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4278 5732693 Published: 5th November, 2010
Last edited: 6th November, 2010
Created: 4th November, 2010
This is my first FontStruction while currently studying graphic design at Bristol UWE. Lots of experimentation solely using paints; quick hand movements and flicks to produce a messy, unrefined effect. Working in less than 1 second for each letter (with real paints), used as reference. Inspired by East Asian calligraphy.

Brush

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3475 148253299 Published: 23rd January, 2014
Last edited: 26th October, 2017
Created: 19th January, 2014

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.

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3078 2640556 Published: 1st March, 2009
Last edited: 29th June, 2009
Created: 27th February, 2009
Inspired by "Inbetween"

Alternate b,d,p

3D

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2664 5144309 Published: 4th August, 2009
Last edited: 1st August, 2009
Created: 27th July, 2009
The letters can easily be made more legible. But it gets to be FUN & a-MAZE-d. Every letter/word has a solution. 4 types of spaces: space bar, @, #, %. Try it.

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2419 7756673 Published: 6th November, 2009
Last edited: 4th January, 2010
Created: 29th October, 2009
I produced this for my "communicating with words" first year module on the BA(Hons) Graphic Design course at UWE Bristol, England. It pays homage to Ralph Steadman and is a true testament to what you can do on fontstruct, if you’re willing to spend a week in front of a computer in your underpants. Recently reviewed on P.C World Downloads www.laurieguy.co.uk

Grunge

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2344 162691 Published: 22nd April, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 22nd April, 2008
only capitals. not finished yet.

Optical (33)

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2165 2421842 Published: 10th March, 2007
Last edited: 12th April, 2018
Created: 10th March, 2007
This is the first ever FontStruction. A simple pixel font based on a 6 x 8 matrix of squares.

Pixel Optimized

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1728 107116 Published: 28th February, 2008
Last edited: 11th May, 2009
Created: 28th February, 2008
Based on form studies by Armin Hoffman.

Heavy

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1647 95649 Published: 13th March, 2009
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 27th February, 2009
I made this FontStruction for artists who beginning pixel-art. This font is a template for pixel-art. The matrix of the letter: 3×5×1. Optimal font size: 64 ptThis is a clone

3D

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1568 31268852 Published: 27th February, 2014
Last edited: 13th February, 2015
Created: 23rd February, 2014
Something as simple and boring as a monospaced, octagonal, sans serif font. But it has great unicode support!

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1560 2449316 Published: 5th March, 2021
Last edited: 3rd February, 2012
Created: 26th October, 2011
A completely different design direction from my other fontstruction "Shadowman" & "Letterpress".

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1532 82206 Published: 2nd April, 2008
Last edited: 4th September, 2011
Created: 2nd April, 2008
Updated in October 2009 with better spacing and making use of new bricks, as well as support for Turkish.

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1515 64135194 Published: 31st May, 2013
Last edited: 24th September, 2014
Created: 21st May, 2013
Not quite a script, but definitely connected...

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Helvetica®

Some fonts you just can’t FontStruct.
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1489 3942279 Published: 29th July, 2009
Last edited: 4th September, 2009
Created: 10th May, 2009
I intended to make some sort of an M.C.Escher tribute here. I'm sorry this isn't very complete and far from being perfectly well done, but it somewhat started to make me feel dizzy...;) And even though I'm not very convinced by this, I don't think I'd come up with a way better execution soon.

I hope for Mr Escher that there are better tribute fonts for him out there! He'd definitely deserve it...

It was by the way funk_king's Impossible Alphabet that reminded me of this unfinished thing laying around in my messy unpublished fontstructions box, and made me take it out and finish it. (If you can call 42 characters "finished".)

Also check out Frodo7's Hommage à Escher, geneus1's IsoMatrix 3D, and funk_king's Soma for some other great Escher-esque fontcrafting!

Ribbon

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1221 168146 Published: 5th November, 2014
Last edited: 18th November, 2014
Created: 31st October, 2014
LevelRebel is a monospaced, 48-brick high, birds-eye view, horizontally layered, isometric pixelfont. The uppercase faces to the left and the lower case faces to the right. It could work as a font for a game with a retro 3d feel and something about mastering levels, climbing storeys, stacking towers or sliding bricks or bars.

3D

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1175 159719 Published: 21st February, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 21st February, 2008

Heavy

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1060 126252 Published: 26th October, 2009
Last edited: 2nd October, 2009
Created: 1st October, 2009
The ‘Sans Serious’ Series is a group of tribute typefaces meant to honor Dutch designer and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer.

Along with Wim Crouwel and Josef Albers, Jurrian Schrofer (1926 - 1990) was among the Bauhaus pioneers of grid-based modular typography and design.

Schrofer's work experimented with type, light, and color and focused on mathematical shapes and pattern.

From the book ‘Dutch Type’ by Jan Middendorp:

“Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily calledSans serious- but this was never his goal. ‘Is it necessary’, he wrote, ‘to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes’ Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms ‘made to measure’ as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, ‘Les textes sociologiques’ from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids.”

“In his booklet ‘Letters op maat’ (‘Type made to measure’, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven.”

Read more from ‘Dutch Type’.

Image from Letters op matt.

More images of Jurriaan Schrofer's work on Flickr:

Schrofer in Total Design book.

Cover for European Journal of Social Psycology

Museumjournaal, design Jurriaan Schrofer

Die Internationale Avant-Garde

Jurriaan Schrofer - Fodor catalog

Note: for all fonts in the ‘Sans Serious’ Series, the alphabet is the same for upper and lowercase.This is a clone of Sans Serious II

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966 1417263 Published: 10th August, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 10th August, 2008
this electricity
injected into me
emotions running over me
and when you're getting close
you touch my innermost
a feeling deep inside me knows
—"circuit breaker", röyksopp

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939 107542 Published: 26th April, 2008
Last edited: 11th March, 2011
Created: 26th April, 2008
Clone of Tristeak Ribbon, with endcaps and some tweaks. One character in this set is topologically different from all the others... see if you can find it!This is a clone of Tristeak Ribbon

Multiline

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928 875143 Published: 22nd May, 2008
Last edited: 23rd June, 2009
Created: 22nd May, 2008
Little experimental graffiti-style-font. Begin every word with an upper case letter, then write on with lower case letters. Use ) to end words, and add an asterik for some additional style... hope all ya graffiti bros out there like it!;)

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895 2276134 Published: 5th March, 2021
Last edited: 26th August, 2010
Created: 17th May, 2009
Dear Human, We have fused three flavours of cocoa product (available separately) to provide maximum stimulation of your tastebuds. Pay no mind to the fact that chocolate is fattening: we have no intention of using your species as a fuel source. Inspected by Chocobot CBX-77

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890 1264183 Published: 9th June, 2010
Last edited: 9th June, 2010
Created: 9th June, 2010
Based on a design I created for a video game package many years ago, but with some improvements.This is a clone of Spacerock Biline

Bauhaus inspired

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859 1033324 Published: 23rd February, 2009
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 6th August, 2008
A faithful recreation of the DOS / IBM PC System Font. Monospaced with very short descenders and thick font weight for better readability on low fidelity CRT displays. Makes me want to optimize AUTOEXEC.BATs all over again. Including original "More Latin" characters and custom made "Extended Latin A" characters for good international compatibility.

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839 5170204 Published: 7th August, 2009
Last edited: 13th September, 2012
Created: 6th August, 2009
This is a clone

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834 3578119 Published: 21st November, 2014
Last edited: 7th December, 2014
Created: 2nd November, 2014

This font was inspired by the works of Christophe Szpajdel (Lord of the Logos, 2010, Die Gestalten Verlag), as well as by the film trilogy and the following game titles (e.g. Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 2014) based on Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Given the game theme, and the 48 bricks vertical limit, I thought more or less around pixel art, or pixel fonts. This is my endeavour to make a spiky blackletter in Szpajdel's black metal style that evokes the terror of Mordor at pixel level. This font has been extensively tested for best kerning, yet some issues might have remained unresolved.

This is a clone

Grunge

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810 1429143 Published: 30th May, 2009
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 4th May, 2009
Inspired by minimum. This fontstruction employs a variation of the outstanding shading technique used by minimum on the bevel series. Thanks to meek and the Fontstruct staff for fixing the download.This is a clone

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800 49810 Published: 11th June, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 11th June, 2008
BBC Micro bitmapped font

Pixel Optimized

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761 2567182 Published: 25th May, 2009
Last edited: 24th August, 2012
Created: 23rd May, 2009
I filled it, kix. :)
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It appears as a clone because that's where it started but every character is built from scratch. kix' brilliant original is an understatement of perfection, using the least amount of bricks for such a grand effect. However, it left not much space inside for any kind of meaningful rendering. Had to quadruple each glyph in order to get enough brick space inside to get some effect going. In the process I came to appreciate the true brilliance of the design and the awesomeness of certain characters. G, for instance.
I have scaled everything up, but have not taken any liberties with the shapes—they are true to the original. If a certain glyph is off, it is due to my ineffective eye and not borne out of a desire to change the original. (Point it out, and I'll correct it). Hope you like it.
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I live in the third-world; it is summer (well, it is here). Consequently, unannounced power outages 2, 5, 8 times a day are standard operating procedure. While/when we have power, my ISP may not. Consequently, unannounced internet outages 3, 4, 7 times a day are standard operating procedure. Out of 24 hours, I get 3, 4 hours of internet access on a good day. Everything everywhere is UPS'd up the wazoo. Still, UPSes need power to recharge. I never know when the computer might shut down or lose the internet connection. Consequently, I have become a master S-pusher. Sorry for the server load, admins. :-)This is a clone

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740 20147198 Published: 26th November, 2011
Last edited: 9th November, 2012
Created: 8th April, 2009
I've worked on this for quite a while. I could only finish it now with the help of composit bricks.

3D

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728 1128921 Published: 4th October, 2012
Last edited: 9th October, 2012
Created: 1st October, 2012
My first font. I started it for the stencil competition, for fun, however it was extremely fascinating creating it :) Hope you like it!

Lineal

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723 49106300 Published: 15th July, 2010
Last edited: 3rd October, 2012
Created: 14th July, 2010
One of my old designs brought up-to-date with FS 2.0 I have changed the name from 'RM Albion Too' to 'RM New Albion' because, whilst I liked the word play of the former, I thought it was a tad trite (and a bit Anglo-centric).

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698 348527 Published: 24th November, 2009
Last edited: 25th November, 2009
Created: 14th November, 2009
My version of a Star Trek logo font. I only used Horizon as a guide when I couldn't find a good solution to a letter (e.g. Q). Looks good at pixel size.

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