SMEERKAAS - Decorative, squarish geometric and rounded Art Nouveau display type
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Modern typeface design influenced by Art Nouveau typography.
At its core it is a plain geometric style, and the real breakaway towards a more decorative 'Art Nouveau' inspired style starts with the elongated letterforms and their irregular descending elements. These give it a slight more interesting and dynamic flow that somewhat resembles a calligraphic or handmade look. Some of the descending elements in the uppercase string slightly differ in length and are more decorative, mimicking a dripping-like effect.
Unlike with a more traditional Art Nouveau lettering, the geometric backbone of this design keeps it quite futuristic looking, and actually provides a nice transitional blend of styles.
It works well at pretty much any point size, even at the very smallest, but keep in mind that the font wasn’t meant for large body style text, and is best used in short decorative setting.
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Cap height: 12 units
Body height: 17 units
Point size (Em): 18 units
― I will add extra glyph alternatives in a later update (posted: 09-14-'22)
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The name “SMEERKAAS” is dutch for “cheese spread”and it likely needs some further explanation on why this particularly odd name was chosen.
During the eighties we had this idiotic tv commercial that was aired on dutch
television for a cheese spread brand called “Goudkuipje”.
The plot for this commercial was a castle siege during medieval times, and it revolved around the phrase;
― "Ze smelten de kazen!" which translates to; ― "They melt the cheeses!"
The plot further enfolds into the defending part that had run out of hot tar to pour onto their enemies, alternatively they started melting cheese, so that they would be able to pour that down the castle's wall.
To better understand the link between my font and the tv-commercial you should watch the short commercial clip first.
Video Linkhere - youtube.com
But in a nutshell, the name was sort of choosen as a meme to suit the font's dripping-effect decorative theme.
I hope you like it so far...
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This is a cloneLENA (Text) - Geometric retro display type family
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This is a part of the typeface family called 'LENA'.
A font family that comes in 3 different style varriations: Inline Solid, & Text
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Here you can find the rest of this family:
LENA (Solid)
LENA (Inline)
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This is a clone of STF_LENA_(Solid)LENA (Solid) - Geometric retro display type family
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This is a part of the typeface family called 'LENA'.
A font family that comes in 3 different style varriations: Inline Solid, & Text
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Here you can find the rest of this family:
LENA (Text)
LENA (Inline)
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This is a clone of STF_LENA_(Inline)BACELAR & İRMAO — All-caps (Majuscules) 'Art Deco' display sans
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Revival of the Art-Deco lettering seen on the medical supply store sign of
"Bacelar & Irmao, Lda."— Porto, Portugal.
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I tried to keep it as faithful to the original as I could without compromising too much.
But in order to make them fit a complete typeface when doing these kind of revivals from lettering that were never intended to be a complete 'A-Z'-alphabet can sometimes be tricky not to have certain aspects get lost or slightly modified. As was also the case in this effort...
One of those specific changes for example was with the 'Capital A with tilde'.
In the original store sign the style of the tilde is fairly novel and unique. And seen in that particular situation used 'as is', its pretty self-explanatory of course, and works just fine. But viewed in isolation it is hardly recognizable as a tilde. Not to mention if it was part of a complete typeface that includes multiple accented letters. In that case I thinks it is very confusing and rather useless when it has to resamble the tilde. To overcome this issue I created a new capital letter 'A' with a more traditional and better recognizable tilde.
But obviously I had to somehow preserve that original and quirky novelty as well. So I included it into the location for the capital letter 'A' with ring above. I think it suits that spot much better to be honest. So in the end nothing really got compromised.
I hope you like it
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SJABL00N - A futuristic looking display stencil
It is far from perfect, and especially the symbols and punctuation marks could here and there be better.
I think this was initially inspired by the likes of Wim Crouwel and similar graphic designers.
I hope you like it
This is a cloneBLAYDES - A modern geometric Blackletter style
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Playing around with some more experimental geometric forms for a Blackletter-ish font. It doesn't really involve or honors any actual calligraphic traditions. The font is actually just a simple geometric sans that was modified to sort of faking the looks and style of a Blackletter.
I tried replicating various elements that are traditionally seen in a Blackletter, such as: angular-styled segments such as strokes, transitions, tapered endings or serifs with a different approach. I used a set of circular shapes and variations to these in order to achieve a similar effect.
The end result sits somewhere between this obesed airport Grotesk, a contemporary Blackletter and the work of a bladesmith.
It has some very sharp and pointy tips, and for some reason this often very 'sword-like' forms.
STF_DAMAGE INC. - Tech inspired condensed geometric sans.
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It’s a modern rigid square-based geometric sans that was designed to work especially well in body style text. It was carefuly crafted to be a spacious but continuous fill.
The squarish geometry provides a slight mechanical looking, yet clean and very open basic design.
Each glyph was further constructed with more than enough negative space (white space), making sure any text will look brightly lit and feels well ventilated at all times. This is especially welcoming when having to read large chunks of body text.
The uppercase character set was constructed somewhat of a fraction disproportionally taller compared to the more naturaly proportioned lowercase character set. This to make any line of text that is set in 'all-caps' to bring the impression of being condensed.
This effect is then exaggerated even more by slightly pulling back on the extent of any ascenders and descenders on the lowercase characters.
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I am pretty pleased with the result, it's overall look is fairly consistent and legible. The condensed effect allows squeezing a good decent amount of horizontal text per one single line of type.
The only thing kind of dissapointing to me was it's smallest possible point size in digital display use. It doesn't do well bellow 20px (14.5pt)in digital format.
20px is the absolute smallest size for everything to look crisp and alligned with the pixel raster, going bellow this point and the font starts to become blurry and distorted.
I wonder what any of u type wizards think so far...
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BOOK PRINT ORNAMENTS (TEXT BOX) — Text box ornaments for book print
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14 Ornamental box drawing sets aimed at creating those classic looking (text) box ornaments seen on vintage book covers.
Also in this family:
BOOK PRINT ORNAMENTS (CORNERS)
STF_VINDALOO (Regular Condensed) - Style variation in the 'VINDALOO' font family
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This is a clone of STF_VINDALOO (Regular)STF_VINDALOO (Regular) - Style variation in the 'VINDALOO' font family
This is the lightest version in this font family and is the most suitable style for more of a body text use.
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Of all the versions this one proved to be the most challenging one to implement all the stylistic details the heavier versions also feature. And in the end I was unable to transfer each and every one of them into this version. But that seems to be far from any issue at all since this is aimed at smaller point size and best legibility. So I guess some slight extra simplicity wouldn't harm!
Another notable difference in this version is that some glyphs received more changes than just a 1:1 straight weight cut. This was done because either a straight weight cut would've made the character look awkward or due to technical difuculties.
Despite the above I think it came out just great, and absolutely a clearly recognizable family member.
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All the versions will receive more language support soon (stay tuned)
I hope you like it so far.
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This is a clone of STF_VINDALOO (Bold)STF_VINDALOO (Extra Bold) - Style variation in the VINDALOO font family
More versions coming soon!
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ART-FRÉCO - Art-Deco style typeface
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My second Fontstruction that honours the work of Fré Cohen.
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In loving memory of the great Dutch graphical designer
Frederika Sophia (Fré) Cohen(August 11, 1903 – June 14, 1943).
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Unlike the previous font that was solely based on digitizing one specific lettering concept, this one is more of a 'inspired' mixture of the various works by Fré Cohen.
The font features a full uppercase set that has the main focus. Everything else was build to supplement mainly these. It features a mixture of glyphs alternates in both upper and lowercase form to make some decorative typographic variations.
More fine-tuning will be done soon!
STF_METROPLEX - A discrete non-cursive gothic printscript.
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Its a 'block letter' script. aimed to resemble handwriting that was somewhat rushed and therefor slightly sloppy looking.
The inspiration for this loosely evolved around the idea of a simple handwriting style with medium tip marker pen, a writing style most commonly used and seen in simple everyday application, such as quick notes, bulletin board writing, block format business style as well as in study notes.
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The font combines a bit of two styles into one, with the capital letters done in a 70's Streamline Art-Deco style with at their core a distinct clear geometric backbone. When this is used in "all caps" it could provide for a solid looking headliner. For the lowercase I designed this playful and very dynamic script style that looks very much like a handwritten printscript.
The capital letters are designed with a minutely reduced cap-height relative to the point size. This allows the upper-case set coincide better with the dynamic variations and overshoots on the x-height in the lower-case set when type is set a mixed-case format.
Only partial kerning applied (sorry), but this was a horrible pain in the .... to get somewhat spaced decent enough!
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This is a cloneSTF_LIQUID DISCO (Solid) - Sollid filled style variation on:
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The "Heavy Competition" was the perfect excuse to finaly blow some new life in this older project.
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This font family is a funky looking display sans. The original outline version was inspired by music advertisement and psychedelic arts.
This follows up on the first version with a rock solid filled glyph.
I hope you like it, cheers!
This is a clone of STF_LIQUID DISCO (Outline)ELEKTRON AR-LCD 3_6×6 - Re-creation of the 6×6 dot matrix font that is used in the "Winstar WG12232A" 122×32 graphic LCD display module on the "Analog Rytm" drum machine by Elektron
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I used filters to mimic the original module's dot size and dot pitch:
Horizontal brick size:0,89
Vertical brick size:0,91
Horizontal grid scale:0,8
Vertical grid scale: 0,94
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This is just one of the fonts that is used in the "Analog Rytm", there is number of different font size and designs used throughout the device's OS. Used together to create clear hierarchy and structure in the individual components.
The other fonts:
ELEKTRON AR-LCD 1_6×6
ELEKTRON AR-LCD 2_5×8
Enjoy
This is a clone of STF_ELEKTRON AR-LCD 1_6×6