Favorite FontStructions from fontain (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“Enfant” by Morusque

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:40:31 +0000

“Budino Kiri” by Em42

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:45:38 +0000

A kirigami font: Budino gliphs with cutting and folding lines for creating kirigami text.

“Budino” by Em42

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:14:35 +0000

Another fat-heavy-black-squarish font, but with little slab serifs thanks to FontStruct 2.0 features.

“NCD Amphibian Stencil” by djnippa

Thu, 20 May 2010 04:12:44 +0000

I decided to make a stencil version of my NCD Amphibian font.
I didn't have to change too much.
Slightly influenced by Afrojet's superb Whoopee which reminded me of NCD Amphibian when I first saw it.
There's still some tweaking to be done, so all comments welcomed.

“Bromance” by Em42

Wed, 19 May 2010 19:59:26 +0000

Sturdy, yet smooth, connected script font with swashes.

“Whoopee ” by afrojet

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:05:44 +0000

Because you can never have enough ball terminals...

“Codename: Bauhaus” by geneus1

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:48:20 +0000

Two years already!?! Time flies when you're having fun.
Based on the FontStruct Logo that could have been. ;-)

“Lyrical OF” by funk_king

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:31:26 +0000

inspired by Redonda and the other excellent fonts that have been done in this style. this is my first dot font. i searched to see if there were any italics and didn't find any; but they may be hiding here somewhere. started with lc just to see if i could do a basic set. then went for the uc and decided to make it a little more fancy or lyrical, if you will. then one thing led to another and i can't believe i did the whole basic latin :) i thought about waiting to release it, but changed my mind. this was fun and allows for the visualization of curves which really can't be done in FS. but still, i guess it's not like the real thing. oh, well :)

“Brutal Exchange of a Smug for Some Faith” by afrojet

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:52:25 +0000

A play on brickstacking, 'Brutal' is an experiment in creating a one brick fontstruction for multilayered screen printing. To use this font, you simply need to layer the uppercase alphabet on top of (or underneath) the lowercase alphabet (see below for a sample).

Obviously, it doesn't look like much in the Fontstruct preview.

The inspiration for this typeface came about when I was putting together this Flickr gallery of modular multi-colored lettering.

The first 25 downloads are all mine. It was a hard one to test.

“Sans Serious I” by afrojet

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:21:30 +0000

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 called Sans 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.

“Hommage à Escher” by Frodo7

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:25:43 +0000

This is my homage to the late Dutch master. I tried to capture the impossible geometry, sense of space, and even the colours of his works. You can see and download the new v2 here:

Hommage a Escher v2

and

Hommage a Escher v2 extLat

“Geo Extended” by jlb

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:08:00 +0000

Clone of Geometro.

“Les Bains” by Em42

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:24:12 +0000

Based on the lettering used for the signs in Les Bains des Docks, by one of the architect I like most.

See the font in use here.

“Circle Cult” by Tobias Sommer (shasta)

Thought I might just also join the party of 2.0 curves. This is based on an attempt to come as close as possible to a perfect circle, trying to beat Gene in the competition for the most accurate circle before he pumps out another of his miracles...;) The "o" of this font is in that respect my entry to the competition. Just made it into a whole lowercase set for fun...

I suggest everyone who has his own circle for the competition somewhere in a font, tags it with "circle competition". Absolute accuracy shouldn't be the only criteria; if you manage to get an accurate circle on a small grid size, it should be rewarded as well. Mine has a 20 pixel stroke width and a 116 diameter, so I'm sure smaller solutions are also possible.

Due to its pretty large grid size this is getting dangerously close to the limits of the preview widget, so be patient when previewing it.

By the way: djnippa's swiss army knife of composite bricks came in very handy here. Thanks!