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This is still work in progress, a lot of characters missing. There are only UPPERCASE characters available, I filled the lowercase letters with random symbols/patterns. The design is based on this stamp design from 1978 by Gert Dumbar. Use font sizes 64, 128 or 256px. Set leading to 24 (for font size 64), 48 (for 128) and 96 (for 256). More information
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87 characters, 192 downloads
Created:
Fri, 6th June, 7:32 AM 2008
Last Edit:
Sun, 4th January, 10:50 AM 2009
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http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/58269
Tags:
Stamp, Perforation, Display
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SquarePeg
SquarePeg Fri, 6th June, 2008

This is really nice work; congratulations! I have seen Dumbar's stamp design elsewhere, but I can't recall if I've ever seen a typeface based on it. I hope you will continue to work on this!

nitrada
nitrada Sat, 7th June, 2008

Great to hear that you like it! :-) I'll continue to work on it for sure, don't know how many characters I'll do though. At least some more punctuation and symbols as well as numbers ...

Em42
Em42 Mon, 9th June, 2008

Fantastic!

To see the font in action is worth more than description.

Even if the concept may not be 100% original, it is laid out with an amazing consistency!

nitrada
nitrada Mon, 9th June, 2008

I actually saw the Dumbar stamp and since I always wanted to try out fontstruct, I just started building it and got seriously pulled in over the weekend! :-) I'm sure there already is another font using this kind of perforation raster, just couldn't find it yet. Or do you mean the general (modular) concept?

Em42
Em42 Mon, 9th June, 2008

I'm sorry I was not clear enough... :)

As you say in the description, the concept is from Dumbar's stamp design, that's why I said that your concept was not 100% original.

But I really like the way you created a font set with huge personality starting from that concept.

subway24
subway24 Mon, 30th June, 2008

This font is so cool! I love it! I can't download it though because my computer is out of disk space :-(

Stewf
Stewf Tue, 22nd July, 2008

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righttype
righttype Fri, 8th August, 2008

Very nice!

thalamic
thalamic Fri, 22nd August, 2008

I don't know how I missed this one. This is modular font design at it's best. The way each character is ready to be torn-off, just like a stamp sheet...EXCELLENT.

domald
domald Fri, 30th October, 1:16 PM

nice work. was going to do a solid infill on my lowercase... http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/241847

funk_king
funk_king Fri, 30th October, 1:59 PM

righteous :)

igorrossi
igorrossi Fri, 30th October, 3:07 PM

Great work. I am something like a serial lettering-to-complete set maker and I love what you did here.