ORIENTFAHRTEN (Pro) — Semi-connected script-style font design
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Losely based on the lettering that was seen on a 1929 poster design by German painter Ottomar Carl Joseph Anton (1895-1976) for the “Hamburg-Amerika Line” * (click for image of the original poster)
Whereas the original (non-Pro)-version aimed at extracting that “stylistic essence” of the lettering, and made an attempt at extrapolating and restoring a full alphabet from the letters provided by the original poster. And this basically became sort-of a font revival with a little extra's.
ORIENTFAHRTEN (Pro) than took this to a whole other level, This refor-mation wasn't guided by Ottomar's original poster-lettering, but rather a remodeling and amelioration of my initial work.
Many glyphs were fully re-invented, others only just partially improved.
In addition to this, many new things were introduced as well. For example, the font was further ornated with various typographic elements and bits, reminiscent of calligraphic hand lettering. Turning this into a much more attractive looking little novelty.
Also some “technical” restructuring of the Unicode character mapping, to creating more user-friendly text formatting properties.
Since it is a semi-connected script, certain characters were deliboratly disconnect and some weren't. For example, the uppercase letters almost all disconnect, whereas the majority of lowercase letters will connect by default. A set of glyphs alternate forms was included that allow to break the 'connected' flow of a text.
These also function sort-of as “Contextual Substitutions”, but without OpenType's automated glyph-stream lookup classes. Yet these do allow the manual control over word-endings and word-space situations. So when a default-glyph is followed by a white-space, a glyph-alternate form could than be selected to replace the default-character encoding and improve overall aesthetics and natural flow of text. These substitutions are located in the “Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms” and “Private Use Area's” Unicode blocks. In addition to the default alphabet letters the font also includes numerous symbols and punctuation marks, as well as ligatures.
As for the “numberscomp” that is currently in progress:
This font was specially fitted with 5different schemes for text figure arrangement.
• Didot-(old style) non-lining (font default)
• Traditional-(old style) non-lining
• Clean-(modern) lining
• Tradidotional-(old style) non-lining
• Ornate-(modern) lining
— This does temporarily create a new problem for me though... As this would be my fourth submission to the competition, where a maximum of only three font submissions is allowed. Now, which of these previous entries am I going to eliminate?!
I hope you like it,
Cheers
This is a cloneInspirations for this font: tm Extend by thalamic, STF_WIDTH SHIFT by Sed4tives, and Exdended by 18man
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Make each letter any width you like.
Type a capital letter for the left half, then extenders (but you don't have to), then the same lowercase letter for the right half. The more extenders that are inserted between the two halves, the wider the letter becomes.
I and T are exceptions, where the extenders are placed before and after the halves, not between.
Other exceptions are M, W, and Y, which are split into three, and extenders are placed between the left, middle, and right thirds.
The ? is split between ? and /
The extenders are located at @#$%^&*`, with [] being specific for the I, and {} being specific for the T to get proper spacing between those two letters.
How to extend the letters: A@@a, B##b, C$$c, D$$d, E##e, F%%f, G##g or G$$g or G$$##g, H^^h, [[Ii]], J$$j or J&&j or J&&$$j, K^^k, L&&l, M**(**m, N**n, O$$o, P%%p, Q$$q, R%%r, S##s, {{Tt}}, U&&u, V&&v, W&&)&&w, X^^x, Y^^|^^y, Z##z, ?``/
This was an attempt for a thin line rounded numbers based on straight circles, but could not manage to consistently expand on the idea trough a whole font. Originaly meant for the competition, but it was not worth it at first.
DALLIANCE GROTESK — Geometric gothic grotesque
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Dalliance Grotesk is a solid sans-serif lettering concept that builds on the ‘core’-lettering concept of frongile's amazing work called Liaison Grotesk
Liaison is a renegade take on the gothic grotesque sans-serif style. A wonderful mix of early egyptian styles that get blended with subtle neo-grotesque hints, held firmly together by a rigid condensed geometric letter-backbone. The crude design of Liaison provides a very distinctive and unpolished appearance, that breaths a lot of visual character.
Its geometric quirkiness and rather irregular letter widths, just the slight imperfect overall lettering simply came together perfectly in frongile's original design. Making this a text-book example as for whyback in the day this style became known as ‘Grotesque’.
Yes, Ugly.. Obnoxious.. and... ‘Always in your face’
— Exactly how we like them best...
Dalliance Grotesk is the result of harvesting some of that original soul personality as was seen in Liaison and borrows it for extrapolation into a different font.
While Dalliance tried to preserve much of the overall letter-backbone structures from the original source, its primary aim was, to push towards a more polished finishing touch.
Simplified letters that were stripped of most quirks and bits, keeping only their rough shape intact.
In addition, all curved letter-parts were fully re-build with smoother contours and more natural flowing curve transitions. The spurred top and bottom stroke-stops for the lower-case letters had been changed so that the top now slightly differ from the bottom spurs (different tapered angle). Also the top spurs all have been slightly lowered to make them sit a tad bit bellow the x-height of the font.
Main modification revolved more or less around achieving cleaner overall text rendering and better optimization for body copy in small point sizes. In the process of getting there, I carefully adapted each glyph equipped fit, to appropriately accommodate all the ty(pro)graphic goodness one can possibly hope to pull out of a Fontstruct.
Smooth (near)-Bézier contour quality, optical compensating correction adjustments, such as overshoots, small vertical stressed contrast and improved stroke joints. Also the font's proportions for height to weight ratio has drastically changed.
— Utilizing sort-of an attenuate 'knockoff' to frongile's original concept for his Liaison Grotesk.
I would like to thank him for allowing me to harvest the basis of his lettering-concept and letting me re-use that as the stylistic back-bone in the creation of my own font.
The set of characters that have been used to display large text using Large Type by the HP 2640 series of terminals.
Got the inspiration for this one from a Scania L94UB bus with a route information screen. The one I came across displayed “Leighton Buzzard” in this dotted font. Those letters were the starting point, but weren’t kept exactly the same as they were on that screen.
This is a clone of Leightyear LooseGot the inspiration for this one from a Scania L94UB bus with a route information screen. The one I came across displayed “Leighton Buzzard” in this dotted font. Those letters were the starting point, but weren’t kept exactly the same as they were on that screen.
This is a clone of LeightyearThis type face was originally inspired by the title of horizon zero dawn, I have a love of Sci-fi and wanted to bring something bold with some movement built directly in. I veiw this working well being writen in an eastern style straight up and down, but also large and spread out.
(WIP) The Cat in Can font.
Changes:
- Height Spacing
- Vertical Line
- Solidus
- Reverse Solidus
- Asterisk
- Ampersand
- Grave Accent
- Right Parenthesis
- Left Parenthesis
- Right Curly Bracket
- Left Curly Bracket
tried to remake the infamous minecraft font but with a little twist
this is my first font that uses fake 3x3 and 1.5x1.5 curves, hope you like it
the only thing I changed from the original is the tilde because of its original 6x2 size (at least in a reference font I'm using), and I don't really like the ampersand because of its funky shape. though I quite like the overall result, especially how it looks in a small size.
Art-Day-Co. — Decorative geometric futurist sans
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A more experimental and fururistic take on a standard geometric grotesque that started out as "All-Caps" lettering concept. The innitial first idea was to create capital letters only and to provide these with additional capital letter alternate forms, Now, things not always go as they were invisioned, as was the case during this project..
After creating a couple of capital letters, and just when I was thinking I had this new brainchild for a cool looking font, I ren out of ideas for more experimental letter solutions; — Inspiration dried up quicker than water droplets evaporate on the surface of the sun!
But honestly imo things especially got interresting when I unintentionally started doodling lowercase letters for this font. And I don't know what happeded here, but it somehow completely changed the mood of this font (To understand what I mean just cross-compare 2 lines of text, one with all lowercase text and the other all caps text).
Both somewhat very different, but mixing effortlessly to create a very distinct and unique looking font. I can't put my finger to it as to what style it is.
Cheers
DAN NIET — Futuristic rounded sans
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This is a recreation of Svetoslav Simov's Dan typeface that was published by Fontfabric back in 2010.
A while ago I came across some image that used this cool futuristic geometric sans. And without first doing proper research I started to FontStruct the lettering seen in the image. Once those were completed I didn't really had a good vision on where to lead the rest of the letter inventions, so I went looking online to find something similar that perhaps could get me inspired to complete it after all.
Scouring the web for a while I stumbled upon some sample images for a typeface called DAN by Svetoslav Simov. And it was unmistakably the font seen in the initial image that I used for the first couple of letters.
Now, I could've abandoned the project at this stage and take my loss, but I felt that the work that already had been done up to this point would be a sad waste of something that was actually kind of fun to make. So for this reason I decided to go ahead and continue the project, and instead this time the focus shifted towards recreating the original DAN typeface.
I included a number of small changed to certain letterforms to suite my personal preference better, but it very much remains Svetoslav's work.
Because the original DAN typeface is a commercial product this recreation won't be made available for downloading. It was strictly made for the fun of it, with no intent to redistribute. It was published solely as a showcase of the FontStruct editor's capabilities.
I dubbed the project DAN NIET which is Dutch forTHEN DON'T.
This sort of as a wordplay to the original's name and it's off-limit legally restricted status, hence the inclusion ofDON'T.
— It still remains a WIP..
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DISCLAIMER:I hereby state that I do not own the rights to this, and all rights belong to it's original owner. Credits for the original lettering concept go to the creator. No Copyright Infringement Intended.
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STEAMLINER — 1920s Art-Deco style
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Steamliner is a simple looking linear All-Caps display font with elegant geometric letters. It comes from a mix of Art-Deco retro style with a distinct irregular curved asymmetry, Essentially blending Art-Deco with Art Nouveau into a more simplified clean & solid lettering style.
The character set mixes various glyph alternative forms for the capital letters together to provoke a slight feel of randomness.
— The font Em-square is only 1.5 × 1.5 bricks
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