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Slink 

by geneus1
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129114226 Published: 30th May, 2009
Last edited: 30th June, 2009
Created: 27th May, 2009
A tribute to Josef Albers: inadvertently inspired by saberrider and afrojet. This font totally happened by accident. Recently, saberrider created steep, which uses a 2.0 x 1.11 filter setting to smoothly blend the quarter-circle bricks into the triangles. After saberrider created his experimental variable scale fontstruction, it lead me to revisit an abandoned work I did from last year that was done in a similar scale. After getting over the initial disgust of looking at the dismal failure, I started tweaking. Then I decided to tweak the letters instead. It became apparent that I could create a stencil type font that also looked like Josef Alber's font. Coincidentally, Saberrider also has a variation with fontstract, and of course, that Stewf guy has his own family of Leaflets. ;-) Afrojet's sessions came into play in creating some of the letter forms, especially the numerals. The final filter setting became 1.638 x 1.08, which created a nice fusion of the curved and triangular bricks, but was also naturally inclined to necessitate the vertical divide on each glyph. The rest flowed rather easily from there. Here's to more happy accidents. =) The sample is also a tribute to Alber's color theory, showing the names in identical colors, which, when juxtaposed over contrasting colors tricks the eye into thinking the bottom name is darker than the top. The following Josef Albers quote can relate to all things creative, like fontstructing, not just color: "It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories. As we begin principally with the material, color itself, and its action and interaction as registered in our minds, we practice first and mainly a study of ourselves. Thus, we replace looking backward by looking first at ourselves and our surroundings, and replace retrospection with introspection." - Josef Albers This is a clone
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    Leaflet Wide Stem 

    by Stephen Coles (Stewf)
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    56603812 Published: 15th May, 2008
    Last edited: 13th May, 2009
    Created: 15th May, 2008
    Wider stem for smaller point sizes.

    See the Leaflet Family.    This is a clone of Leaflet Stem
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      Leaflet Stem 

      by Stephen Coles (Stewf)
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      82533825 Published: 15th May, 2008
      Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
      Created: 15th May, 2008
      With thanks to simple-deux for the idea of a vertical gap.

      See the entire Leaflet Family.      This is a clone of Leaflet Gap
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          Leaflet Gap 

          by Stephen Coles (Stewf)
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          31101838138 Published: 18th April, 2008
          Last edited: 15th June, 2009
          Created: 18th April, 2008
          Much like MinimalBloc, Leaflet works better when the modular pieces are revealed.

          See the entire Leaflet Family.          This is a clone of Leaflet
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              Leaflet 

              by Stephen Coles (Stewf)
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              6151385 Published: 1st March, 2008
              Last edited: 16th June, 2009
              Created: 1st March, 2008
              A tender little geometric thing, inspired in equal parts by nature and the Bauhaus. Lowercase only for now. A variation that reveals the bricks is also available.

              Now more variations. See the Leaflet Family.
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