FontStructions from Kummaeno (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“Ordnance™” by Kummaeno

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:18:44 +0000

A rigid all-caps font, display/signage style. No curved shapes - I wanted something in the same spirit as "ITC Machine" (Designed by R Bonder and T Carnase in 1970). Thus with a little less compact approach, making it more versatile. Zoomed out, It’s like an edgy, bold and slightly condensed neo-grotesque.
(This fontstruction may be part of a client project, therefore it is fully licenced - at the moment. Hopefully I´ll make it downloadable under the fontstruct licence.)

“Slot Brigade” by Kummaeno

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:31:08 +0000

Hello again! Here's someting I started dabbling with years ago, but never finished or published. Fontstruct bricks and functions have evolved since then so I decided to give the ‘font’ a facelift and make it a little more complete (still no plethora of glyphs but I'm ok with it for now). Circus wild west meets casino and slot machines. Gambling, gunpowder, acrobats and jesters. Wash down with tequila.

“FS Rasterbator” by Kummaeno

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:10:41 +0000

A dotty raster halftone exercise. This was fun to struct--visual effects occur as you zoom in and out with the viewing slider. Other nice things happen when manipulating brick size with the filter function. To be continued...

“FS Space Opera” by Kummaeno

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:42:03 +0000

This is a close relative (big brother?) to "Megaspacer", one of my earlier fontstructions...

“Ubangi” by Kummaeno

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:08:40 +0000

This is a remix of an old Rian Hughes font called "Darkside". I boiled down the geometry, added slightly rounded outer corners--and a whole new set of upper case characters. (Hughes’ font had only lower case).

“Syncope” by Kummaeno

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:24:56 +0000

Youve seen the likes before ("FF HardSoul Ultra" by Donald Beekman or "Loudine" at pintassilgoprints.com). Constructivism with extreme bulk. Ultra-fat retro letter shapes--good to use as "containers" for photos/images…

“Alphane” by Kummaeno

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:02:25 +0000

Typical generic digital/future/LCD style. Very modular, very common & very boring. But in fact quite useful. There must be thousands of look-alikes out there but I had to make my own to get it with all the right details...

“Bonfire” by Kummaeno

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:03:46 +0000

A heavy metal variant. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

“Pistolera” by Kummaeno

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:13:34 +0000

A plaything. Retro spaceage computer spaghetti western hippie style. In progress...

“Estoc” by Kummaeno

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:21:31 +0000

A condensed "blackletterish" exercise. Oldstyle with modern FontStructed conformity. Works for short words in big sizes. HEAVILY inspired by the calligraphic fontworks of Bulgarian designers J Jelew and S Simow. One could say it´s more or less a FontStruct adaptation of their fine "Grant Deco", I have no problem with that. I wanted to see the "Grant" glyphs a little less "tall and hansome". ("Estoc" is an old type of long sword, similar to rapier or foil.)

“Pugilista” by Kummaeno

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:02:27 +0000

A heavy boxlike font. Exaggerated stroke weight and minimum space within the glyphs. An idea seen before ("Loudine" by Pintassilgo Prints, "GF Special 150" by Gigofonts), but I´ve tried to make something rigid-looking yet personal out of it. I kind of like thoose tiny miniature serifs, and haven´t had an opportunity to use them--until now...

“Arbour” by Kummaeno

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:29:49 +0000

Based on letters I saw in some fashion magazine many years ago. I found an old note with my hand-drawn sketches of it the other day, and realized it would be perfect for FontStruct. Based on a simple 3x6 grid and very few brick-shapes. Kind of organic and playful letters anyway..

“Bayonet” by Kummaeno

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:12:10 +0000

An experimental bold face with big contrasts. For big sizes and short words...

“Digilante” by Kummaeno

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:25:05 +0000

Another quick experiment. Computeristic yet wild west. Or something like that.

“Quanted” by Kummaeno

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:55:43 +0000

A "deconstructed" exercise. I got the idea when I fontstructed in a grid that turned out to be a bit narrow. I could only place two of three horizontal lines where I wanted them, so I decided to see what happened if I simply skipped the third. The result turned out to be quite legible even though many glyphs had gaps where the important baseline should be. I especially liked the lower case letters. The concept is presumably not unique though...

“Jacobine” by Kummaeno

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:56:43 +0000

Manga meets cowboy? Dont really know how to label this. An experiment.

“Bitrate” by Kummaeno

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:22:34 +0000

Any cred for this font should go to Rian Hughes. It is more or less a carbon copy of his font "Data 90". Saw the font on the web and thought it would be suitable for a very small personal project I had going. Instead of buying a license, I decided to make my own personal replica in Fontstruct...

“Piquance” by Kummaeno

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:58:02 +0000

A fat face, in the same school as "MegaSpacer", but this one has more bulk and huge differences between thick and thin. And it comes with upper case characters.

“Kuiper” by Kummaeno

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:12:21 +0000

Another retro space/data font. It is a remix of "Straker" by Rian Hughes. The Fontstruct brick concept reduces some of the creamy roundness usually associated to these 60s–70s letter shapes, but that doesn´t have to be bad.

“MegaSpacer” by Kummaeno

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:33:15 +0000

Inspired by the fantastic "MICR" font set. And the Solaris font design from the nineties by Büro Destruct (ah, those were the days). Old but good ideas brought to Fonstruct. Fun and easy as pie.