Version 0.3

A small-grid font with character.

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Design Rules:

- No angles.

- Asymmetry should be present wherever feasible.

An unfinished doodle. Perhaps someone else will find this more inspiring than I did.

Paperfold is a decorative typeface that is based on geometrical shapes and forms, imitating the paper folding technique. 

This typeface features a condensed, modern and clean block look. Ideal for sporty, festive, adventurous design themes. 

For the uppercase letters and symbols, most of it has a fold for every curve. While the lowercase letters and numbers, each first line has the fold imitation only, and the rest of the lines curve smoothly.

The typeface can also be converted to outline which features a maze-like appearance. 

A flat-topped Decolike. This was a difficult style to work with.

Structurally, it is sort of like a fusion of Laconica and Modron March, but with flat tops and more line weight variation.

Font with 4x6 global matrix and no line spacing. Made for a number of specialized uses - bitmaps, marquee displays, media player skins, medium-canvas pixel art, etc.

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Original size: 4.5pt

Mildly quirky serif font made for the signage/logos of a certain event. Limited character set.

My first Fontstruct made for my upcoming indie arcade game.

V0.2.5: Added Polish. Cyrillic is in progress.

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A small scale faux-bezier design with a cutout-esque look. It offers different advantages at different sizes. Most glyphs are legible down to 4pt.

As this design evolves, it gives me an increasing "board games" feeling. This design seems very well-suited for board game parts, especially cards and smaller plastic pieces.

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This has a few notable design features:

- Asymmetry helps keep letters like bdpq from being confused for one another

- Serifs and flags accomplish the same thing for groups of similar letters such as ce and ftſ

- Semiserif style helps reduce the need for kerning to almost zero

- Simplified polygons and counter shapes help pixel optimization

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See also:Cartoon Riot

A rounded, incised, spurless sci-fi design with a heavy emphasis on visual balance. Language support is in progress.

Experiments in structural dis- and re-connection.

Revisiting Celosia, this time with faux-beziers instead of pixels.

Alternate @ design on ©.

Font with a "light rays"/stained-glass effect.

THE MOMENT YOU STEP INTO SPOOK MANSION, YOU REALIZE YOU DONE GOOFED UP. THE DOOR SLAMS SHUT BEHIND YOU AS SCARY PIANO MUSIC BEGINS TO WASH OVER YOU AND TERRIFYING KICK DRUM SOUNDS BEGIN TO PUMMEL YOU. WITHIN MOMENTS, YOU ARE DROWNING IN A SEA OF EERIE AMBIENCE. "WOE BETIDE THE FOOL WHO CONSPIRES TO TAKE MY RICHES!", SHOUTS A GHOSTLY VOICE SOMEWHERE BEHIND YOU. YOU TURN, BUT NOTHING'S THERE. BOO! LOL....................................................

An avantgarde serif with a mild horror theme. It takes advantage of the properties of antialiasing/text smoothing algorithms to render a convincingly handmade aesthetic.

Making attractive, consistent, nonpixel serif designs at this grid size is quite a challenge. Making them look handmade is even moreso. I've tried that many times, but this design is the first such one I felt was truly usable. It doesn't quite look typewriter-esque, but blends well with other designs that are.

For this I used many different serif shapes, with each one depending on how the line it was attached to wanted to bend or terminate. This is in contrast to most other serif designs I've seen, in which the serifs themselves are more consistent in shape. I decided against faux-bezier curves for this, because they all looked way too polygonal. I think this is one of few cases where a rectangular O and S enhance the overall design rather than weakening it.

The original Halberdia as it evolved from from 0.1 to 0.3.

Version 0.5

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A font made for a Terraria mod. It gets its name because parts of it remind me of halberd, partisan, and/or axe heads. I designed this to have the vaguely authoritation look of a Didone as well as a borderline-gaudy look that prevents this from being taken as seriously as other Didones. These changes lent some much-needed character to the prototypical Didone from which this design evolved. The uppercase letters are more heavily ornamented, as if to suggest that they are letters from an illuminated manuscript.

The main texture is a diamond pattern inspired by vent holes in medieval armor. These were often made with a square punch, and help the font look more handmade.

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Notes

The wider letters are incised, which seems to lessen their perceived wideness by breaking up the shapes. For me this effect lent a more natural flow to the reading.

The ornamentation rules are complicated and factor in lettershapes, English letter frequency, and the existing design parameters. One thing I can concisely explain is that glyphs which normally look fairly plain are ornamented to such an extent that they make others look plain instead (CGJLT1 among others).

A semi-hollow pattern fill version of Graphene. Made for a friend.

The original turned out to be great for vector design, but didn't always play well with stroke outlines. So I made this.

A "lowercase" font

A variant of Tangereen 3. Hard to read, but has a certain ornamental appeal.

Lately, I've been busy learning 3D modeling, vector art, and digital art things. So I only envision myself making more FontStructions when I need them for an existing project. I've already done all the designs based on my own past work - or at least, all the ones that are possible to create here.

Nuclear bomb set. 14 nukes, 10 crosshairs. Inspired by "Stabby & Synclan - Nuclear Winter". Includes capitals from A-X.

A "capital" font

A capital font

This is my attempt to make the smallest possible font. Each character fits inside a 3x3 pixel square (4x4 pixels if you include the space between characters).  This font can be useful where pixel space is at a premium, like on an LED matrix or a mechanical display.

I don't consider this a truly complete font because there is no distinction between the capital letters and small letters. Also, some of the special characters can be difficult to descern without context. Nevertheless, this font can create readable text strings and convey information using a minimum of resources.

I am publishing this font under a Creative Commons license, so that anyone can use it for any purpose. Attribution is appreciated but not required.

Leave a comment if you make something cool with it!

James Robert Patrick IV

nostalgiaXL

same as nostalgia, but all characters are scaled 2x. (take up double the pixels, while retaining the same exact shape.) 

basic latin

upper, numbers 3x4 (N, Q 4x4)

lower 3x3 (q 3x_4)

no symbols exceed 4x4 except for {  |  }

all letters appear caps

credit is appreciated ♥

100% free

Paradoxy Effect, without the Effect. Quite a drastic transformation!