1271420039
Published: 3rd October, 2009
Last edited: 3rd October, 2009
Created: 25th January, 2009
Cleaning out the queue. I can't believe this one has been sitting in here for *gulp* eight months! I figure if I don't kick it out now, then it will sit here sequestered for another eight.
The title is inspired by my struggles to space this one properly.
A work in progress. Taking any and all feedback - especially for spacing.
Works best at specific sizes. Enjoy.This is a clone
Q: What's with the name? A: At some point over the holidays, the movie Thunderball was on and I got to thinking about jet packs, Aston Martins, archenemies, Blofeld, SPECTRE and whether Miami is really worth 100 Million in diamonds or if it might have been better just to keep the diamonds instead of trying to save Miami. I mean, at the time of the movie, Miami hadn't even discovered cocaine yet and really wasn't on the map. If I were Blofeld, I would have picked an entirely different city to hold a bomb threat over. It was the sixties after all, take out San Francisco. Incidentally, at one point in the movie Bond finds himself in the Bahamas in the middle of a junkanoo, which is a kind of street fair where folks wear insanely colorful costumes (mostly of feathers) and dance around. Junkanoo! Now that would make a great name for a font. Much better than Thunderball. Is it too late to change the name?
Q: Your recent output - including this clodhopper - seems to be stuck on the 1.8 brick size filter, is your filter toggle stuck or something? A: Your Mom's filter toggle is stuck, buddy! And my next font will be called Clodhopper, and it will be yet another font built at 1.8 and it's going to be big and thick so you'll really feel it when I beat on your skull with it.
Q: Whoa! Touchy. Ok, how about that uppercase 'T', it's awfully funny looking, you gonna change it? A: Oh Boy. You just don't know when to quit, do you? The 'T' began as a spacing compromise but over the last few days it has grown on me - overtaken me really - like some saccharine soaked pop song that I hate but secretly love. So back off on the 'T', it's not going anywhere.
Q: Any last thoughts? A: Blofeld, Junkanoo, Clodhopper - all rad names for fonts that have yet to be born. Q.E.D.
5751617547
Published: 13th August, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 11th August, 2008
jet-ti-son
-verb
1. to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
2. to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard.
-noun
1. the act of casting goods from a vessel or aircraft to lighten or stabilize it.
71654171177
Published: 1st September, 2009
Last edited: 9th September, 2009
Created: 13th July, 2009
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.
491016210
Published: 4th February, 2009
Last edited: 13th September, 2009
Created: 30th January, 2009
The Factory fontstruction is dedicated to the good folks working to pass the Employment Free Choice Act (EFCA) through the 111th United States Congress. Team up!
222101618
Published: 16th September, 2008
Last edited: 16th December, 2008
Created: 14th September, 2008
The Chesterfield Royal Family was formed from my desire to add new weights to the original Chesterfield typeface. In the process of drawing these new weights, I began modifying some of the forms of the new glyphs away from the original Chesterfield glyphs in order to build a more flexible brick/grid structure for the development of various weights. The most noticeable difference between these three new faces and the original is the lowered x-height. That said, there are still some compromises between the different weights and because of that I've given them these royalty names instead of the normal practice of light, regular, and bold weight names. One of the biggest compromises occurs in the Prince weight, where I was unable to add the notch where bowls and shoulders meet stems (see King and Queen weights) without adding too much extra black weight to those parts of the glyph.
A work in progress for sure. Any help/thoughts/repulsions/bile appreciated.
2581515128
Published: 5th January, 2009
Last edited: 2nd February, 2009
Created: 26th December, 2008
A few pattern motifs based upon the Playtime grid and retaining (for the most part) the central block.This is a clone of Playtime Rounded Bold
178712211
Published: 4th December, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 1st December, 2008
Clone of Mooch. A squared off version with an attempt at an uppercase.This is a clone of Mooch
19541084
Published: 24th June, 2008
Last edited: 3rd November, 2008
Created: 24th June, 2008
More gangster than Gill with more gold than Garamond, Summer Grillz is type jewelry for your mouth. All letterforms are diamond-kut using the finest type constructing software on the market today.
Customize your grill with different fills. For extra bling and total street-hustle krunk, layer the star fill on top of the base pave set. Color that s#it gold, son.
Put your type where your mouth is.
Note: kerning subject to da gaps yo teef.
5091910414
Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 26th May, 2009
Created: 22nd December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.This is a clone of Playtime Rounded
420610320
Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 7th February, 2009
Created: 21st December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.
5511010316
Published: 28th January, 2009
Last edited: 29th June, 2009
Created: 28th January, 2009
Thanks to the additional bricks Mr. Meek released, I was able to add the long lost family member—Playtime Bold—with just a few clicks.This is a clone of Playtime Rounded Bold
317110311
Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 22nd December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.This is a clone of Playtime
29151032
Published: 22nd December, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 22nd December, 2008
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.This is a clone of Playtime
1371988
Published: 16th September, 2008
Last edited: 3rd October, 2009
Created: 14th September, 2008
The Chesterfield Royal Family was formed from my desire to add new weights to the original Chesterfield typeface. In the process of drawing these new weights, I began modifying some of the forms of the new glyphs away from the original Chesterfield glyphs in order to build a more flexible brick/grid structure for the development of various weights. The most noticeable difference between these three new faces and the original is the lowered x-height. That said, there are still some compromises between the different weights and because of that I've given them these royalty names instead of the normal practice of light, regular, and bold weight names. One of the biggest compromises occurs in the Prince weight, where I was unable to add the notch where bowls and shoulders meet stems (see King and Queen weights) without adding too much extra black weight to those parts of the glyph.
A work in progress for sure. Any help/thoughts/repulsions/bile appreciated.
15719814
Published: 16th September, 2008
Last edited: 3rd November, 2008
Created: 14th September, 2008
The Chesterfield Royal Family was formed from my desire to add new weights to the original Chesterfield typeface. In the process of drawing these new weights, I began modifying some of the forms of the new glyphs away from the original Chesterfield glyphs in order to build a more flexible brick/grid structure for the development of various weights. The most noticeable difference between these three new faces and the original is the lowered x-height. That said, there are still some compromises between the different weights and because of that I've given them these royalty names instead of the normal practice of light, regular, and bold weight names. One of the biggest compromises occurs in the Prince weight, where I was unable to add the notch where bowls and shoulders meet stems (see King and Queen weights) without adding too much extra black weight to those parts of the glyph.
A work in progress for sure. Any help/thoughts/repulsions/bile appreciated.
20259811
Published: 28th October, 2008
Last edited: 19th November, 2008
Created: 28th October, 2008
This Fontstruction was produced after plugging in the Atari 2600 the other night and falling in love all over again with the minimalist simplicity of the game Breakout.
A little Jobs/Wozniak drama from the development story of the game Breakout:
"Breakout, a discrete logic (non-microprocessor) game, was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, after the latter had "rejoined" Atari after the merge of Atari subsidiary Kee Games.
"Al Alcorn was assigned as the project manager, and began development with Cyan Engineering in 1975. The same year, Alcorn assigned Steve Jobs to design a prototype. Jobs was offered USD$750, with an extra $100 each time a chip was eliminated from the prospected design. Jobs promised to complete a prototype within four days. Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak—employee of Hewlett-Packard—was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage.
"The original deadline was met after Wozniak didn't sleep for four days straight. In the end 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a $5000 USD bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375."
631199878
Published: 4th September, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 4th September, 2008
Good evening and welcome to the Steeplechase, Fonstruct's premier jazz club. Be-bop on over to the bar and order your favorite libation. The show is about to start.
582974
Published: 5th August, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 13th July, 2008
The stars align and pile up to create this font. Perfect for when you want to serrate celebrities, denticulate dignitaries, or simply eviscerate the competition.
The star terminal is the new ball terminal.
174167550
Published: 17th February, 2010
Last edited: 19th February, 2010
Created: 16th February, 2010
Prog is a condensed, geometric, modular display typeface with a contemporary sci-fi aesthetic. The design draws from a multitude of influences. Specifically I was inspired by: mathematics, Japanese space-rock, the movie MOON (directed by David Bowie's kid), and the Funk King's wonderful molecular work here on FontStruct.
The principle building block for the design is an obtuse angle segment that's cloned, reflected, and rotated to create an entire letter. Mapping the technique to the whole typeface was a challenge and there are some compromises (see D and U). As is frequently the case with these strict modular exercises the T is the stand out ugly duckling.This is a clone
486737
Published: 23rd September, 2008
Last edited: 7th February, 2009
Created: 23rd September, 2008
Lithe is my attempt to build something modular with a hint of flair.
46757353
Published: 20th June, 2008
Last edited: 14th December, 2009
Created: 20th June, 2008
An experimental face focusing on contrasting shapes and color.
135256916
Published: 20th April, 2009
Last edited: 4th December, 2009
Created: 17th April, 2009
I bought one of those 3D Pin Art things at a garage sale a couple weeks ago. Turns out making 3D impressions of "The Bird" doesn't hold the same cultural currency now as it did when I was in Junior High, so I decided to cash in another way and make some letters.This is a clone
16866824
Published: 10th February, 2009
Last edited: 23rd November, 2009
Created: 9th February, 2009
Loosely based on several styles of letter and numeral forms observed on various aircrafts at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. The museum is home of Howard Hughes Flying Boat H-4 Hercules (aka, the Spruce Goose).
Jetstream is a clone of Perforate. Jetstream's x-height is higher. The uppercase horizontals are narrower. The lowercase 'a' was made two-story. Without the constraints of the perforations, I was able to better center the crossbar of lowercase 'e', 's' and 'x'. Some numerals have also been modified.This is a clone of Perforate
144126725
Published: 22nd July, 2009
Last edited: 13th July, 2009
Created: 11th July, 2009
This is a clone/remix of Micromoog. This font should ONLY be used to set the titles for a bad Michael Bay movie where the plot features an alien breed of energy drink swillin' robots that fight against extreme sport celebrities in an attempt to rid the earth of BMX bikes, skateboards, all neon colors & fun.
Lowercase carries a full set of X-TREME alternates. This is a clone of Micromoog
258176717
Published: 2nd March, 2009
Last edited: 1st July, 2009
Created: 17th February, 2009
Inspired by Em42's 'Dioptical' and various other Fontstructions carrier out by fellow Brothers of the Optical Cloth.