Favorite FontStructions from Alessandro Petta (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“Zebroid” by Frodo7

Sat, 10 May 2014 16:09:05 +0000

Three dimensional letters look as if carved out of blocks of diagonally layered black and white material.

“Sepulchrave” by intaglio

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:54:03 +0000

“RM Romantic Carved shadow” by p2pnut

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:30:57 +0000

Clone of RM Romantic Carved shadow.

“db Rocko v. 2” by beate

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:46:57 +0000

Clone of db Rocko v. 1., Serif, Text, Heads, db, Beate

“RM Basic Serif” by p2pnut

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:24:10 +0000

Another attempt at a classical serif face.

“Uptake” by aphoria

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:41:18 +0000

Special thanks to thalamic for reviewing and giving me suggestions for improvements. A modernish sans on a fairly small grid. The x-height is 7 grid squares, the cap height is 9 grid squares, and the ascenders & descenders on the lowercase go to 10 grid squares. All natural curves, mainly using the macaroni bricks.

“Detaile'” by Agent Demonic Ladybug

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:26:20 +0000

A stylized Industrial Sans on 2:2.

“Paradoxx” by geneus1

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:10:31 +0000

02012011. Large Scale, minimal brick usage. 90 grid spaces high, 26 brick shapes.

“RMWL Uncialic” by p2pnut

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:41:53 +0000

A work in progress

“fs Kronos” by William Leverette (will.i.ૐ)

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:46:26 +0000

filters: 2x2
x-height: 2.5 bricks
cap height: 3.5 bricks
# of unique composites: 220+

The ultra-low resolution of this grid may be difficult to grasp without cloning. Fontstruct’s logo has a nominal x-height of 3 bricks, by comparison.

The level of detail, control, and finesse possible in a given fonstruction depended mostly on resolution prior to the recent advent of stackable composites. Did you want it better? Make it bigger!

Brute force, now meet Elegance.

Instead of building individual glyphs hundreds of bricks tall, stackable composites allow us to design rich modular schemata hundreds of bricks deep. Using curved bricks at their largest scale, linear and curvilinear elements dynamically harmonize and oppose. As well, screen fonts can be effectively hinted (aside from notable lack of kerning controls) without sacrificing the integrity of joins and intersections. And the trapping possibilities, Oh the sweet sweet trapping possibilities...

Please, vote kindly and stay tuned for more :)

“Evity” by aphoria

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:37:07 +0000

2 x 2 filter with lots of compositing and stacking.

“RM Typerighter” by p2pnut

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:49:45 +0000

Based on those good old typewriters of yesteryear ... without the bother of ribbons to change, carbon copies or Tippex.

“Hunstruct” by afrojet

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:47:50 +0000

Hunstrüct is my first attempt at designing a contemporary blackletter typeface within Fontstruct. The typeface draws inspiration from the long tradition of German Fraktur styled blackletters. The name Hunstrück is taken from a mountain range in Germany called the Hunsrück. Primarily I was aiming to build a face that would work well as a display type for gig posters and larger headlines but as I reworked the typeface I tried to strike a balance between text and display.

Big thanks goes to djnippa for his hard work in spacing this font properly.

“Struktur” by theterrible

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:28:45 +0000