I created a typeface that represented stone letter carving. My inspiration came from carved street names throughout the City of Bath and from pictures I had taken and other research, I thought it would be interesting to look at the use of positive and negative space throughout my lettering.
My typeface is inspired by the lettering that people vandalise park benches with by scratching intials or short phrases onto them. It is a jagged font replicating the inability to scratch curves effectively when using a knife on metal or wood. The characters vary slightly in size in order to achieve a hand made effect.
My typeface is inspired by vintage jazz vinyls I found while researching in a record shop for fonts used on my favourite covers. My final typeface shows features of aztec designs with an old fashioned feel to it.
Fontstruct is an abstract font inspired by the fingerprints. I liked the idea that even in the digital world our work has an element of it which is analogue wether it be primary sketches or inspiration. I chose the contrast the fingerprint style with harsh lines and cutouts out emphasise the collaboration of the analogue world with the digital.
A modern revamp of the font used in the original release of Windows, "Fixedsys", many of the fonts used in this era have been kept updated and modernised, such as Chicago, the first macOS font, whereas Fixedsys hasn't. I looked to those other modernisations and applied the same principles here to update this classic typeface.
This is a cloneMy fontstruct is inspired by Telephone Boxes. I was interested in the history of the first mass technology in Britain and telephones boxes are a famous symbol of that. The british emblem shape on the telephone boxes inspired the shape of the type and I developed it into all the letters.
Catclaw was inspired by my cat Meow mix's claws, and arabic indic numerals. This font has two meanings; one being that the shapes of the letters look like cat claws, and the other relfecting off of cats attitude in general. Crazy, wild, and independant beings.
Inspired by Russian typography, this typeface was created for the 'analogue' typeface project for UWE. My inspiration came from looking at old Russian propaganda posters, predominately Agitprop, and their bold, visually striking typefaces. I began by drawing and experimenting on grid paper to which I then translated onto Fontstruct to create 'DYSTOPIA'.
A typeface loosely based around Robert Perine's logo for Fender, characterised by natural, fluid shapes. The aim was to construct each letterform with minimal 'brushstrokes' - further details are captured with smaller, flicks/strokes. Additionally, the texture is supposed to mimick inkblots when using a fountain pen, for example.
The origin of this design was me thinking about all the times I have seen a poster or ad, where the modern style of the typography has had success trying communicate the message that was intended. It became a personal goal to create a font that would unite a piece of my personal life, which in this case it is the city where I was born and my chosen style. My country is known for having many volcanos, so I decided to place elements that would represent the volcano but at the same time keeping the modern style. The circles in each letter imitate the view of a volcano from above, it is subtle but it is there, and to me will always be fascinating when we get to discover new information when it is explained by the artist, but it was always there, however, we were not able to see it through the artist’s point of view.
Inspired by the iconic analogue synthesizers of the 1980s and audio in its rawest form.
Juno is primarily built around the basic shapes of the Square, Triangle and Sawtooth waveforms. Each glpyh is specifically designed to be as unique as possible and incorporates a mixture of left and right diagonal cut-throughs in order to maximise legibility.
This is a cloneMy inspiration for this font was Tim Burtons typeface that was used throughout his films. I was also inspired by the old VHS tapes and the way they would glitch out sometimes making the typefaces look a little odd at times. I decided to make mine look a little off in some places with some letters to show the inspiration from this along with a little hint of Tim Burton's style.
I chose to base this font on a deck of cards to play into the idea of complex simplicity. Playing cards start off as the most simplistic form of gameplay where games vary in complexity all the way from go fish snap to bridge and poker.
I am a graphic design student at UWE bristol. I have created a digital typeface inspired by bristol docks, i looked alot at the hooks on the cranes and used the shapes from that and other machinery for the structure of my letters.
A Font that pays homage to early 16th Century Gothic design in both Literature and Architecture. The sharp angles and jagged edges depict the ideas of the era and the pioneers of this time - bringing that into a modern representation with a serif style and italic Fontstruct.
I am a first year student at UWE and was tasked with creating a font from scratch as one of my tasks. I have decided to re design my font as though the previous font fit the Jazz theme much better, I feel this font not only feels more natural but is more unique as well. This type of style is based on a mix between music notes as well as piano keys to envoke the idea that music is involved in the creation of this font.
This typeface is based on the hand-painted names seen on the side of canal boats. The inconsistent, grainy texture of each letter is meant to represent the irregularities in using paint, for example the general wear and tear from the elements like chipped or peeling edges. This was my approach to the idea of “analogue” and a brief set to explore what that means. To me, in the context of the brief, analogue could be defined as possessing a nostalgic or "old school" quality- something replicated in an unauthentic manner in order to create a look-alike imitation of a time gone by. I focused on the old method of transport in Bristol: boats. To further this idea of a 'time gone by', I created this font in the set to look like ink stamped letters.
This is a clone of 1st Draft of Analogue FizzCODESPHERE:
THE INSPIRATION FOR MY FONT WAS DRAWN FROM RETRO, MORE SPECIFICALLY FONTS USED ON COMPUTERS FROM THIRTY TO FORTY YEARS AGO. MY GOAL WAS TO ACHIEVE A SENSE OF NOSTALGIA IN PEOPLE WHO PLAYED THE FIRST COMPUTER GAMES. CODING ALSO WAS A BIG PART OF MY INSPIRATION FOR THE FONT.
This is a clone of CODESPHEREThis font was made for a university project where we designed a typeface based on a chosen theme (Mine being rebirth)
I hope you enjoy my deconstructed abstract font which explores an alternative take on typography
My design was influenced by walls, barriers, and the requirement for a division between our built and natural environments in order to protect us. I am a first-year student at UWE Bristol studying Graphic Design, and I made this digital typeface in response to this year's subject, "PROTECT."
This font takes inspiration from traditional pub signs. The wide variety of different fonts utilized in these signs caught my interest. Trying to emulate and create original letters inspired by the signs would prove a great challenge within the 24x24 grid restriction. I think the font captures the idea of competition between 'The Local's, as they tussle to have the most eye-catching designs on their signs, as every letter in my font is as eye-catching as the next. Many of the letters are individual variations of Blackletter (Old English), bold and lightly serifed type.
This font was inspired by the graffiti and events posters in Bristol. I came across one bit of street art in particular during my research that became my main bit of inspiration. The letters looked very psychedelic based which I loved and therefore made the outcome of my font have a hint of psychedelia. It is named "Spike" as you can see a spike-like aspect feature in each of the letters. This is what gives it its psychedelic flair.
The idea for my font was inspired by the style of Art Deco, and more specifically tiling. I made sure to use the key elements of art deco - which is geometry, elongated lettering, a regular and bold mix, all-caps, arched and decorative details. I was inspired by designers such as A.m Cassandre and Tony Forster. Often Art Deco designs have ornate details - so I have tried to include this by having a specific, unique element that carries through most of the letters.
Analogue can be defected and worn over time, which is the inspiration for this typeface. I looked at posters and stickers around Bristol that had been ripped or destroyed. The typeface was created from a 'P' shape I found by enlarging a torn up section on a poster.
(UNFINISHED) My inspiration for the creation of this typeface was Urban Graffiti, the scrawly, scribbly-kind rather than the larger, bubblier ones. I took the small motifs and other themes that commonly appeared and turned them into a more legible typeface. For this project I was also given a 26x26 limit when creating my type.