My final entry in the competition. Inspired by Mazey, zlabyrinths eYe/FS, and wavelength. Each glyph has its own maze, and each maze connects with the next. Tilde ~ and low line _ connect words, grave ` closes beginnings and ends, and the left and right arrows < > are for the start and end. There are also some alternates in Extended Latin A. Suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks!
UPDATES:
04/06/14 The whole font has been updated to be one brick taller, and thus properly fit onto a grid. Also, some characters have been redesigned. V2.0
05/13/14 All punctuation has been modified to continue a word maze. V2.1
07/05/14 1000 downloads! Hooray! As a 'thank you', I've completed more of More Latin. V2.2
08/22/14 I've made the accents part of the maze. I've also changed a few characters, and added Œ and œ. V2.3
08/04/15 Added Polish support with Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ś, Ź, and Ż. Tweaked a few characters as well, and added a crossbar to the ð. V2.4
06/18/16 Added support for multiple languages with more Cyrillic chars and punctuation. Also tweaked a few chars.
An experiment based on: "What if an 8 color wheel was a letter O?" A work in progress just to bring up the potential of the new update. These colors are just rainbow colors and were not inspired from LGBT flag.
Hello again! Here's someting I started dabbling with years ago, but never finished or published. Fontstruct bricks and functions have evolved since then so I decided to give the ‘font’ a facelift and make it a little more complete (still no plethora of glyphs but I'm ok with it for now). Circus wild west meets casino and slot machines. Gambling, gunpowder, acrobats and jesters. Wash down with tequila.
Eclectic font. You can even make a led T-shirt for a party. Cyrillic caps while remaining eclectic refers to its Soviet past.
See more: Dalliance
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/987964/grand_hyperion
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/305748/fs_burtonesque
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1123407/medieval_robots
https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/devinne/ornamental-regular
This is a clone of KuliboniPlum 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!