render as monospaced by default.)

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12SEP2018: Added lowercase... the low resolution combined with the design method make it very difficult to render distinctive lowercase versions of every letter, but I'll keep working on it. There's a lot of similarity between pairs like S/5, Z/2, etc., so this font is most effectively used in forms of writing wherein context suffices to inform the reader as to the identity of each glyph (lists, prose, and technical writings). If you want to use this in a password system or something, I recommend using one case's glyphs only.

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Design Rules:

1. Negative spaces will be areas of 0.5 bricks' effective length or width.

2. Negative spaces may exceed the 0.5 measurement only by increments of 0.5 and in only one dimension at a time.

3. Glyphs will fill their framed canvasses to the greatest extent possible while adhering to the other rules.

Megashark's hard 1px outline was experimentally converted to a soft 1px outline. This result is far less readable to my eye, though it does look cool! Its printed words have a balloon-esque, almost organic quality.

"S.D.M.G." stands for "Super Dolphin Machine Gun", a weapon from the game Terraria. The Minishark and Megashark are from the same game. :^)

A minimized Minishark. How does that make it Mega? Well it's MEGA COOL.

I think this is the first 5x5 connected-outline design on FS!

An experiment to see if 3x3 fonts are more legible when drawn in negative space. I consider this to be not only a success, but also the most readable 3x3 design I have seen - particularly the uppercase.

The successors Megashark and S.D.M.G. are more useable and more stylish respectively, while Minishark strikes a good balance. 

This is considered an E3x3 because, while it's created in a 5x5 grid, it has an effective drawing area of only 3x3. The outermost square only has pixels drawn in it when the interior design dictates such.

A 7x7 outline design which is made to form solid-looking masses from the glyphs while still allowing the outer perimeters of words to take on some unique shapes.

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

Welcome to the Pixel Hive.

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE PIXEL HIVE

What's the matter? Don't you like square bricks? :D

Font built on a dotted grid. The sort of font you might create with a geoboard.

Style variation in the "STF_CONNECTED SQUARES v2" typeface family.

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A remastered version of "CONNECTED SQUARES". A previous recap I did from the work of late great dutch graphic designer "Jurriaan Schrofer".

This time I made a much more accurate version. I also added uppercase letters and some extra punctuations.

Enjoy!

Semibold version of Nobody's Treasure. Most glyphs have the same width as before, and the overall width of the font is the same.

Style variation in the "STF_CONNECTED SQUARES v2" typeface family.

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A remastered version of "CONNECTED SQUARES". A previous recap I did from the work of late great dutch graphic designer "Jurriaan Schrofer".

This time I made a much more accurate version. I also added uppercase letters and some extra punctuations.

Enjoy!

ELEVATED - A large 3D outline shadow display typeface.

It's inspired by the lettering from a sketch of great Dutch graphical designer "Jurriaan Schrofer".

Enjoy!

Bold variant of Ticketmeister.

Original size: 14.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A multi-line design which is slightly reminescent of mazes/fingerprints. It's not designed to create functional mazes, but it is somewhat capable!

"Absinthelyric Print" is an anagram for "Labyrinthine Script".

Original size: 11.25pt. Use multiples of this value for pixel perfection. (If you use antialiasing, it will look perfect at most any size.)

Design rules:

1. Square bricks and 90-degree angles only.

2. Alphabetic glyphs must have open terminals; numerals and symbols must have closed terminals. Letters which do not terminate (D,O, etc.) must be broken so that they terminate.

3. Glyphs must fill the 15x15 grid.

4. Ligatures and combinatorial glyphs must fit into one letter's space.

5. Draw from the outside in.

Balloon/block style pixel text.

Original size: 18.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Inspired by the Maze Set. A technical fontstruction showing the usage for thinner macaroni bricks. The logic for possible counter relation: 

1) Every letter is filled with thinner version of itself (self-pattern fill).

2) Outline vs Inline, emphasizing the "opposite" meaning of counter.

Fourth recap in a series to attempt to re-create some of the works from late great dutch graphic designer "Jurriaan Schrofer".

I hope you like it.

A clone of Marengi with some brick-substitution and filters applied. Has a "rightward" momentum that seems to push my eyes along as I read, as well as a connectedness which makes words seem nice and solid despite being segmented.

A tear-off ticket design. I went for the slightly gaudy look which is associated with carnivals and arcades.

While making this I also got the idea for a font which looks like a 35mm reel with little scenes on each segment...

Original size: 14.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Made on a whim as a result of rediscovering an old design (see sample).

It's pixel perfect at 12pt, 24pt, 36pt, etc. :^)

Since the inspiration image had only uppercase in it, I took some style liberties with the lowercase. The result is mildly comical!