DALLIANCE GROTESK — Geometric gothic grotesque
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Dalliance Grotesk is a solid sans-serif lettering concept that builds on the ‘core’-lettering concept of frongile's amazing work called Liaison Grotesk
Liaison is a renegade take on the gothic grotesque sans-serif style. A wonderful mix of early egyptian styles that get blended with subtle neo-grotesque hints, held firmly together by a rigid condensed geometric letter-backbone. The crude design of Liaison provides a very distinctive and unpolished appearance, that breaths a lot of visual character.
Its geometric quirkiness and rather irregular letter widths, just the slight imperfect overall lettering simply came together perfectly in frongile's original design. Making this a text-book example as for whyback in the day this style became known as ‘Grotesque’.
Yes, Ugly.. Obnoxious.. and... ‘Always in your face’
— Exactly how we like them best...
Dalliance Grotesk is the result of harvesting some of that original soul personality as was seen in Liaison and borrows it for extrapolation into a different font.
While Dalliance tried to preserve much of the overall letter-backbone structures from the original source, its primary aim was, to push towards a more polished finishing touch.
Simplified letters that were stripped of most quirks and bits, keeping only their rough shape intact.
In addition, all curved letter-parts were fully re-build with smoother contours and more natural flowing curve transitions. The spurred top and bottom stroke-stops for the lower-case letters had been changed so that the top now slightly differ from the bottom spurs (different tapered angle). Also the top spurs all have been slightly lowered to make them sit a tad bit bellow the x-height of the font.
Main modification revolved more or less around achieving cleaner overall text rendering and better optimization for body copy in small point sizes. In the process of getting there, I carefully adapted each glyph equipped fit, to appropriately accommodate all the ty(pro)graphic goodness one can possibly hope to pull out of a Fontstruct.
Smooth (near)-Bézier contour quality, optical compensating correction adjustments, such as overshoots, small vertical stressed contrast and improved stroke joints. Also the font's proportions for height to weight ratio has drastically changed.
— Utilizing sort-of an attenuate 'knockoff' to frongile's original concept for his Liaison Grotesk.
I would like to thank him for allowing me to harvest the basis of his lettering-concept and letting me re-use that as the stylistic back-bone in the creation of my own font.
Exercise
The alternative of Stf nobuntu
Groutaskk - a humanist/geometric sans serif typeface
Version 1.0.0
- Making more custom smooth rounds, Improving the inktraps & the tapered spurs of some glyphs(M,N,a,b,d,g,m...)
- Making more custom bricks and composites
- completed all the chars in the Unicode block "Basic Latin"
Version 1.0.1
- added more accents and finish the Unicode block “Latin 1 supp.” & some chars in “Latin extended a”
The bold slab version of Neue Haas Grootesk.
This is a clone of Neue Haas Grootesk BoldMy try at a handwritten font on a small scale, the fuzzy preview amplifies the effect!
Feel free to comment any other ways to create a handwritten effect on a small scale!
(and yes, some time or another i will try to tackle a large scale font with faux-curves, just not anytime this month and/or the next one).
BENGALIQUE - Contemporary grotesk type
A condensed geometric Grotesque style, that at first glimpse looks somewhat simplistic. And for the larger part this is true. The goal was to do a ever so slightly spiced up take on this 19th Century classic style.
At it's core, the letterforms have this strong geometric grotesque backbone that is easy to recognize.
While trying to preserve that unpolished characteristic classic Grotesque basic form, I attempted implementing some personal twists, hoping to make a more contemporary but faithful variation to it's crude classic renegade traditions.
Some of the more distinguishing features for this font are it's heavily condensed style, the somewhat quirky curvatures, overshoot and/-or tapered ends in certain 'sweet spots' on a glyph's leg or terminal.
At random some legs will also ascend and descend just a tiny tad bit, gently adding this extra layer of dynamic depth and playfulness.
Spurs are slightly tapered, counters, negative spaces are in mostly rectangular and do not mirror their convex outer curves, in fact the only concave curvatures within a partially enclosed negative space are those that have strokes intersecting or when a curved shape is used to replace diagonals.
(such as; "B, Kk, Ss, Xx, Y, Zz" numerals; "2, 3, 5, 8")
Note that a couple more unmentioned characters make use of concave curves as well to accentuate specific choices.
(such as; "R, t, ß, etc.")
Visual corrections and optical compensating was exclusively performed on the top part of the glyphs, not their bottom.
-- Some additional side-bearing and kerning is still required --
No filters used...
The font works best for 'Display Type' at most point size. In smaller quantities it can be used for 'Body Type' as well with some proper adjustments to the horizontal spacing. But, nonetheless the font's condensed nature, it's tight letter spacing and some thinner strokes still heavilly affect the flexibility for legible Body-Type-use.
Recommended size for Digital-Display-use is 28pts or higher, and bellow 20pts the font becomes unreadable in Digital-Display-use. But I hope you like it so far, and feel free to let me know what u guys think! ?
That's all for now folks..
Cheers
publishing on 7/15/22 because i am lazy and don't want to work on this anymore
This is a clone of Captions Inc FontSmall Code is a grotesk monospaced font that is designed to include a variety of languages encoded in the BMP and SMP.
It also has a variety of letters in the PUA, such as capital versions of most Latin letters without capitals, characters for Latin letters not included in the Unicode standard, Swedish Dialect Alphabet compatibility characters, archaic IPA characters, Initial Teaching Alphabet characters, miscellaneous Cyrillic letters, Latin phonetic symbols, Tifinagh combined characters, alternate Latin letters for African languages and Polish, medieval extensions, unencoded and lowercase Roman numerals, unencoded mathematical symbols, numbers, superscripts and subscripts, unencoded control symbols, combining numbers, Unifon, unencoded fractions, IMFI forms of Arabic letters not encoded in Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, IMFI forms for Adlam, Powerline symbols, and coding ligatures.
This is my largest font yet!
This font has risen up to #5 on character count!
UPDATE: This font has fallen back to #8. :(
UPDATE 2: In the PUA, the upcoming Myanmar Extended-C block and Tai Khamti digits.
This font has extensions listed here:
Small Code PUA: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2268345/small-code-pua
WIP!!
another quest to make something readable at small sizes
update 0.2: patched brick replacement thing & added alternates
update 0.3: so i decided to follow in Sychoff's footsteps and made some fixes to some glyphs. also added more alternates and punctuation
update 0.4: added arrows
update 0.5: changed spacing
update 1.0: did kerning. i am too lazy to do any more
Inspired by grotesk sans serif fonts made between the 1830s and 1960s. Also inspired by Bebas Neue. This font's name comes from the German word "anzeig", meaning "display". What characters/character sets should I do next?
Inspired by the grotesque typefaces of the late 19th century to mid 20th century.
Inspired also partially by the 1962-1977 Sainsbury's (a supermarket in the UK founded in 1869) product container designs
This typeface's name comes from the Latin name for the city of Berlin in Germany, Berolini.
STF_DERBY - Condensed Geometric Neo-Grotesk sans.
The idea was to make a typeface design that would suit small point size body style typography.
■ Multilingual support (94 languages)
■ Partial kerning WIP (8694 Pairs and counting)
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The fontstruction is a Faux Bezier style approach, to allow the most freedom in shaping the different letterforms and curves.
Font sample is best viewed at 2x pixel size or above for a sharp result.
I hope you like it!
WIP
All caps geometric gothic sans-serif project. Its a semi bold display design that looks a little like those early grotesque types.
The uppercase O has a distinctive circular shape and has a unusual 3x3 grid square dimension. A number of glyphs still need modifications to achieve better solutions. Also is the character set far from complete yet.
I hope you like it so far