Manufaktur

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The cyanotype was developed in 1842 by Sir John Herschel. This process, commonly used for blueprints, involved placing an object onto a surface and covering it in a solution of Iron (III) salts. Once the solution is exposed to ultraviolet light, the Iron (III) salts are converted into Iron (II) salts. After exposure, the suface is washed and the water reacts with the Iron (II) salts to form a Prussian Blue pigment that blueprints are known for.

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Manufaktur is a monospaced typeface and while it has upper and lower case letters, it is really unicase. Manufaktur is intentionally stripped of most characters, coming with only the most essential. The idea being that Manufaktur has the bare minimum, but is still functional as a typface. It was designed with the intentions to be used in a machine shop more than on a page.

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Notes:

Manufaktur is set in #002c8c, as a reference to blueprints. I had wanted to use Pantone's Prussian Blue (#003153) but it was too dark. 

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Some of the stenil lines (C, J, O, Q, U, 0, and 2) were made using white bricks. I had experimented ways to get the stencil lines without using white bricks, but it looked much cleaner with them. Being a color font, you should be able to change the color of the white bricks to mach your background. It's not ideal, but it's what looked the best.

A basic sans serif font for coding, meant for small sizes (and it would look good in large sizes too, if it weren't for those pesky parentheses...)

A nonogram font. Some variation between uppercase/lowercase letters, alternative 2/7 on < >, and an extra Y on ^. I originally made this in a 5x5 grid, but there were too many glyphs with multiple solutions, so I had to remake the whole thing. (You can still see the original style in the small numbers)

Nothing Phone font inspired

See more:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2470916/bubbly-black-c

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2142870/dover-led-v2-4

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/151519/ledpop_b

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1406099/nanopixel

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2147398/pixel-sans-13-63

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2564059/font-8368

Based on old vector display text, mainly on what's seen in The Andromeda Strain (1971). Alternative D/K/V in the capitals.

Republished with Latin accents and a few new symbols. 17.04.24

Αναδημοσίευση με τη Δημοτική (εργασία σε εξέλιξη). 23.05.24

Various glyph refinements, Latin as well as Greek,  17.06.24

Every printable character in the strict 7-bit ASCII set, with handy decimal, octal and binary numerical codes attached (no hexadcimal, as it involves letters ;-)

Feeling inspired after reading Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type by Toshi Omagari, I set out to make my own 8x8 pixel font. I worked with a similar approach to the one I used in the larger grid font offstruct rgb.

First started in Adobe Illustrator, each character consists of three iterations of the same 6x6 pixel letter: in RGB Red, Green and Blue. These were layered, offset by one pixel diagonally, filling the 8x8 box. To achieve additive blending, I applied the "Lighten" transparancy setting. Combinations of overlaying these three primary RGB colours result in the secondary RGB coloured pixels Yellow, Cyan and Magenta. In the additive mixing of coloured lights, the equal blending of all three primary colours results in White. All pixels were then entered manually into the fontstructor and black pixels were added for display purposes.

This is another clone of Monkey (my monospace lanky font); it should be very similar to the original except for the lower x-height and the added accented characters (More Latin/Latin-1, Latin Extended A, Latin Extended B, and now Even More Latin/Latin Extended Additional). It is 16 blocks tall and 6 blocks wide; all letters without diacritics are at most 9 above the baseline and at most 3 below, but the accents push the height of a letter up by 3 blocks (or rarely 4), and the box drawing characters extend even higher, to 16 blocks from descender to the highest point. This font uses the FontStruct 2x2 filter method with plenty of composite and stacked bricks, which lets the curves look good at large sizes while remaining sharp on the screen at normal sizes. Mandrill will look strange in the FontStruct preview if you zoom in or out, but if you download it, it will look sharp at size 16 or 12 (depending on the program).

some letters arent very legible, feel free to comment suggestions or improvements for it

work in progress… look closely. any suggestions welcome

My note: db Monuck is NOT a color font. When creating the font, I had created different versions in different layers, which can no longer be deleted.  Now, despite everything, the note "Color Font" appears, although it is not.

Please can someone help me to solve the problem? 
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Many thanks for your help, the problem has been solved. ☼ 
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An outline version of Blueback, with slightly different proportions, x-height: 2⅛ bricks.

The amount of motivation to complete a fontstuction is directly proportion to the amount of PhD work that requires doing. Apparently.

Inspired by the works of regular_one. Unlike most fonts I've released recently, many of the glyphs had to be modified or even redone from scratch.

- M, W, m, w, @, #, %, <, >, ~, and the circumflex above accented letters were all too wide and had to be condensed;

- I, f, i, j, l, r, and t were all too narrow and were expanded a bit, mostly through the careful application of serifs;

- K, M, W, X, Y, v, w, y, 7, /, and \ all had ugly mixes of angles that needed to be redesigned;

- N, *, (, and ) were completely redesigned, and many more touched up, to fit better with the rest of the font.

Most of the edits made were not possible before nudging. It's still not perfect, but it's much better than it was before, and I'm proud of how much it has "grown up". Of course, suggestions and critiques are encouraged. Thanks and enjoy!

Height 3 / Width 2 / Filters Ø 

An All-caps font on a 20x20 grid. Some alternates are in the Telugu block.

I have always loved Grafitti and although impossible to capture the spontaneity of spraying the underpass or my neighbour's wall, here is a possible alternative!