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Published: 25th May, 2011
Last edited: 21st June, 2011
Created: 15th May, 2011
Clone of Squarific. I did call it a font family, so here is the second member. Still a work in progress.This is a clone of Squarific
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Published: 17th May, 2011
Last edited: 16th May, 2011
Created: 14th May, 2011
Clone of Bridge. Adapted for making banners with a digital diecutter like the Cricut.This is a clone of Bridge
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Published: 6th November, 2011
Last edited: 13th April, 2020
Created: 30th December, 2010
Based on Claredont, featuring the new slightly improved S and some added glyphs.This is a clone of Claredont
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Published: 5th November, 2010
Last edited: 5th November, 2010
Created: 4th November, 2010
Typeface initially based on the theme of decay, getting inspiration from the look of old, rotten, decayed wood. Created for my first year project at UWE Bristol, and my first fontstruction.
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Published: 30th September, 2010
Last edited: 28th October, 2010
Created: 30th September, 2010
The rules: rounded terminals, small grid, no contrast, no cross-strokes or intersections. The effect: neon tube, router groove, cake icing, live bait.This is a clone
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Published: 23rd September, 2010
Last edited: 23rd September, 2010
Created: 23rd September, 2010
This one evolved as I was working on it. Originally intended to be a slab serif using the new bricks but no filters, stacks, or composite bricks. I found that the letters looked cooler when some of their shapes were implied.
If I can get around to stencilling this, I'll enter it in the handmade competition.
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Published: 16th July, 2010
Last edited: 24th February, 2011
Created: 16th July, 2010
It's been a while since I've published anything, and I have a few font projects going, but here is one that I just came up with and made in a couple hours. It's a stencil font that uses a horizontal line to open all the bowls.
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Published: 23rd August, 2010
Last edited: 26th February, 2017
Created: 21st June, 2010
Re-fontstructed with composite bricks, finally an uppercase that works with this strange mash-up of a design. Latin-A is a mess of alternates and swashy ideas (for now). I may update them with proper diacritics, a suite of swash caps, and the rest of the characters from the original. Numerals need revising to fit the cap height. Enjoy this beta!This is a clone
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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
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Published: 31st May, 2010
Last edited: 1st June, 2010
Created: 29th May, 2010
Another stencil font...with obvious influences from Glaser Stencil (because I love it so!). But to be fair, Glaser Stencil was not referenced even once in the making of this fontstruction.
Allow me to wax technical about FontStruct 2.0 for a bit. A lot of my fontstructions have been even thickness all around. However, the evenness have been approximated thus far—not so anymore. First there were the 45° bricks; then came the 26.57°/63.43° bricks. With the 2.0 Make Composite feature, 14.04°/75.96° angles became possible. These two additional angles provide a finer tune of thickness of stems. The preview does not do justice to the font, but I tested the thicknesses of stems in Illustrator—horizontals/verticals/diagonals. Each stem now is as close in thickness to other as possible. This really is an even stroke font[struction]. Other 2.0 features are also used (but may not be obvious at a glance). See that 'o'? That's just one quarter curve created and then rotated three additional times. Very handy. The horizontal and vertical flips were used extensively throughout the creation process. Quarter-ing of angled bricks became necessary when it became evident that the only even thickness of a stroke is possible at x.5 thickness when combined with a curve. This meant that each vertical/horizontal stem is 5.5 bricks thick, which in turn made it necessary to use angled bricks at a quarter scale, which, of course, was made possible with the Make Composite feature. The only place I couldn't get the brick I wanted was in 4 (zoom in to see the slight misshape). It was a joy to work on this fontstruction to get what I really wanted almost every time. Great update, Rob. Cheers!
As long as I am on the soap box: What's up with diaeresis? I understand the reason for their existence, but are they the best possible way to handle various additional sounds? Also, are they even necessary? For example, café in French means a particular thing. But does cafe (without the e with the grave on it) mean something else? If not, wouldn't the French automatically know how to properly pronounce café (with or without acute on the e) the correct way whichever 'e' is used? It helps in the pronunciation for the uninitiated but are languages really designed for the novice? There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but they cover the gamut of up to 44 different sounds (according to some). Improbable as it may seem, it does not stop people to choose the correct pronunciation of letters. Hop has one sound for the 'o' and adding an 'e' at the end does not add the 'e' sound at the end of 'hop' but changes the sound of the middle 'o'. Convention. Sure. What I am trying to get at is that written script functions much better with distinct shapes without the flow-interrupting addition of the diaeresis. So unless there are two words spelled the same with the only difference being the kind of diacritic on the letters, the diacritic are redundant, no? If there is a real need for certain letter+diacritic combo, wouldn't a new shape be better? There are no shortage of additional shapes in the scripts of other languages. Can't do without an 'é'? Replace it with, say, 'ө' from the Greek script...or whatever. It bears repetition: What's up with diaeresis?