9661417263
Published: 10th August, 2008
Last edited: 24th June, 2009
Created: 10th August, 2008
this electricity
injected into me
emotions running over me
and when you're getting close
you touch my innermost
a feeling deep inside me knows
—"circuit breaker", röyksopp
731811014
Published: 11th December, 2009
Last edited: 1st November, 2010
Created: 26th November, 2009
A pretty simple fontstruction on its own. It only comes to life when layered with other fontstructions from the Institutional family (Elements is available now with further additions coming soon); see samples. This fontstructions attempts to further two quests: to have a font almost completely solid (without sacrificing legibility, i.e.) and to find new ways pixel-level coloring without coloring each pixel.
Disclaimer: No attempt is made to copy/reproduce any existing type design or coloring technique. Any resemblance to existing fonts or fontstructions or coloring technique is purely coincidental and displays the designers inability to unlearn intentional or accidental knowledge gained in the past, either visual or technical.
36281019
Published: 5th February, 2009
Last edited: 20th August, 2012
Created: 3rd February, 2009
This font has no idea what it wants to be when it grows up. Stupid designer.
9710988
Published: 15th August, 2009
Last edited: 23rd November, 2009
Created: 15th August, 2009
This started out as a 'why not'. When it showed potential, I added more glyphs to round out the character set.
— Alt. t at { for words beginning with it.
— ll (double l) lig. at } for a nicer fit.This is a clone of fs Fontsration
64159221
Published: 16th March, 2010
Last edited: 7th June, 2010
Created: 29th August, 2009
The name is derived from this fontstruction trying to emulate the intaglio style.This is a clone
77289116
Published: 19th August, 2011
Last edited: 23rd August, 2011
Created: 19th August, 2011
Clone of fs Arc Test 1:1, which was started on Fri, 27th August, 11:59 AM 2010.
As simple as this fs may appear to be, it was much more complex to pull off. The curves and angles just did not match. The original version was at filter 1:1. Today--after a long time--I had enough free time to play around. Cloned and upped the filter to 2:2 (well, 1.75:1.75 to be exact). The 0.25 offset was initially put into place for the creative process, just so I know which brick was where. The breaks became a design element somewhere along the way. That caused additional brick placement problems. A full 2:2 filter would have made things much easier. Regardless, I am reasonably satisfied with the outcome. Needless to say, each glyph went through a whole bunch of iterations before settling on what's currently visible. Not all turned out good. The 'V', for instance. Who knows, better solutions may exist.
Take a square, split it horizontally, vertically and diagonally. This gives just 16 line segments to work with. I have a book where the author lists every possible combination of those 16 line segments. That gives a staggering 65535 total possibilities. And that's just straight lines. I mention this because the uppercase grid here is 6×8=48 bricks (counting one 2:2 brick as 4 1:1 bricks). Then there is the possibility of using a whole slew of 4×4 brick shape. I am not even going to attempt to figure out how many total possible combinations that makes but I am sure it is a number much larger than 65535.
The point is, with so many possible brick combinations, better solutions most probably exist. I just may be too narrow-minded to visualize them.This is a clone
274894
Published: 13th October, 2009
Last edited: 13th October, 2009
Created: 12th October, 2009
My bold attempt of thalamic's Balance.This is a clone of fs Balance
1009886
Published: 12th January, 2009
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 11th January, 2009
for djnippa.
the short numerals seem all out of order but there is a logic to it. - for 1, _ (shift -) for 2, = for 3, + (shift =) for 4, [ for 5, { for 6, ] for 7, } for 8, \ for 9, | for 0.
Mayan-type alt. numerals at: * for 0, ( for 1, ) for 2, ; for 3, : for 4, ' for 5, " for 6, < for 7, > for 8, / for 9.This is a clone
15398649
Published: 1st February, 2010
Last edited: 22nd December, 2010
Created: 31st January, 2010
Inspired by a picture found on this website.
Another diagonal line font so soon after fs Overlap. A mere coincidence. The application of each is very different. Overlap is about negative space while I-Tilic is about patterns and meta shapes. Post samples if you end-up playing with this fontstruction. Have fun.
[ = fi ligature ] = ti ligature < = background fill (negative) > = background fill (positive) ` = reverse tile (above base line) ~ = reverse tile (full height) { = top border } = bottom border | = side border
145208537
Published: 12th October, 2009
Last edited: 12th October, 2009
Created: 11th October, 2009
This was fun to do.
---Not liking the e and the s so much. ---While doing the sample, I found that even though the inter-character spacing is specifically set to one grid space wide, Photoshop was rendering the spacing differently per character pair. Same in Illustrator. Curious, I opened it in FontLab Studio. Turns out, the characters that have a half-wide brick left of the left edge in FontStruct are another half-brick-width over in the TrueType file. The sample is, therefore, manually kerned back to original.
566856
Published: 15th February, 2010
Last edited: 13th April, 2010
Created: 15th February, 2010
Nothing new here. Just a little something at a 'minimum' scale for the user-pic.
12368411
Published: 4th November, 2008
Last edited: 30th June, 2023
Created: 4th November, 2008
The 'why not' version...with a guentersen style heart at the dagger.
51078423
Published: 18th February, 2009
Last edited: 16th July, 2009
Created: 8th February, 2009
It started when kolarek posted the RÖFIX logo as his inspiration for his Blokinjo FontStruction. I wondered if that logo could be recreated exactly in FS. Turns out, it could. Having done that exercise, it was time to move on to play with other character designs. In a short while the whole set was done that matched the logo characters. Then the playing really began. Over the last 11 days, enough variations for each character were generated to fill three fonts. This is just one of those three.
$=Alt. s %=Alt. alt. s <=Alt. V >=Alt. W [=Alt. U ]=Alt. alt. W \=K |=Alt. S
1445837
Published: 6th September, 2008
Last edited: 16th June, 2009
Created: 6th September, 2008
Synergy of two, energy go wild See the stars align to spell our name out in the sky —"Circuit Breaker", Röyksopp
6998316
Published: 29th August, 2009
Last edited: 29th August, 2009
Created: 27th January, 2009
For use at pixel level. Also works at 32pt×x, where x=1,2,4,8,etc. ----- This font has been a long time in the making. The dots are such that the curved shapes and squared-off letters just would not resolve to an equal height no matter what I tried. Then after the mixed x-height that came about in yesterday's la Cross, it occurred to me to just let the letters be as tall as they wanted to be. It seems to work for some odd reason. Can someone please explain why it works?This is a clone
It looks quite simple, and in the end, it was, though getting to the end was anything but. This font appears as a clone of ookii because that's where I started it, thinking I'll just add the shadows. Getting the shadows to look natural and line up properly in every character was a geometric challenge. I ended up redrawing the whole thing three times over--in incremental step up of scale before getting it right. I love doing fonts like this one.This is a clone
14812819
Published: 24th August, 2008
Last edited: 25th August, 2009
Created: 23rd August, 2008
You are an obsession
I cannot sleep
I am your possession
Unopened at your feet
There's no balance
No equality
Be still, I will not accept defeat
—"Obsession", Animotion
114128110
Published: 19th February, 2009
Last edited: 19th June, 2009
Created: 11th February, 2009
This came out of the same exercise that produced FIROX.This is a clone of fs FIROX
376198025
Published: 7th October, 2008
Last edited: 12th June, 2009
Created: 30th September, 2008
I really like the way this one turned out. It uses minimal grid blocks to achieve the desired effect (although at ~2x2 and the slivers and the pinhole dots, there are a surprisingly large number of actual bricks used per glyph than evident at a quick glance, although not a single overlapping brick is used without express purpose). I think this is my favorite of all the ones I've done so far. It is with nervous anticipation that I let it free. Go forth and propagate, young font; it's You v World!