IT IS I: THE MYSTERIOUS HACKER WHO ONCE BROKE THE SITE BY REDIRECTING EVERY USER TO THE RICKROLL VIDEO ON YOUTUBE, BACK AGAIN WITH ANOTHER FONT!
THIS TIME, IT’S A COMPRESSED FONT WHERE NOTHING GOES BELOW THE BASELINE. (THE BASELINE IS THE WORLD’S MOST PROFOUND AND INEXPLICABLE BARRIER WHICH MAY NEVER BE CROSSED.)
FEATURES
• KERNING!
• A QUESTION MARK WITH SCOLIOSIS!
• A Q THAT SNEEZED SO HARD THAT ITS TAIL FELL OFF!
• NOTCHES CUT OUT OF E, F, J, T, AND Ƃ TO FIT NICELY WITH V, W, AND Y!
• INK TRAPS TO COMPENSATE FOR THE THICKNESS OF THE STROKES!
• ALL NUMERALS IN THE NUMBERBET ARE MONOSPACED, SO THEY CAN BE USED IN A DYNAMIC INTERFACE WITHOUT JUMPING AROUND!
An old idea updated for this event: FS turns 18!... Revisiting an unfinished project is often a good thing. The experience gained over time usually fills in many of the gaps left by the initial attempts. Btw, the kern is in progress. Hope you like it. Happy Birthday FontStruct!
Happy holidays! Sorry, I can't stop complicating some fonts, now with these large intermediate serifs (but they looks nice!). All seemed simpler when I started it, but... Just unicase with alternates (and a lot of kerning needed => WIP).
My take on Futura Display. The original has some odd details and inconsistencies, so I made my own version. Some compromises had to be made though... A few alternate characters are in the private use area.
P U B L I S H E D O N N O V E M B E R 1 8 , 2 0 2 5
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PW-Blacker Grotesk — a heavy geometric sans-serif font with robust language support. Capital-only.
This font also contains full 3-square-root characters: √, ∛, ∜.
Fractions can also be typed in this font
Syntax fraction typing: [superscript][fraction slash][subscript]
Example: "¹²⁄₃₄₅", while "¹²" is a superscript, " ⁄ " is a fraction slash, and "₃₄₅" is a subscript.
Over 100 language support: Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, Northern Sami, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese, Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Zulu
Please share your thoughts on this font in the comments.
Esta fuente ha sido hecha para usarla en un día muy especial en la vida de mis adorados Héctor y Trini, que han decidido casarse. ¡Os queremos felices por siempre! ¡Vivan los novios!
Not finished font (kern in progress). An extra "Q" has been added in place of the "©" glyph, and a nice heart symbol appears also at the "™" one. I'll fine-tune some details ASAP, I promise.
I was just on the internet watching videos when I stumbled accross a video that was about a guy talking about something called the "ClockClock 24". I looked this up and I kid you not: it is a 24 hour clock made of smaller Analog clocks. When I saw this I was like, "only if you were able to make it display letters...", and then I thought, "I could do that".
And thats how this monstrosity was born.
Plum Blossom (V2)
Version 2 update: Tiles are now in 3D isometric view
My only entry for the Fontstruct Color competition, consisting of 38 tile designs for the Chinese game of Mahjong (+ tile back).
I underestimated how big of an undertaking this was going to be, but luckily I managed to curb my perfectionism and get most of the tiles done with designs I'm satisfied with. The Chinese characters were traced from images on Wikimedia Commons (1, 2) and then modified to fit my taste, the space on the tile, even out stroke width and so on. Hopefully they turned out looking good and legible, as I'm not at all familiar with the system. The rest of the designs were freehanded.
The font is named (for now) after my favorite of the designs - the plum Flower Tile, one of the last I drew. (mapped to 'w')
Character Mapping
This font uses two mappings for each of the tiles, to the following Unicode character sets:
Mahjong Tiles (U+1F000 ... U+1F02F)
All tiles are represented except for the four Season Tiles and Joker (U+1F026 ... U+1F02A)
Basic Latin
Coins suit: a to i
Bamboo suit: A to I
Charaters suit: 1 to 9
Dragons: | (Red) 0 (White) # (Green)
Winds: ^ (N) v (S) > (E) < (W)
Flowers: w (Plum) x (Orchid) y (Chrysanthemum) z (Bamboo)
Tile Back: *
Possible Future Updates
I'll probably be taking a break from Fontstruct for a while, but some ideas for future improvements could be:
- Change name
- Add four Season tiles
- Add Joker
- Redesign 1 Bamboo tile (Current one based on a design from this article. It was easiest to replicate but doesn't really fit the rest of the set)
- Add character mapping to Chinese chars.
- [DONE] 3D Isometric view of the tiles
Extra Links
"How Do I Know if my Mahjong Set is Complete?" from mahjongtreasures.com was helpful.
Also this YouTube video from Accented Cinema provided an interesting look into the culture surrounding the game.
Thanks for reading. Feedback will be appreciated!