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104 136733 Published: 18th August, 2010
Last edited: 18th August, 2010
Created: 17th August, 2010
Well, there was this way to go.This is a clone of fs SquaredUp (and nowhere to go)

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102 63623 Published: 9th July, 2010
Last edited: 9th July, 2010
Created: 8th July, 2010

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51 1214856 Published: 9th May, 2010
Last edited: 1st January, 2014
Created: 17th April, 2010
This is my attempt to create a robust, almost military grade slab serif stencil. The whole project was largely inspired by the music clip bearing the same title by Nathalie Cardone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqYHeX0i0NU&feature=related). It is a work in progress, glyphs may change in the final version.

371 5078119 Published: 1st May, 2010
Last edited: 19th May, 2011
Created: 30th April, 2010
Yesterday afternoon I was sipping Coke on a sunny terrace and thinking about life, and the universe, when an idea came out of the blue about a new stencil font. The idea was so simple, I almost felt ashamed not having it much earlier. Back home I started to work on it, and created the first set of letters. It's a work in progress, fraught with imperfections, including the usual spacing-kerning problems. Remolino is a Spanish word for vortex.This is a clone

Stencil (721)

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235 107768 Published: 22nd March, 2010
Last edited: 12th October, 2012
Created: 21st March, 2010
As complete as it is likely to get. Apologies to non-English language users, but adding diacritics would be too big a task (involving between 50 - 150 brick stacks per glyph). If anyone wants a specific diacritic, for a particular use, contact me and I will try to add it.This is a clone of RM Romantic Carved FS1

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27 0475 Published: 24th February, 2010
Last edited: 24th February, 2010
Created: 10th January, 2010

Hello

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264 3967138 Published: 21st January, 2010
Last edited: 11th February, 2010
Created: 16th December, 2009

Dotted

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139 58615 Published: 17th December, 2009
Last edited: 17th December, 2009
Created: 11th December, 2009

Blackletter

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1274 146257 Published: 26th October, 2009
Last edited: 2nd October, 2009
Created: 1st October, 2009
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 calledSans 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.This is a clone of Sans Serious II

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127 1420039 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

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74 136114 Published: 3rd October, 2009
Last edited: 4th October, 2009
Created: 1st October, 2009
My name is Geostruct Grotesque and I'm a typeface. I love grotesque and gothic type fonts, particularly with vertical exaggeration; so I set out with this in mind and here's the result. Love Trade Gothic & Univers Condensed. http://type60.com/2009/10/geostruct-grotesque-a-typeface/This is a clone

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613 13021077 Published: 9th September, 2009
Last edited: 9th December, 2010
Created: 29th August, 2009
This font's beveled angles create the illusion of shading and depth.

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338 2613487 Published: 4th September, 2009
Last edited: 9th September, 2009
Created: 3rd September, 2009
Clone of Corrida. I had this hidden away in the attic, dusted it of a bit.This is a clone

Multiline

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1645 4042281 Published: 29th July, 2009
Last edited: 4th September, 2009
Created: 10th May, 2009
I intended to make some sort of an M.C.Escher tribute here. I'm sorry this isn't very complete and far from being perfectly well done, but it somewhat started to make me feel dizzy...;) And even though I'm not very convinced by this, I don't think I'd come up with a way better execution soon.

I hope for Mr Escher that there are better tribute fonts for him out there! He'd definitely deserve it...

It was by the way funk_king's Impossible Alphabet that reminded me of this unfinished thing laying around in my messy unpublished fontstructions box, and made me take it out and finish it. (If you can call 42 characters "finished".)

Also check out Frodo7's Hommage à Escher, geneus1's IsoMatrix 3D, and funk_king's Soma for some other great Escher-esque fontcrafting!

Ribbon

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370 1617334 Published: 15th April, 2009
Last edited: 19th June, 2009
Created: 8th April, 2009
A simple Dot's Font with geometric shapes. Alternates: • Ampersand "&" in the Tilde letter "~"; • Commercial At "@" in the grave accent "`".

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Dotted

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186 55716 Published: 2nd March, 2009
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 2nd March, 2009
Lowercase includes alternate capital C,J,L,O,Q

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259 176717 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.

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265 159023 Published: 20th January, 2009
Last edited: 14th August, 2013
Created: 17th January, 2009
Based on the logo for the Playstation/Xbox computer game "Grand Theft Auto". I added a number of variations to make up the full set. I've also included a double sized number set for who really hate small numbers.

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123 1013414 Published: 21st September, 2008
Last edited: 18th April, 2009
Created: 21st September, 2008
Hope you like it, and if you do comment, and if you dont also comment. Thanks

Square

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222 101618 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.

See also: Chesterfield Queen and Chesterfield Prince

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161 19814 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.

See also: Chesterfield King and Chesterfield Prince.

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137 1988 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.

See also: Chesterfield King and Chesterfield Queen.

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30 14092 Published: 14th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd September, 2008
Created: 13th September, 2008

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591 716236 Published: 10th July, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 9th July, 2008
Condensed sans with a large x-height.

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1004 1136065 Published: 31st May, 2008
Last edited: 30th September, 2009
Created: 31st May, 2008

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321 105323 Published: 10th May, 2008
Last edited: 1st March, 2010
Created: 10th May, 2008
Inspired from a vintage logo > picture displayed in the comments.

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366 1988 Published: 2nd May, 2008
Last edited: 6th April, 2020
Created: 2nd May, 2008
Tall and Skinny Small Caps

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206 41509 Published: 28th April, 2008
Last edited: 7th November, 2008
Created: 28th April, 2008
All caps. Open outline, fill, and closed outline.

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707 624528 Published: 27th April, 2008
Last edited: 23rd June, 2009
Created: 27th April, 2008
Victrola is a florid Victorianesque display font that might look at home on a vaudeville poster or a bottle of liver tonic. Includes diacritics, small caps, and lining and small caps figures.