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By popular demand, I'm very proud to present you this recreation/digitization of Maxim Zhukov's Meander (an experimental modular type design from 1972, which was used in cover artworks for Stereolab's Dots and Loops album and Miss Modular EP).
Now supports Cyrillic characters and includes other custom-made glyphs, like numerals and punctuation marks.
References: Type Journal: "Towards an open layout: A letter to Volodya Yefimov", "Искусство шрифта. Работы московских художников книги. 1959–1974" (The Lettering Art. Works by Moscow book designers 1959–1974), pg. 35
A strong and rounded fixed-width font, aimed at single-font apps such as consoles and text editors. Good for programming and text interface design. Has more glyphs and complete Unicode subsets than most default monospaced fonts.
NOTE: If you want to use this font in Windows console apps, please do NOT download it from here because this website is unable to mark TTF font files as Monospaced, in the way that Windows requires. Instead, read the comments below for 22nd May 2019 and download it from the link provided.
This is a cloneDownload this font only in Mac
Unicode® 16.0.0
Unicofonte is a sans-serif typeface which is designed by marcot_0425, not_cake, & Sed 4 type foundry for the Fake Bézier curves(geometric shapes only).
Latest update (v7.0.0):
March 3 at 11 a.m.:
Updated Cyrillic Omega Titlo and OT
Updated L with accent marks (especially L with stroke [small] as it looks like a T)
Fixed u0020 (spacebar)
I've updated tone six (looks like a cyrillic hard sign)
I've updated Cyrillic multi-eyed o (10 eyes) and F with stroke (Ua798) (looks like French franc symbol)
Fixed some bugs
Fixed all Latin extensions d character (a7d5) and medival exclamation and quesion mark(2E53-4)
Fixed Thorn with stroke
i used a diagonal brick to make it
Sun 24 Dec:
Today I added latin/greek/cyrillic unicode 16.0 chars
26 Dec 2023:
Better Kerning
Fixed most of the errors that I found
This should have been a minimum font, but minimum can't do color.
The idea was to simulate transparency. After trying out multiple color hatch patterns, it was apparent that it is not going to work. The earlier attempts are left in the font for you to judge yourself their efficacy.
The file is pretty heavy because of having so many anchor points (times 8 layers). Scrolling will be slow. Because the next letter overlapping the previous hides part of the black outline, just outline glyphs are there to stack two layers (colored below, outline above) to get the correct effect.
Is there some trick to make the downloaded font to work in color? The version I downloaded comes as *-svg.ttf. Aren't the color svg fonts in .otf format? Thus, no sample.
Then I thought "How about adding a shadow? Just a little shadow for zarzaparrilla..." Hmmm, well, it was a bit more complicated than it may seem at first... But finally here it is! Ta-da-daaa! (-Phew-). Inspired on a few glyphs from "Pionner" (1969) by Francisco Gonzales.
This is a clone of zarzaparrilla eYe/FSSome kind of great big ol' chain.
In retrospect, I think it looks like a jewelry chain from a dwarven civilization. Perhaps the hypothetical jeweler cut and ground the stones in an imitation of some dwarven font!
When glyphs are used in isolation, they somewhat resemble carved signets or seals. Increasing the letter spacing allows you to create a variation of the design. (This is something that must be done in-software since the font will render as monospaced by default.)
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12SEP2018: Added lowercase... the low resolution combined with the design method make it very difficult to render distinctive lowercase versions of every letter, but I'll keep working on it. There's a lot of similarity between pairs like S/5, Z/2, etc., so this font is most effectively used in forms of writing wherein context suffices to inform the reader as to the identity of each glyph (lists, prose, and technical writings). If you want to use this in a password system or something, I recommend using one case's glyphs only.
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Design Rules:
1. Negative spaces will be areas of 0.5 bricks' effective length or width.
2. Negative spaces may exceed the 0.5 measurement only by increments of 0.5 and in only one dimension at a time.
3. Glyphs will fill their framed canvasses to the greatest extent possible while adhering to the other rules.