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by PJKC


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Description:
Frakture was a project for a typography class. The intention was to create a medium blackletter typeface that can be use for display. A lot of work is left to be done.
Stats:
32 characters, 14 downloads
Created:
Mon, 5th October, 1:28 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Mon, 12th October, 11:28 AM 2009
Permalink:
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/237387
Tags:
Fraktur, Blackletters
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Discussion

CMunk
CMunk Tue, 3rd November, 9:16 AM

Looks very promising. I am really looking forward to the rest of the upper case. 10/10

gferreira
gferreira Tue, 3rd November, 12:42 PM

This is fabulous – one of the best Frakturs in FontStruct so far (and there are several good ones!), in my humble opinion. Please do continue.

sebastianberns
sebastianberns Tue, 3rd November, 1:24 PM

Yes, yes, keep it up! Amazing thus far…

aphoria
aphoria Tue, 3rd November, 1:40 PM

Awesome...keep going!

djnippa
djnippa Tue, 3rd November, 2:12 PM

Looks superb. Lot of work ahead, but keep going.
Is it based on anything in particular?

p2pnut
p2pnut Tue, 3rd November, 4:50 PM

This is amazing work - all the more so for being a first FontStruction.

I noticed that you have come up against the usual problem of joining certain combinations of bricks. Well help is at hand ... djnippa has created a most useful guide to 'brick stacking' - http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/ncd_brick_stacker_one_grid

To show you the value of this I have done a sample of your E, with the brick stacked version on the right -


Hope this helps :)

This is amazing work - all the more so for being a first FontStruction. <br/> <br/>I noticed that you have come up against the usual problem of joining certain combinations of bricks. Well help is at hand ... djnippa has created a most useful guide to 'brick stacking' - http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/ncd_brick_stacker_one_grid <br/> <br/>To show you the value of this I have done a sample of your E, with the brick stacked version on the right - <br/> <br/> <br/>Hope this helps :)
PJKC
PJKC Wed, 4th November, 7:01 AM

Thanks everyone for the support. I will keep working on it for sure.

The suggestion about brick stacking is great, p2pnut. I will sure be using this technique.

Does anyone have a suggestion to which capital letters I should tackle next?

p2pnut
p2pnut Wed, 4th November, 11:45 AM

Glad that helped ... where nippa leads, we humbly follow :)

As to which U/C to do next - I tend to go for ones that have some common feature with other glyphs, so that I can copy them (save so much time). So, with a more standard font, I might start with the O as that gives me elements to use on C, D and Q. Then I often do the B which gives me the basis for the E, F, P, R and so on. However, with an ornate font like this, that process has a far more limited application ... so I would just go for the ones I enjoy doing at the time :)

Stewf
Stewf Wed, 4th November, 10:35 PM

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Frakture” is now a Top Pick.