011616. Oops. This one was supposed to be released when it was created. Somehow it got lost. Anyway, it was an experiment with smoothed out diagonals, which was difficult before the brick nudging feature. Now it its easy. So more improvments added. Here was my original text in 2010. Old links were broken, I can't add links anymore...?
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Created from scratch, but inspired by will.i.ૐ's WPA Go Thin, which was inspired by Stewf's WPA Gothic. Not as much an in depth character study as William's, but delving deeper into the concept of smoothing out all hard edged corners, especially the transitional connections between all diagonal lines to their horizontal or vertical counterparts. This direction forced me to dig deep to figure out if it was possible to create a smoothly ramped curve. After chiseling out multitudinous variations of composite combinations, I came up with this solution. Then I pat myself of the back and gave myself a cookie. The technique is also employed on my Escapade, and Streamlyne fonts. As usual, I like to leave these techniques as Easter eggs for everyone to discover for themselves using their own creativity. Sometimes its inspiring just to know such a thing is possible. But let me know if you can't figure it out. Press Shift+PXL on the preview to zoom in and check it out.
This is a cloneSee more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/333234/periculum
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/blackletra/ofelia-std/
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1646721/stf-lullo-stitch
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/685591/advancer_lite_1
https://www.behance.net/gallery/27010917/Pobeda
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/206416/pinball_blizzard
https://creativemarket.com/Etewut/1710681-Laser-Dots
https://etc-nyc.com/project/brooklyn-dot-font/
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/88351/fs_retro_electro
Another optical experiment, testing border areas. Sorry if sometimes it's a bit hard to read and it shakes your vision, but that was the idea. It has only been possible using the colour options available to FontStruct Patrons. Thanks once again to Big Rob Meek. PS: "2 in 1 font", the black version of the SVG file also can works like an usual B/W font.
A jazzy, unicase, unique typeface!
i am posting this late at night, becuase i know due to time zones, it's morning right now. So, here i am at 1:14am, trying to post this late at night, so people wide awake somewhere else see this!
Uppercase font with some alternates in the lowercase zone. You can find an extra third "S" in the "t" glyph. See also zhellbar, the solid colour version.
This is a clone of zhellbar Col eYe/FSSomething that I made. Part of the Roto Family.
Currently supports:
English, Jamaican, Irish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sami (Northern), Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Esperanto
Update Log
Current version:v3.0
v0.1: Basic characters.
v0.2: Added basic punctuation.
v0.3: Added more punctuation.
v0.4: Changed letters S, s, Q.
v0.5: Added ^ and ` .
v1.0: Smoother curves, changed letters S, s, Q, R, r, K, k.
v1.1: Added Á, À, Â, Å, Ä, Æ.
v1.2: Added Ç, È, É, Ê, Ë, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ð.
v1.3: Added Ñ, Ò, Ó, Ô, Õ, Ö, ×, Ø.
v1.4: Added Ù, Ú, Û, Ü, Ý, Ÿ, Þ, ß.
v1.5: Added à, á, â, ã, ä, å, æ.
v1.6: Added ç, è, é, ê, ë, ì, í, î, ï.
v1.7: Added ð, ñ, ò, ó, ô, õ, ö, ÷, ø.
v1.8: Added ù, ú, û, ü, ý, þ, ÿ.
v2.0: Added Ā, ā, Ă, ă, Ą, ą.
v2.1: Added Ć, ć, Ĉ, ĉ, Ċ, ċ, Č, č.
v2.2: Added Ď, ď, Đ, đ, Ē, ē, Ĕ, ĕ, Ė, ė.
v2.3: Added Ę, ę, Ě, ě, Ĝ, ĝ, Ğ, ğ, Ġ, ġ, Ģ, ģ.
v2.4: Added Ĥ, ĥ, Ħ, ħ, Ĩ, ĩ, Ī, ī, Ĭ, ĭ.
v2.5: Added Į, į, İ, ı, IJ, ij.
v2.6: Added Ĵ, ĵ, Ķ, ķ, ĸ, Ĺ, Ļ, ļ.
v2.7: Added Ņ, ņ, Ň, ʼn, Ŋ, ŋ, Ō, ō, Ŏ, ŏ.
v2.8: Added Ő, ő, Œ, œ, Ŕ, ŕ, Ŗ, ŗ, Ř, ř.
v2.9: Added Ś, ś, Ŝ, ŝ, Ş, ş, Š, š, Ţ, ţ, Ť, ť, Ŧ, ŧ.
v2.10: Completed Latin Extended-A.
v3.0: Started Latin Extended-B.
Inspired by the works of regular_one. Unlike most fonts I've released recently, many of the glyphs had to be modified or even redone from scratch.
- M, W, m, w, @, #, %, <, >, ~, and the circumflex above accented letters were all too wide and had to be condensed;
- I, f, i, j, l, r, and t were all too narrow and were expanded a bit, mostly through the careful application of serifs;
- K, M, W, X, Y, v, w, y, 7, /, and \ all had ugly mixes of angles that needed to be redesigned;
- N, *, (, and ) were completely redesigned, and many more touched up, to fit better with the rest of the font.
Most of the edits made were not possible before nudging. It's still not perfect, but it's much better than it was before, and I'm proud of how much it has "grown up". Of course, suggestions and critiques are encouraged. Thanks and enjoy!
STF GROOTESK Pro ― Contemporary geometric grotesque
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A clean and geometric grotesque sans-serif typeface that is equipped with tons of extended professional editorial typographic features,
such as:
Multilingual support in 3 script writing systems for 113 languages, glyph alternative forms, stylistic ligatures, accents and punctuation marks, symbols, technical, ordinal, pictographs, additional dingbats.
15164 stored kerning-pair and many other professional features!
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[ TECHNICAL ]
■ Metrics(in square grid units)
5.0-Em / 0.5-Stroke
2.0 : 2.0-Brick Size Filter
Em-Square: 5.0
Cap-Height: 3.25
X-Height: 2.0
Ascent: 0.875
Descent: 1.0
Overshoots: 2 × 0.0625 Top/Bottom - (uppercase only)
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■ [ ADDITIONAL EXTRA IMPORTANT RELEASE NOTES ]
Previously published as a (non-Pro)-version with the same name.
But when that version eventually corrupted, it rendered it useless.
And after several repair attempts the innitial isolated "FS-editor" native
brick corruption eventually was fixed! But from this point onward all theFontStruct-generated-*.TTF-files downloaded from this particular FontStruction delivered a broken TrueType-font file, that upon its installation process resulted in having a error. Leaving me, or anyone for that matter who had downloaded it, unable to get it or its updates installed.
So after unsuccesfull struggling for a while I noticed that the cloned version didn't generate a broken *.TTF-file. So I decided to terminated the original FontStruction and delete it.
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■ [ DESIGN INFORMATION ]
The main inspiration came from those early to mid-20th century geometric grotesques, and visual environment of that era.
Although the characters were mostly geometrically constructed, and remain as close as possible to basic geometry, "STF GROOTESK Pro" includes a blend of stylish hints of hand-crafted lettering influences and intentional irregularities in order to tribute those classical geometric designs.
For extra additional emphasis the design tries to take advantage of a rather unusual vertical Uc>Lc proportion, with ascender parts of the 'Lc' characters sitting well bellow the cap-height, making the 'Uc' appear strikingly taller in comparison. Essentially providing the uppercase with a more "Condensed" feel. Some of the other characteristics of the design are it's sturdy and stylish yet clean presence, with little to no contrast, and it comes in bold style only. But to compensate for the lack of extra weight versions there was some serious time invested into additional testing and optimizing the entire typeface. So it is super well mastered and therefor extremely versatile.
That being said..
Looks can be deceptive at quick first glance, and this indeed might appear as being a very basic looking design. Even though this in fact is far from being just that other basic looking display sans, nor your next boring geometric grotesque!
From a FontStructor-perspective point-of-view I recommend to take a more ‘close-up’ view of the design's finer details. This creates a better understanding and greater appreciation for the extreme level of complexity that is present in both form and function.
Zooming-in on some of the letters would reveal the font's subtle, yet nuanced diversity of that 'previously' hidden underlying personal characteristics that usually remain invisible in text format at smaller point size. Now suddenly just its overall care for finer detail and overall quality within every bit of the design, the tons of custom shaping, stroke transitions and additional smoothing will gradually emerge as zoom levels get ever deeper. At its deepest level it will even shed some light on the surgical stuff that mostly works invisibly and without the awareness of its reader.
A display typeface at it's core, still it performs equally great in very small body-print text or web design application, as it does too in larger format for headings, ads or branding.
Thus providing, this very function efficient and reliable work-horse,
a truly genuine "one style fits all" typeface powerhouse.
And there its no question whether this could hand out "a 'one-punch' K.O." of a Headliner, thats obvious. But this unyielding bumpy behemoth just as well takes u for the long run, effortlessly telling you fascinating stories.
Especially well cared for optimized rendering on a computer display device, and deliver simple yet versatile seemless digital typeset material.
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■ [ SPECIAL NOTE ]
A big thanks and 50% of the design credits for the lowercase 's' go out to elmoyenique
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■ [ "Pro" VERSION EXTRA'S ]
The new "Pro" version update for GROOTESK utilizes several TrueType smart-font features and control characters to map two or more glyphs for combining glyph composition.
This is another clone of Monkey (my monospace lanky font); it should be very similar to the original except for the lower x-height and the added accented characters (More Latin/Latin-1, Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B, and now Even More Latin/Latin Extended Additional). It is 16 blocks tall and 6 blocks wide; all letters without diacritics are at most 9 above the baseline and at most 3 below, but the accents push the height of a letter up by 3 blocks (or rarely 4), and the box drawing characters extend even higher, to 16 blocks from descender to the highest point. This font uses the FontStruct 2x2 filter method with plenty of composite and stacked bricks, which lets the curves look good at large sizes while remaining sharp on the screen at normal sizes. Mandrill will look strange in the FontStruct preview if you zoom in or out, but if you download it, it will look sharp at size 16 or 12 (depending on the program).
This is a clone of Monkey