97116322
Published: 14th October, 2012
Last edited: 14th October, 2012
Created: 13th October, 2012
Inspired by toy race track construction sets. Although this technically qualifies as a stencil, you better have a laser cutter to deal with it.
Zoom in by Shift-clicking the PXL button to view the deets. All lowercase characters, but the caps are actually wider. It looks simple, but there's some advanced things going on to make this work in the 1.5 filter setting.
Special Characters to connect/extend letters:
_ = baseline connector
- = t-bar connector
/ = ascender connector
; = dip right connector
= = middle-e connector
\ = descender connector
This is a clone
95176722
Published: 7th April, 2012
Last edited: 7th April, 2012
Created: 7th April, 2012
dm 06
This is real minimalism, folks. I suggest pixel size for as much legibility as you can squeeze out of this one. Try large sizes for a cryptic effect. This font was made with no filters and three bricks, hence the name Subfour.
For neurone_error there is the cloned legible version.
93713824
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
85138121
Published: 5th November, 2012
Last edited: 6th November, 2012
Created: 4th November, 2012
I know, there are plenty of similar fonts :) But it's just fun making smth like this using FS. Thx & Enjoy!
84128620
Published: 20th January, 2014
Last edited: 21st January, 2014
Created: 19th January, 2014
2nd inline font competition entry. Be careful, this might damage your eyes :) Thanks and enjoy!
82187616
Published: 11th October, 2012
Last edited: 11th October, 2012
Created: 30th July, 2012
Here goes the 3rd entry. Very simple, but I hope you like it. Thanks & Enjoy!
7798734
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?
76116919
Published: 2nd November, 2012
Last edited: 20th November, 2012
Created: 2nd November, 2012
Used new house bricks for this updated version. Clonable. Thanks!This is a clone of Lenta