Plum Blossom

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.

- 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!

Pencil shaped letters. That edgy transition of color should be a gradient, but it works for now. A ColorComp submission.

Pipe style font that's been started a year ago along with KD Kubr. Finally got myslef into finishing main letters. Still in progress so you might see some errors here and there.

A nonogram font. Some variation between uppercase/lowercase letters, alternative 2/7 on < >, and an extra Y on ^. I originally made this in a 5x5 grid, but there were too many glyphs with multiple solutions, so I had to remake the whole thing. (You can still see the original style in the small numbers)

Had quite a bit of fun with this blueprint inspired font for the competition, numbers have been incorporated to best measure glyph length, angles and so forth. Please enjoy~

[Aa]: Argentina, Australia

[Bb]: Brazil, Bangladesh

[Cc]: China, Canada

[Dd]: Germany, Denmark

[Ee]: Spain, Ethiopia

[Ff]: France, Finland

[Gg]: Greece, Ghana

[Hh]: Hungary, India

[Ii]: Italy, Indonesia

[Jj]: Japan, Jamaica

[Kk]: South Korea, Kenya

[Ll]: Latvia, Lithuania

[Mm]: Mexico, Malaysia

[Nn]: Norway, Netherlands

[Oo]: Oman, Austria

[Pp]: Poland, Pakistan

[Qq]: Qatar, Guatemala

[Rr]: Russia, Romania

[Ss]: Sudan, Saudi Arabia

[Tt]: Turkey, Thailand

[Uu]: United States, Ukraine

[Vv]: Venezuela, Vietnam

[Ww]: Belarus, Sweden

[Xx]: United Kingdom, Israel

[Yy]: Yemen, Iceland

[Zz]: Zambia, Zimbabwe

[0]: South Africa, [1]: Estonia, [2]: Nigeria, [3]: Ireland, [4]: Czech Republic, [5]: United Arab Emirates, [6]: Democratic Republic of the Congo, [7]: Philipines, [8]: Iran, [9]: New-Zealand

[.]: Switzerland, [,]: Nepal

[?]: Cuba, [!]: Myanmar

[@]: Madagascar, [_]: Kazakhstan, [#]: Portugal, [*]: Colombia

I was looking for an excuse to play around with color layers, so I colorized one of my old Dingbot designs.

Just a small project based on old punchcard encoding.

Use { and } to start and end the message.

Abakus FS, a font that allows ample abacus representation.

<highercase unfinished>

Put a smile on your night. A happy Halloween to everybody! PS: Take a look to the lowercase, please, Someone is waiting for you...

As you see, this is not a conventional font, it's more like a little picture game. Typing pairs of letters you can see some figures: AB = Dog, CD = Bockwurst, EF = Car, GH = Factory, IJ = Bike, KL = Truck, MN = Frankfurter, OP = Pinocchio, QR = Birthday Cake. But what happens if you write ASSSSB?... And with the others?... Try it and enjoy!

Basic piano chords. Not sure if this is useful as a font, but I wanted to try something different.

Ailurophilia FS is a heavy display font shaped like heavy cats.

Ailurophilia means an affinity to cats.

FS stands for FontStruct, of course.

WIP for indefinte time :) But at least I found a suitable name for this experiment, Sushi is sushi but Sushilka means dryer in Russian.

WIP. This is a specially designed (but unfinished) font for this Christmas greeting with my best-best-best wishes to all of you, dear long-distance friends. And my family and I send you with this our enormous hope for the next 2022 to be much better for every one of the huge group of people who friendly use FontStruct. Be happy wherever you are and whenever you can. Warm hugs. ❤️❤️❤️! PS: Better see at big size.

Lowercase "o" started it all.

a(b)cd / e(f)gh / i(j)kl / m(n)op / q(r)st / u(v)wx

sample pic = bbbbb bbbbb bbbbb bbbbb bbbbb

2003 Aug 14

So the idea behind this one is that as you type you're creating a city scene.  The spaces are empty intersections.  The slash marks are slightly askew telephone poles.  The quotation marks are flocks of birds.  Etc.  From a distance it can be a bit illegible.  It's primarily meant for large letters or close up scrutiny.

architect - @ for full house, _ for empty house.

Don't worry, this is not a font, this is a picture game. Please, type any uppercase character in the user input window from A to T, then the same character but in the lowercase and then press the space before repeat the operation with other character that you want: Aa (space) Bb (space) Cc (space)... And... Surprise! Here you are my crazy pixel friends. After this, you can mix the characters and play a little bit more creating some funny "monsters": Bd (space) Hp (space) Pt... There are 400 variations to try. Enjoy them!

Let not the death of our elders be the demise of our ways of life. Let not the passage of time be measured in the passing of languages beyond all living memory.

Based on the Lakota orthography © 1982 Leroy C. Curley.

Extended character and symbol set by William Leverette

04.04.20. Lockdown 2020. 
Lockdown doesn't mean you cant level up.
It doesn't have to feel like you're behind bars.
It could be used as a time for personal transformation.
Affecting your outer world by expressing your inner world.
Fonstructing can be a meditative experience.
It all depends on your perspective.
You can fontstruct as a way of creating cool fonts,
or you can see it as creative expression that forms letters,
that spawn words, that serve as the visualization of thought
that manifests deeper meaning. Or not.
Peace, Health, and Wellness to all!

Fontstuff:

Uppercase = worn down brick walls
Lowercase = plain walls
| = 4 bars
- = 1 bar
( & ) = Bent pipes open/close
{ & } = Scaled pipes open/close

My lycanthropic and "Spaghetti Western" font. Hope you like it.

The culmination of 11 years of cinematic comic book bliss, alas, it is the opening day of the highly anticipated Avengers End Game. This is a tribute to almost all of the characters taking part in the most monumental achievement of interconnected storylines in the Marvel Cinematic Universe spanning 22 films. The list of pixellated heroes:
A: Antman
B: Black Panther
C: Captain America
D: Doctor Strange
F: Falcon
G: Gamora
H: Hulk
I: Iron Man 
M: Captain Marvel
N: Nick Fury
P: Spiderman (Peter Parker)
Q: StarLord (Peter Quill)
R: Rocket Racoon
S: Scarlet Witch
T: Thor
V: Vision
W: War Machine
b: Black Widow
d: Drax the Destroyer
g: Groot
h: Hawkeye
m: Mantis
n: Nebula
w: Winter Soldier
!: Hulk Smash again!
...maybe more to come...?

This started out as a joke, but it just kept getting more interesting to me as it was developed. 
Completed countertops can contain at least two pieces: an uppercase and lowercase letter. The left side of the counter starts with a capital letter, which has a corresponding right side piece in the same lower case letter. Numbers and Shifted Numbers contain center pieces that can be typed in multiples. 
The <>, [], and {} make special faux perspective counter pairs. Use sparingly. 

Creatures and Phantasy Insects

Numerous single brick pattern fillers and connectors, ready for you to use/clone/copy/change and put into your own designs or whatever.

All patterns are designed to work as a selection fill. So in other words: the patterns will always look the same regardless of the dimensions of your selected area!

They come in a wide range of styles such as: Retro, Tile, Seemless, Textile, Composite, Glitch, Minimalism

All bricks are stored and saved in the custom brick pallet.

Enjoy!

Some sprites to go with my video game inspired Fontstruct, Epyx..