a fan font of Axzidenz-Grotesk and Customer Serif.
Note: This is the serif font you see when typing monospaced Asian English characters in Minecraft.
Also, the characters are taken on a large grid, that's because there are only 66 glyphs. Fanmade Hebrew and Korean are to construct and follow rules of creativity like: no copying others work, be constructive.
(Please note that this font is not fully accurate, so you may see some fanmade glyphs.)
ALSO: PLEASE DONT CLONE IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING
We live in a world controlled by technology. As a creative professional I rely on tech to perform my primary business activities, whilst I am extremely pro-technology, I also recognise the negative impacts it has on society.
The theme for this project is ‘Dangerous’.
Please feel free to use this font as you wish, I would appreciate being told in advance as I love to see my work in use.
Ed Garrett / edgarrett1982@gmail.com
Inspired by George Orwell's '1984', the Dystematic font largely revolves around the concepts of societal collapse and dystopia. The hybrid of the words 'dystopia' and 'systematic' hint at the notion of overcivilisation leading to systemic collapse. The imagery within the type suggest broken buildings with revealed scaffolding/foundations which was inspired by concept art pieces of post-apocalyptic societies. The subject of systematic futility can be largely relative to the political and socioeconomic polarity we are currently seeing in the UK and the US.
For the font, I made it by the theme “community”. It then reminds me of bees in the natural world as they often work as a group, which needs good communication to connect each other being part of the community. I made the fonts using hexagon shapes based on the look of the honeycomb that the bees storing the honey from.
2019 marks the 100th year of the existence of Bauhaus. In honour of this iconic art movement, I have designed my first Fontstruction based on the minimalist and structured design which embodied the movement from 1919 until the mid-1930s. In order to create this Bauhaus inspired font, I have kept to 5 different 'blocks', that create the form and a 5x7/6 size allowance to keep a uniform structure.
This is a cloneCārakkaṭṭu means "scaffolding" in the oldest language in the world: Tamil. Why use Tamil and what does this have to do with this font? Well, Tamil is the foundation of all modern languages, it is the earliest form of verbal communication. I am exploring what makes a building stable or unstable, so; you need strong foundations for a good building, but scaffolding if it becomes unstable. Cārakkaṭṭu represents the foundations of a building that has become unstable, and needs to be repaired again.
Albatros is the result of a research on the correlation between genius and mental instability in great artists, philosophers and poets. As in Baudelaire's poetry, it symbolises those who are misunderstood and thus isolated and derided. The albatross is a clumsy bird, but once in the sky and raised over the mass it shows everyone its great wingspan. We are all albatrosses until we are given the opportunity to discover the wings power.