Fontstructions from FontStruct.com http://fontstruct.com Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:28:16 +0000
Robert Bringhurst, in his "Elements of Typographic Style", says that "type is idealized writing". With this in mind, i set out to create a font based on my own handwriting, except "idealized", in other words normalized it so that it becomes usable as type (within the contraints of the FS engine of course, making for a somewhat blocky font). This taught me a few interesting things about how apparently similar letters (b/d, p/q, etc.) are actually "drawn" very differently on paper, & for this reason should probably be designed differently when turned into actual type. So I don't know if this font is really usable -- for me it was more of an exercise but I'm happy with the result so far, so there it is.]]> http://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/281726/threethree_id Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:18:05 +0000
Warning: Work in progress. I'm just putting it up because it finally has a complete lowercase alphabet & so is actually usable in limited cases. The goal with this project is to create a humanist italic close to a Caslon, but within Fontstruct limitations. The x-height here is actually quite small: 6 blocks tall. This one seems to stand small point sizes surprisingly well. At larger sizes, it begins to look jagged but that's actually kind of nice. Of course kerning is all over the place. Not to mention the lack of capitals, punctuation, etc. There will be changes. Use with caution.]]> http://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/279389/threethree_italic Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:31:45 +0000
This is a quick font done in the style of "phunk" ansi art from the 1990s. Obviously there were no rounded corners in ansi but style-wise, it's pretty close I think. And it looks to me like a relatively "usable" font (in real life terms), other than the fact that it's not very readable. Oh well. Other than that, the font features lots of "special" characters (diacritics etc.), & text figures (aka old-style numerals), which is kind of silly since nobody in their right mind would compose an entire paragraph in this font. But there you have it.]]> http://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/279186/threethree_phunk_rounded Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:27:27 +0000
Just a first try with FontStruct. It's definitely not ready for prime time. But it's getting there.]]> http://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/279197/threethree_geosemiround Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:28:35 +0000