Esta fuente ha sido hecha para usarla un día muy especial en la vida de mis adorados Héctor y Trini, que han decidido casarse. ¡Os queremos felices por siempre! ¡Vivan los novios!
Not finished font (kern in progress). An extra "Q" has been added in place of the "©" glyph, and a nice heart symbol appears also at the "™" one. I'll fine-tune some details ASAP, I promise.
I was just on the internet watching videos when I stumbled accross a video that was about a guy talking about something called the "ClockClock 24". I looked this up and I kid you not: it is a 24 hour clock made of smaller Analog clocks. When I saw this I was like, "only if you were able to make it display letters...", and then I thought, "I could do that".
And thats how this monstrosity was born.
Plum Blossom (V2)
Version 2 update: Tiles are now in 3D isometric view
My only entry for the Fontstruct Color competition, consisting of 38 tile designs for the Chinese game of Mahjong (+ tile back).
I underestimated how big of an undertaking this was going to be, but luckily I managed to curb my perfectionism and get most of the tiles done with designs I'm satisfied with. The Chinese characters were traced from images on Wikimedia Commons (1, 2) and then modified to fit my taste, the space on the tile, even out stroke width and so on. Hopefully they turned out looking good and legible, as I'm not at all familiar with the system. The rest of the designs were freehanded.
The font is named (for now) after my favorite of the designs - the plum Flower Tile, one of the last I drew. (mapped to 'w')
Character Mapping
This font uses two mappings for each of the tiles, to the following Unicode character sets:
Mahjong Tiles (U+1F000 ... U+1F02F)
All tiles are represented except for the four Season Tiles and Joker (U+1F026 ... U+1F02A)
Basic Latin
Coins suit: a to i
Bamboo suit: A to I
Charaters suit: 1 to 9
Dragons: | (Red) 0 (White) # (Green)
Winds: ^ (N) v (S) > (E) < (W)
Flowers: w (Plum) x (Orchid) y (Chrysanthemum) z (Bamboo)
Tile Back: *
Possible Future Updates
I'll probably be taking a break from Fontstruct for a while, but some ideas for future improvements could be:
- Change name
- Add four Season tiles
- Add Joker
- Redesign 1 Bamboo tile (Current one based on a design from this article. It was easiest to replicate but doesn't really fit the rest of the set)
- Add character mapping to Chinese chars.
- [DONE] 3D Isometric view of the tiles
Extra Links
"How Do I Know if my Mahjong Set is Complete?" from mahjongtreasures.com was helpful.
Also this YouTube video from Accented Cinema provided an interesting look into the culture surrounding the game.
Thanks for reading. Feedback will be appreciated!
ColorComp entry, inspired by the Memphis art style. I started this originally a few years ago with several color variations (using the three main colors), but I couldn't decide which ones to go with, so this sat unfinished for a while. In the end I decided to go with this.
This is a cloneA modular colour font inspired by toy bricks and soft plastic textures, suggested to use in large sizes.
This is a clone of Ambrose ColorA font that tries to mimic the anaglyph effect that makes images appear 3D. Red and blue are the most common colors for this technique, but green and magenta work as well. If you had the right pair of 3D glasses, this might look different.
My entry for ColorComp. I will admit this isn't as good as some of my other works, and this is a bit of a derivative work, but other than that, it's pretty good.
Letters and numbers only.
Edit: HOLY CRAP MY FIRST TOP PICK!!!!!!!!
A blackletter-inspired unicase design. I'm thinking this will look good on certificates, diplomas and all sorts of official documents where readability is secondary. I've got some spacing adjustments to make in the punctuation.
This is my little contribution to the fantastic recovering universe
called LETTERS OP MAAT by the great @Sed4tives about the typographic world of the dutch artist and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer. Btw, I sincerely apologize to @Sed4tives for the undue delay and the time it took to publish this exciting addition to his magnificent series (I'm sure he thought I'd forgotten, didn't he, comp4ñero?). Hope you like and enjoy these two fonts in one.
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GUIDE TO FIND GLYPHS:
- Curved left unicase: A to Z + Ç, Ñ, Æ, Œ.
- Curved right unicase: a to z + ç, ñ, æ, œ.
- Curved left numbers: 0 to 9.
- Curved right numbers: for 0 type %, 1=<, 2= =, 3=>, 4=[, 5=], 6={, 7=|, 8=}, 9=^.
- Other curved left glyphs like ., , , ”, ’, ', ?, !, @, $, &, (, ) and -: in their own glyphs, plus :=/.
- Other curved right glyphs: ”=“, ’=‘, '=", @=*, &=#, -=+, .=:, ,=;, $=`,:=\, ?=¿, !=¡, (=_, )=~...
... The work still in progress (diacritics in the oven)...