16119814
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.
17712614
Published: 11th September, 2008
Last edited: 3rd November, 2008
Created: 11th September, 2008
Clone of Eclat Weave.This is a clone of Eclat Weave
19741084
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.
14512612
Published: 11th September, 2008
Last edited: 3rd November, 2008
Created: 11th September, 2008
Clone of Eclat Weave Rounded White.This is a clone of Eclat Weave Rounded White
20559811
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."
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.
2591615128
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
420610321
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.
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.
412523
Published: 30th June, 2008
Last edited: 22nd March, 2009
Created: 30th June, 2008
Pop and lock. Uppercase and lowercase letters enjoy playing nice with one another. Like loose couples at a swingers club, let them run amuck and get dirty.
5101910415
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
1102233664
Published: 25th August, 2008
Last edited: 7th June, 2009
Created: 25th August, 2008
I took this epic digger while mountain biking in the rain last Friday. No real damage besides a slightly bruised shoulder. But while kneeling on the ground and collecting my wits, I noticed the impression left by my tire treads in the mud and thought there might be a Fontruction idea in there. Hydroplane is the product of that and represents a desire to stay upright, moving forward, with two wheels firmly gripping the terra.
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
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
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.
187116315
Published: 9th February, 2009
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 4th January, 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).This is a clone
5761617547
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.
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
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.
30772625
Published: 8th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 8th September, 2008
Just a fun one I did last night while watching tennis and reading the latest DWR catalog (see page 72). This is a pattern Fontstruction based entirely on the Anni Albers textile pattern of the same name.
"Anni Albers began a three decades long collaboration with the internationally recognized design company Knoll in 1951. During the course of this partnership, Knoll released five of Anni's designs: Track, Rail, Lattice, Jhet and Eclat. Originally designed in 1974 as an upholstery pattern, Anni Albers' Eclat, was first produced printed on a cotton/ linen ground in various scales and color combinations. Reintroduction into the market as part of Knoll's 60th anniversary archival collection celebration in June 2007, Eclat, renamed Eclat Weave, is now produced as a woven, rather than printed, upholstery."
3093155346
Published: 29th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 3rd August, 2008 The Slurpee Font - Created and fueled by an unhealthy summer obsession with the world's greatest beverage you can drink/eat with a straw. A little interweb research gave some hints at a few more glyphs than the initial six glyphs in the 'Slurpee' logo. In some cases, like with the 'c' glyph, I noticed that it had been drawn differently in different usage. See here and here.
Being that the current Slurpee logo is Unicase, I decided to try and make uppercase and lowercase alternatives that can be mixed and matched for the unicase feel.
See also Chank Diesel's wonderful font Cosmic, which draws from the old school Slurpee branding.
P.S. The Monster Black Ice flavor that came out this summer was ridiculously awesome.
20346210
Published: 1st July, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 1st July, 2008
Inspired by the saccharine sounds of the ice cream truck, which has been making the late evening loop around these parts. Upper and lowercase letters enjoy getting all mixed up with one other like a melting Neapolitan ice cream bar. Enjoy.This is a clone of Pop Blox
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.
50872546
Published: 19th December, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 19th December, 2008
Sawhorse Braumarks is a hops & barley flavored family of dingbats I put together to compliment Sawhorse. They were made to be used as label art for beer bottles. The neighbors and I have home brewed up a wicked spicy chocolate beer to bring in the season. I'm not sure which is more difficult, home brewing or fontstructing, but they sure go well together. Cheers & bottoms up.