nemoorange, FontStructions

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Fontstructing since	3rd April, 2008
Fontstructions	27 shared, 17 staff picks
Shared Glyphs	2695
Downloads	2906 downloads made of this designer’s work
Comments Made	48

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18 91675 Published: 25th October, 2009
Last edited: 25th October, 2009
Created: 21st October, 2009
Started out trying just to make an old-school fontstruction, with no 23.5 degree angles. I had another version with slanted A V W, & X, but it looked more cohesive with everything all blocky. It'd be easy to use this template and build multiple weights.This is a clone

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78 65612 Published: 14th August, 2009
Last edited: 26th May, 2009
Created: 11th May, 2009
work in progress. See also the CSS version, Curtis CSS.

Sans Serif

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33 11837 Published: 29th March, 2009
Last edited: 9th April, 2009
Created: 3rd March, 2009
This is a clone

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48 21749 Published: 13th March, 2009
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 28th February, 2009
Pixel font = relaxation. Less blocks to worry about makes for more fun.This is a clone

Pixel Optimized

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93 31535 Published: 25th November, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 16th November, 2008
My take on Hellenic Wide, which I first saw in a Frank Chimero illustration. Some of his work looks ripped right out of the 50's and I love it. The capitals all fit pretty well into the FontStruct schema. I'd like to revisit this one sometime to see if it would work with a lighter stroke and skinnier character width.This is a clone

Slab Serif

Wide

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178 131912 Published: 31st July, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 27th July, 2008
Like Masphalt, the original inspiration for this one comes from Stefan Kjartansson's Black Slabbath. I think I played enough with it to make it my own. Like the two-story lowercase g and lowercase a. Squishing that middle stroke really gave this one a personality. I kept all the counters rectangular, try not to hide the hard edges. This is my first time going through the diacritics to give me a holler if you see something wrong.This is a clone

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57 2532 Published: 29th June, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 29th June, 2008
When the half-angle blocks were first introduced I thought I would be the last one to produce an old style or transistional sans-serif typeface. Looking through the gallery, I still don't see any attempts. Creating a serif font with blocks is very much a square peg for a round hole, but I enjoyed the challenge. I tried to emphasis all the minor details, like angled stress, or the bottom terminal of the lowercase b. I spent a lot of time on this months ago, but after a while, just lost the drive to complete all the characters. Maybe you're up to the task.

Serif

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24 1762 Published: 13th June, 2008
Last edited: 19th July, 2008
Created: 13th June, 2008
A fun font. mini curlz. Work in progress

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61 0757 Published: 3rd June, 2008
Last edited: 26th June, 2008
Created: 3rd June, 2008
Experimental, dealing with basic shapes.

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Experimental (220)

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51 0795 Published: 17th May, 2008
Last edited: 18th May, 2008
Created: 17th May, 2008
A metal variation of Rosslyn Regular. Lowercase F, P, S, T, V, W, and Y, are paired with A so you can have proper kerning for the most brutal of words like SATAN and METAL and FATAL.This is a clone of Rosslyn Regular

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97 01605 Published: 15th May, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 15th May, 2008
Close of Rosslyn Regular. Bumped up the grid size to 16x16 so I could squeeze in lowercase characters.This is a clone of Rosslyn Regular

Sans Serif

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51 2782 Published: 15th May, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 15th May, 2008
Thinking of a geometric typeface, a la Gotham. Lowercase F, P, T, V, W, and Y are combo-ed with A for proper kerning. 8x8 grid

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36 1982 Published: 12th May, 2008
Last edited: 15th August, 2008
Created: 12th May, 2008
Inspired by the cursive aesthetic from pauldhunt's lovely Structurosa Script. I tried to play around with the kerning so there's the illusion of a continuous line.

Script

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134 110115 Published: 11th May, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 11th May, 2008
Remigius wasn't metal enough. Added another pixel of vertical line width and cut the counters to just one pixel. Now it's ready for the that MAYHEM tattoo you always wanted. Clone of Remigius. Rip of Ironwood.This is a clone of Remigius

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Gothic

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60 2847 Published: 11th May, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 11th May, 2008
Another experiment in breaking down the letterforms, trying to use the simplest shapes that would still hold true to the characters. Uppercase characters look fairly good, but the lowercase get a bit unreadable.

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14 0982 Published: 7th May, 2008
Last edited: 11th May, 2008
Created: 7th May, 2008
Clone of Clive.This is a clone

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26 0402 Published: 5th May, 2008
Last edited: 12th May, 2008
Created: 5th May, 2008
Experimental. Uses a 4x2 grid. Break down all the letter forms into their elemental components and see if its readable.

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184 66112 Published: 27th April, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 27th April, 2008
Conceptual. Uses just 9 blocks.

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Groovy

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123 3676 Published: 27th April, 2008
Last edited: 15th June, 2009
Created: 27th April, 2008
Isometric, negative space.

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157 110114 Published: 20th April, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 20th April, 2008
Font idea taken from the typography from posters for the Smashing Pumpkins Arising tour, back in 1999. As williaum has pointed out, that font is Ironwood. It occurred to me that it would make a very easy Fonstruction. And it was! It's the perfect font for your iron-on Motorhead t-shirt decal. Named after the curmudgeon monk in "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet.

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Gothic

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515 67626 Published: 20th April, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 20th April, 2008
The goal was to make a blackletter font with the fewest blocks necessary. I need to add all the other symbols. Not too happy with those Z's.

Blackletter

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211 15321 Published: 19th April, 2008
Last edited: 19th June, 2009
Created: 19th April, 2008
This started as one of my first fonstructions, but I never got around to finishing it. The capital letters proved too vexing. But the lower case came out well enough.This is a clone

Blackletter

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497 59510 Published: 13th April, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 13th April, 2008
A rip off of "Black Slabbath" by You Work For Them. Big chunky slabs. A personal favorite.

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24 0981 Published: 8th April, 2008
Last edited: 23rd April, 2008
Created: 8th April, 2008
One of my first goes with FontStruct. I aimed for simplicity just so I could complete the Basic 98 characters.

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31 0261 Published: 4th April, 2008
Last edited: 30th May, 2008
Created: 4th April, 2008

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85 3982 Published: 3rd April, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 3rd April, 2008

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20 0260 Published: 3rd April, 2008
Last edited: 20th May, 2008
Created: 3rd April, 2008

Sans Serif

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