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ALIEN WORMHOLE - Monolinear Sci-Fi-inspired 'worm' typeface.
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[Historic snapshot:]
Most well known worm-type design probably is NASA's retired 'worm' logo (used from 1975 till 1992).
A sophisticated modernist rendering of the letters (N-A-S-A), done in a bold style letterform.
That being said, I should mention that this FontStruction wasn't "inspired by" or "based on" the original NASA logo though.
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[About this font:]
Small grid attempt at making sort of a experimental futuristic 'worm'-type design.
The letterforms for the most part are build from simplified basic geometry (rectangles/circular) except for a small number of symbols and punctuation that have diagonals.
It's experimental appearance is defined by the strikingly quirky counters that are awkwardly jutting out of the stems. To further boost it's awkwardness the letterforms have irregular width.
There is a full set of uppercase and partial lowercase glyph alternatives located in "Half Width Full Width" Unicode block to add slight stylistic variations.
I hope you like it,
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Here is a link to the 'Bold' version
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Cheers!
18 Comments
I am very impressed at the speed of your production of new fonts. Not only are they all good, but quite a large character set as well. How do you do it?
@thalamic: Thanks for the kind words mate. To be honest I don't realy have a recipe, and I think its due to a number of reasons:
- Many designs within a similar physiological design framework
- Lots of FontStructions are (semi-)inspired works, I think this takes away lots of the preasure as well.
- 617 unfinished works in private also helps a lot with pushing so much new stuff out. (lol)
And last but not least I can not deny that the puzzly world of FS is very addictive!
617 in the chamber... Wow! A lot of screen time... Do you ever sleep?
Talking about this work: two typefaces seem to coexist in one (one more vertical and traditional and the other more innovative -a, b, d, h, m, etc-). But interestingly, they work together in their own peculiar way, producing a much more readable result than might be expected at first glance. Unfortunately, the glyphs that seem unrecognizable to me in their quirky design are K, k, and R, all IMHO. That must be the alien effect. ?
“ 617 in the chamber... Wow! A lot of screen time... Do you ever sleep? ”
n0pez.. ?
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“ Unfortunately, the glyphs that seem unrecognizable to me in their quirky design are K, k, and R, all IMHO. That must be the alien effect. ”
Yup, this work seems to be having an alien viral infection, symptoms are intense and fiercely disabling.
Their mothership's AI has been jailbreaking into our mainframe and replaced the system's default typeface with one of their own special 'character recognition-' compatible typefaces for easy auto-translation of latin based languages into their own native language.
So perhaps this is what a latin based type design possibly looks like if it was designed to be intelligible and more user-friendly for extraterrestrials.
But what do we actually truly know? Last time I checked I was pretty sure I wasn't an alien, and for all we know we could be looking right at it and thinking nothing seem to look out of the ordinary. ?
I think for experimental styles such as this it shouldn't be all too much of an issue, since it wasn't initially aimed at providing best possible ergonomic performance. But formost with stylistic appearance in mind. ?
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I wonder if a variable font of all styles, when finished, will be possible?
@BMW: Not solely with FontStruct, this requires the use of an external type-tool. But that is certainly something I am working towards for my multi-style type families.
A thing you got to keep in mind is that this requires some very specific parameters that need to be setup right for it to handle everything correctly.
Another thing one got to consider is that this can be highly impractical to utilize easily, since most type or design tools not give users access to the various features. In those situations it's probably best to have each style as separate font file and simply merge style attributes with Open-Type features.
The forthcoming bold version kind of took a leap into the unknown and also includes partial 'Greek/Coptic' and 'Cyrillic'. This happend somewhat accidentally and was never really meant to implement multilingual support to the font. Initially I simply used these Unicode blocks as temporarily locations to store random glyph alternatives. But without realizing it I eventually caught myself halfway into the process of including the remaining missing glyphs too these blocks as well (oops).
But now I found out that including these is fairly straight forward and not going to be all that much of a hassle, it had me think of the broader perspective, So I'm now considering to transfer these new ideas into this 'Light Weight' version as well.
#brainstorming
-- I will drop another sample image that includes the current glyph set for the upcoming bold style bellow!
Anyway, stay tunes, more updates will most likely happen sooner or later.
Cheers
Interesting alien style. I've explored some similar shapes in the past.
@Yautja: Oh, wow ? amazing stuff. Yours seems to have been given better propotional properties and somewhat looks a bit more 'terrestrial' as opposed to mine. ?
Can you attempt a version of this cool font in which each character can be written in a single stroke? Given your production speed, I think you can do it overnight. ;-)
@thalamic: I think I can try of course, only Aa-Zz I guess, right?
Gracias
Gracias
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