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3 207216 Published: 30th May, 2025
Last edited: 1st June, 2025
Created: 16th May, 2025

Gob Pixi is an amalgamation of different experiments with colour, display type and visual effects throughout the years of working with a comfortable, personal design palette.

Having been obsessed with grain textures and primary + secondary colours throughout the start of 2020s, I was moved to translate that into typography after seeing Kilotype's Lofi Forest "fizzy-fying" an otherwise sharp-looking Roman/Serif.

Also, I have worked on a type project that got me to layer different coloured shadows and highlights above each other, so this is my attempt at translating that effect onto another typeface that I've shelved for quite a while now. (I happened to come up with something similar to Get Yourself Connected by chance and didn't know what to make do with it.)

3D

ColorComp (98)

3 1754720 Published: 14th May, 2022
Last edited: 11th June, 2022
Created: 14th May, 2022

Umbriel is a moon of Uranus. It is named after a character in Alexander Pope's poem "Rape of the Lock." DS = dotted serif

Dotted

5 1121314 Published: 22nd May, 2025
Last edited: 22nd June, 2025
Created: 16th May, 2025

Discoshar means Discoball

115 74727 Published: 7th June, 2013
Last edited: 8th June, 2013
Created: 4th June, 2013
For fun.

Pattern Fill

22 1115615 Published: 31st January, 2014
Last edited: 4th February, 2014
Created: 30th January, 2014
Somehow the idea for the T popped in my head. Next, I tried to imagine if the same overly bold and fragmented T can be translated to something like an A or S. Therefore, this was just an exercise in trying to fit the basic idea into all characters. Surprisingly, the whole thing came together within minutes. The rest of the time was spent in refinement.

6 197519 Published: 8th April, 2023
Last edited: 8th April, 2023
Created: 31st March, 2023

Third font in a series of three colour pixel experiments, made after reading Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type by Toshi Omagari. This one has a double shadow, which gives an extruded 3D effect at a smaller scale.

Shadow

0 238528 Published: 25th January, 2025
Last edited: 26th January, 2025
Created: 24th January, 2025

made this using my drawing tablet

i tried mimicking real ink as closely as possible

Pixel Optimized

Graffiti

2 1032115 Published: 4th June, 2022
Last edited: 6th June, 2022
Created: 20th May, 2022

Lux Aeterna: Eternal Light

Dotted

7 2524129 Published: 29th November, 2021
Last edited: 8th December, 2021
Created: 26th November, 2021

Pixel Slab

183 129819 Published: 11th October, 2014
Last edited: 11th October, 2014
Created: 1st October, 2014
See also, fs Stability (Turmoil)

Lineal

2 922925 Published: 5th July, 2015
Last edited: 5th July, 2015
Created: 16th June, 2015
Pixel, Serif, Fun, Heads, Text, Decorative, dbThis is a clone

39 1923046 Published: 30th July, 2012
Last edited: 31st July, 2012
Created: 27th July, 2012
db, simple, monospaced, Beate

104 318724 Published: 12th May, 2013
Last edited: 10th October, 2017
Created: 12th May, 2013

21 3221341 Published: 25th May, 2013
Last edited: 16th November, 2013
Created: 25th May, 2013
ScriptComp, db, backward, script

Handwritten

61 135910 Published: 12th March, 2013
Last edited: 11th March, 2013
Created: 10th March, 2013
I felt like doing something easy.

48 810411 Published: 10th December, 2012
Last edited: 10th December, 2012
Created: 11th October, 2012
Clone of fs Noise.This is a clone of fs Noise

Stencil (727)

69 98315 Published: 29th August, 2009
Last edited: 29th August, 2009
Created: 27th January, 2009
For use at pixel level.
Also works at 32pt×x, where x=1,2,4,8,etc.
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This font has been a long time in the making. The dots are such that the curved shapes and squared-off letters just would not resolve to an equal height no matter what I tried. Then after the mixed x-height that came about in yesterday's la Cross, it occurred to me to just let the letters be as tall as they wanted to be. It seems to work for some odd reason. Can someone please explain why it works?

Dotted

21 1020223 Published: 11th August, 2012
Last edited: 1st August, 2014
Created: 3rd August, 2012
Hibernation

344 1520725 Published: 31st August, 2014
Last edited: 20th January, 2015
Created: 26th August, 2014

Inspired bt the works of great Wim Crouwel and striped sports jerseys. Also a study in 45 degrees diagonals, happily provided by fontstructor and master Goatmeal. Basic latin support and a few ligatures. **UPDATE 19.11.2014 I worked out a few unbalanced characters and added ligatures. Hope you like it!

**UPDATE 2016: please check the new version under the name of Wim V2.

30 6522783 Published: 7th February, 2014
Last edited: 7th June, 2014
Created: 6th February, 2014
A simple modern triple inline deco. This is the small caps version.This is a clone

69 1310220 Published: 4th March, 2010
Last edited: 18th April, 2010
Created: 3rd March, 2010
—Chamfered ends to absorb machination imperfections

—Angled joints for embroidery tolerance

—Stenciled shapes for spray applications

—Distinctive glyphs for ease of recognition

—Special Yay!/Goal!/Touchdown! glyph to root the home teamThis is a clone

Sportscomp (33)

27 139022 Published: 30th January, 2015
Last edited: 20th September, 2018
Created: 30th January, 2015
I can't think why I did this ...

761 2567189 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

37 119015 Published: 25th January, 2013
Last edited: 29th January, 2013
Created: 7th January, 2011

111 43220133 Published: 3rd October, 2011
Last edited: 27th October, 2015
Created: 3rd October, 2011
Black, Stencil, db, BeateThis is a clone

56 2611547 Published: 4th March, 2012
Last edited: 30th September, 2015
Created: 2nd March, 2012
Clone of db Today v.1., Poster, Heads, Intros, Italic, Serif, db, BoldThis is a clone

76 217829 Published: 13th July, 2012
Last edited: 25th July, 2012
Created: 23rd June, 2012

Stencil font based on octagonal geometry. Oktogon: a busy crossroad in Budapest delineated by eight sides.

94 186840 Published: 5th March, 2011
Last edited: 19th March, 2011
Created: 4th March, 2011
Hi, there!

We (the place where I work) are attempting to brand ourselves because our field is getting a bit too crowded and we don't want to get lost in the clutter. In the process, we are exploring a lot of different styles. Not that we are unsure how we want to proceed or what our positioning will be, we want to ensure nothing obvious is overlooked. In the process, a lot of ideas are generated, some discarded outright while others —as long are they support the planned positioning— are pursued long enough to recognize if they are worth exploring further...or not.

Some letters from this font were developed as part of one of the proposed wordmark. Overall, it works without breaking any of our internally established rules. The problem is one of extensibility and adaptability for unforeseen future needs which this font is prone to cause owing to its personality. The logo work was done in Illustrator, of course. However, to see if the typeface has potential beyond the few glyphs of the wordmark (and not in small part due to its modular nature), I worked out the remainder of the letters here in the fontstructor. :-)

I'd appreciate it if I could have your constructive criticism on each or any of the glyphs and how they could be improved. Specifically, I am trying to avoid awkwardness in the coming together of any two letters. As you can see, it's very much a work-in-progress.

Danke, Merci, Thank you, Shukria.

Hexagonal

103 139135 Published: 24th September, 2011
Last edited: 21st July, 2014
Created: 11th September, 2011
Based on the logo for http://www.thememagazine.com/.This is a clone

Square

V09 (13)

112 145527 Published: 3rd September, 2011
Last edited: 14th September, 2011
Created: 10th February, 2010
This fontstruction was started a long time ago. Yesterday, being bored (or something), I randomly clicked on page 7 of My FontStructions and found this. Being bored (or something), I clicked Edit.

Back in February 2010, I was able to take this fs only so far and came to a halt owing to geometry and FontStructor limitations. Those limitations, for the most part, seemed to have disappeared in the intervening time. I must've felt encouraged as I've been working on this fs all day today. As it turns out, when you work on something long enough, something will emerge. Et voilà. (I jest. ;)

Oh the soap box syndrome!

Visual aesthetics require two elements, namely, art and design. Let's examine each, shall we, the better to understand whence this came from and to what purpose.

Art has as many meanings as there are people giving them. For me, art is that visual that appeals to one, the stress being on 'one', and serves no practical purpose. Design, on the other hand, by definition*, must serve some purpose, must be reasonably attractive to those for who it is intended, and must stay within the limitation (whether explicit or implicit) of all that is (or will be) involved.

This and every other fontstruction, being visual in nature, has an element of art in it. Keeping the above art definition in mind, and as far as this fs is concerned, the art was my personal aspiration to try to do a diagonal stem of the A and the M and have the rest of the letters in such formation so that they fit like a glove with the A and M (without any effort on the user's part — but that jumps ahead to design). The February 2010 version of the FontStructor allowed me to achieve that very well. The art part was a start (yes, sorry, I couldn't resist the rhyme).

In my experience, any visual thing, no matter how simple or complex; no matter how involved or not; how unique or generic; how &c. and &c. may be termed art as if any one person appreciates it, it is art, albeit to that person only. So, I am satisfied how this fs looks, so the art is done. Also as per my personal experience, design is a much harder, difficult, involved element of getting something done right that also requires appropriate technical know-how to see it to fruition. The February 2010 version of the FontStructor did not allow the 'fit like a glove without user intervention' part. This morning when I started working on this fs, the September 2011 version of the FontStructor allowed me to do almost all that I wanted it to. (I say 'almost' because there were one or two custom bricks I required that I was unable to achieve, quite possibly due to my own inability).

The design confine [—if art gets a rhyme, so shall design—], with every letter overlapping just so, required quite a lot of geometric manipulation (not particularly apparent) to make sure any two letters fitted in properly. It got tedious quick fast in-a-hurry typing out manual kerning pairs (AM, ST, &c.). I had to type out all kerning pairs (AB, AC…RI, RJ, RK…SM, SN, SO…VS, VT, VY…ZZ…&c.) in Word (utilizing handy Replace functionality to speed kerning pair creation) and test every possible pair (even ones that are likely never to be used in reality—QK, for instance).

This being a design exercise, there had to be a purpose. My thinking was, staying within the limitations created by the art part, the font should work as an instant logo delivery system. Type a word in fs Instant—and, hey presto!, Logo (a gogo). It’s up to you to decide if I succeeded.

PS: I have no idea what ‘à gogo’ means. ;-)

*Gregg Berryman

Striped

53 3310567 Published: 28th September, 2012
Last edited: 19th July, 2014
Created: 26th September, 2012
StencilComp, Stencil, Mix, Black, db Beate

Unicase

0 919331 Published: 27th June, 2014
Last edited: 22nd September, 2014
Created: 26th June, 2014
In the case of 7-pixel-tall characters, one row of dead pixels is added (stragetically). ;)

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Gob Pixi

Umbriel DS

Discoshar

fs Hote-Zyd

fs GRID

shadowing

fs right about now

Lux Aeterna

db Gildas

fs Stability (Flux)

db Gertrude

db Como

fs go to sleep

db Lucky

fs SHŌGUN

fs Noise II

fs Dry Flat

Hibernation

Wim Gestreept

NCD Deconium SC Black Serif Inlines

fs GO TEAM!

Shifted

fs mostly harmless

fs Blocky

db Backjumps

db Today v.2.

Oktogon Stencil

fs WIP

fs Rehash [Monoish]

fs Instant [Logos À Gogo]

db Smoothie

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