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by afrojet
cloned from Playtime Rounded by afrojet, and Playtime by afrojet
see also OneMoreTime by Magic Sam, and Playtime Pattern Motifs by afrojet, and Playtime Bold by afrojet


Details

Description:
The Playtime Family. A product of being completely snowed in all weekend and spending a lot of time playing blocks and legos with the kid. Even when I'm not fontstructing I'm still playing with bricks.
Stats:
104 characters, 121 downloads
Created:
Mon, 22nd December, 2:23 PM 2008
Last Edit:
Tue, 26th May, 8:51 PM 2009
Permalink:
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/132088
Tags:
Playtime, Blocks, Minimal, Monoline, Rounded, Bold, Black, Heavy
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Discussion

afrojet
afrojet Mon, 22nd December, 2008

Edited 'm' and 'w'.

Edited 'm' and 'w'.
funk_king
funk_king Mon, 22nd December, 2008

wow!

intaglio
intaglio Mon, 22nd December, 2008

also terrific. Funny how the centre squares look brighter in the sample.

geneus1
geneus1 Tue, 23rd December, 2008

My favorite of the Playtime set. I like way it seems to have a crosshair targeting the center of each glyph.

Stewf
Stewf Tue, 23rd December, 2008

The 'x' and 'v' solutions are brilliant. I think that the 'w' and 'm' should just go ahead and take twice the width of the grid.

Em42
Em42 Tue, 23rd December, 2008

Blocky playful squared letters: an oxymoron as a font... Wonderful!

afrojet
afrojet Tue, 23rd December, 2008

Thanks all for the feedback. @geneus1: Funny that. When it came down to naming the font, it was between crosshair and playtime. In the end I felt crosshair was to literal and didn't fit the mood I was in at the time of 'structin. @intaglio: it's killing me that I can't immediately place your avatar image. Who?

afrojet
afrojet Tue, 23rd December, 2008

@Stewf: Thanks for lending your third eye. To be clear, you're proposing the following, correct?

@Stewf: Thanks for lending your third eye. To be clear, you're proposing the following, correct?
Stewf
Stewf Tue, 23rd December, 2008

That works. Though I was thinking using the existing side as the middle leg and then just mirroring the body again.

thalamic
thalamic Tue, 23rd December, 2008

*swoon* I'm in love.

intaglio
intaglio Tue, 23rd December, 2008

@afrojet: Think Picasso of the piano. I'm a tease, aren't I.

afrojet
afrojet Wed, 24th December, 2008

@Intaglio: Billy Joel? ;-)
The boy and I were at the grocery store last night and we went to check out this massive snow plow that was parked in the lot. It was filled with a million little gadgets and knobs. But there on the drivers seat was a Thelonious Monk CD case. I felt better knowing that the streets were being availed of their burden by a man quietly listening to 'Straight No Chaser' as he pushed his machine down the road.

intaglio
intaglio Wed, 24th December, 2008

Cigar.

I think "Evidence" is the single greatest jazz riff of all time. Not that I'm obsessed about Monk or anything.

meek
meek Thu, 25th December, 2008

Wonderful. I wish I had those letters in extruded plastic to play with them myself.

zenonithus
zenonithus Fri, 6th March, 9:28 AM

This font doesnt work in Photoshop CS2! :(

All I get is "??????" when I type.

zenonithus
zenonithus Fri, 6th March, 9:33 AM

...either that or it doesnt work on Windoes Vista

afrojet
afrojet Fri, 6th March, 9:35 AM

@zenonithus: playtime doesn't have any uppercase letters and will display the Fontstruct logo glyph when typed. But I'm not sure why you would be getting question marks (?). Anyone else have this problem or know what might be giving zenonithus this result? It works for me in CS3.

zenonithus
zenonithus Fri, 6th March, 9:42 AM

ahh, actually it does work, I just had capslock on....DOH! :)

afrojet
afrojet Fri, 6th March, 9:52 AM

Excellent. Glad you have it sorted out. I opened CS and found that a missing glyph renders nothing. I don't have CS2, but I presume that a missing glyph delivers a question mark instead of the Fontstruct symbol (as is the case in CS3). This is all coming from a Mac perspective. I don't know if it's different on Windows.