120114225
Published: 30th May, 2009
Last edited: 30th June, 2009
Created: 27th May, 2009
A tribute to Josef Albers: inadvertently inspired by saberrider and afrojet.
This font totally happened by accident. Recently, saberrider created steep, which uses a 2.0 x 1.11 filter setting to smoothly blend the quarter-circle bricks into the triangles. After saberrider created his experimental variable scale fontstruction, it lead me to revisit an abandoned work I did from last year that was done in a similar scale. After getting over the initial disgust of looking at the dismal failure, I started tweaking. Then I decided to tweak the letters instead. It became apparent that I could create a stencil type font that also looked like Josef Alber's font. Coincidentally, Saberrider also has a variation with fontstract,
and of course, that Stewf guy has his own family of Leaflets. ;-) Afrojet's sessions came into play in creating some of the letter forms, especially the numerals. The final filter setting became 1.638 x 1.08, which created a nice fusion of the curved and triangular bricks, but was also naturally inclined to necessitate the vertical divide on each glyph. The rest flowed rather easily from there. Here's to more happy accidents. =)
The sample is also a tribute to Alber's color theory, showing the names in identical colors, which, when juxtaposed over contrasting colors tricks the eye into thinking the bottom name is darker than the top.
The following Josef Albers quote can relate to all things creative, like fontstructing, not just color:
"It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories.
As we begin principally with the material, color itself, and its action and interaction as registered in our minds, we practice first and mainly a study of ourselves.
Thus, we replace looking backward by looking first at ourselves and our surroundings, and replace retrospection with introspection."
- Josef Albers
This is a clone
16474042281
Published: 29th July, 2009
Last edited: 4th September, 2009
Created: 10th May, 2009
I intended to make some sort of an M.C.Escher tribute here. I'm sorry this isn't very complete and far from being perfectly well done, but it somewhat started to make me feel dizzy...;) And even though I'm not very convinced by this, I don't think I'd come up with a way better execution soon.
I hope for Mr Escher that there are better tribute fonts for him out there! He'd definitely deserve it...
It was by the way funk_king's Impossible Alphabet that reminded me of this unfinished thing laying around in my messy unpublished fontstructions box, and made me take it out and finish it. (If you can call 42 characters "finished".)
Also check out Frodo7's Hommage à Escher, geneus1's IsoMatrix 3D, and funk_king's Soma for some other great Escher-esque fontcrafting!
1251120124
Published: 2nd September, 2009
Last edited: 6th September, 2009
Created: 30th August, 2009
Clone of FS Mini which started as an alternative with UC & filter set at 2 to gain half brick positions. I changed the filter to 1.78 after not being satisfied with it & got amazed by the possibilities. Even when I came to some brick limitations I found myself redesigning some glyphs to abusethem of these new found possibilities & maintain a certain harmony within the whole set.This is a clone of FS Mini
6712598
Published: 6th September, 2009
Last edited: 27th April, 2024
Created: 6th September, 2009
The dirty version of safehouse. Minimal stencil font, lowercase, numerals and some punctuation.
More on http://typerider.wordpress.com/This is a clone
128305843
Published: 6th September, 2009
Last edited: 6th September, 2009
Created: 5th September, 2009
Minimal stencil font. lowercase, numerals and some punctuation. More on http://typerider.wordpress.com/This is a clone
3539711
Published: 1st April, 2010
Last edited: 22nd May, 2011
Created: 31st March, 2010
Using a 1.8 filter, gives a nice curve.
I may add the upper case at some later stage, but they are not essential for me at the moment.
165127974
Published: 1st April, 2010
Last edited: 1st April, 2010
Created: 22nd August, 2009
Two years already!?!
Time flies when you're having fun.
Based on the FontStruct Logo that could have been.
;-)
173265240
Published: 18th April, 2010
Last edited: 25th April, 2010
Created: 18th April, 2010
This is and experimental work to create a strong stencil face with a distinct character. It is a work in progress. Some glyphs may change. If you know prior art(s) very similar to this, please let me know. This is a clone
3715078119
Published: 1st May, 2010
Last edited: 19th May, 2011
Created: 30th April, 2010
Yesterday afternoon I was sipping Coke on a sunny terrace and thinking about life, and the universe, when an idea came out of the blue about a new stencil font. The idea was so simple, I almost felt ashamed not having it much earlier. Back home I started to work on it, and created the first set of letters. It's a work in progress, fraught with imperfections, including the usual spacing-kerning problems. Remolino is a Spanish word for vortex.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
50415311
Published: 29th September, 2012
Last edited: 10th October, 2012
Created: 28th September, 2012
First entry for stencilcomp. â/ã/ê are not real stencils now though.