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by kix


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Description:
This took me many, many hours of trying, learning, erasing and restarting. Especially the design of the caps was hard; sooo many possibilities! However, i'm proud to present you my first real blackletter font :) I would like to add some more glyphs to the "more latin" set, but the size seems to be close to the download limit. It's downloadable yet, but i had to erase some glyphs... ps: there's an alternate "a" on "@", and some decorative stuff on "#" and "*". cheers
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83 characters, 245 downloads
Created:
Wed, 1st October, 4:56 AM 2008
Last Edit:
Thu, 25th June, 4:50 AM 2009
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Discussion

kix
kix Thu, 4th June, 7:17 PM

minimum
minimum Thu, 4th June, 8:07 PM

Supreme expression of the style. Gorgeous samples. Every. Single. Letter. Is. Beautiful.

geneus1
geneus1 Thu, 4th June, 8:46 PM

I'm going blind from over-exposure to pure awesomeness! Unbelievable. My new favorite blackletter. Masterfully crafted. Beyond "practice." Oh, the beauticity.

That is so sharp you can get cut just by looking at i- OWW!

afrojet
afrojet Thu, 4th June, 9:42 PM

Baby, you were born to blackletter.

aphoria
aphoria Fri, 5th June, 12:04 AM

Damn.

The entire set is excellent, but the uppercase blows my mind.

djnippa
djnippa Fri, 5th June, 2:49 AM

Simply superb. Love the way the Upper Case has a 3D feeling about it.

I can understand about the hours & hours to do thing. I've got two Black Letter fontstructs waiting to be completed. The upper case is soooo tricky to get something contemporary, yet still retaining the old style.

Ieally brilliant effort kix. 10

funk_king
funk_king Fri, 5th June, 4:54 AM

yes, outstanding ;)

thalamic
thalamic Fri, 5th June, 6:00 AM

Holy Stuttgart, that is beautiful! When you said you were doing blackbetter, you really, really meant it. I'm going to go read the Gutenberg bible now.

Axel Leyer
Axel Leyer Fri, 5th June, 7:50 AM

Amazing!, love the lowercase, especially g,k,z...
The uppercase is just gorgeous! this is 10!
Really outstanding what you did here!

kix
kix Fri, 5th June, 11:24 AM

thanks for your kind comments beloved communitiy :)
"blackbetter" was my first attempt on old styles. it will soon be re-published. stay tuned

guentersen
guentersen Fri, 5th June, 6:03 PM

... also das kleine zett is ja wohl ein oberhammer ...

here you can see, that the old monks drew modular letterforms ;)

kix = font-god!

SquarePeg
SquarePeg Sat, 6th June, 1:13 AM

I remember blackbetter, kix! You've come a long way! Extra points for having an umlaut in the font's name. :-)

Ixel
Ixel Sat, 6th June, 6:21 PM

!! respect !! very well crafted!

perfect 10.0

intaglio
intaglio Sun, 7th June, 5:17 AM

I wonder if we'll ever see a better blackletter in FS. That x! r! k!

shasta
shasta Tue, 9th June, 6:11 PM

pure perfection. i wouldn't believe this was made in fontstruct if i didn't see it right here.

i guess commercial font designers should finally start to be scared by fontstruct. fonts like this one are gonna make them lose quite a few clients.

nur das kleine w juckt mich mit seiner assymetrie irgendwie ein klein wenig im auge... weiss aber nicht ob mich die symmetrische version nicht auch jucken tät... das problem könnt also auch am auge liegen.;)

kix
kix Tue, 9th June, 7:18 PM

Hi shasta. danke :)
das mit dem "w" is so ne sache...
ich glaube ich hätte gar nicht mal was gegen assymetrie, aber das wär GEGEN die hauptprämisse dieses fonts.
Nämlich der Form der Kalligrafiespitze treu zu bleiben.
In diesem fall etwa so geformt, wie ein "accent aigu". Ich finde, für eine schrift, wie diese, eine der wichtigsten eigenschaften, um hinterher auch authentizität auszustrahlen.
so... i think it will stay as it is :)

saberrider
saberrider Thu, 11th June, 12:56 AM

no f***ing way this isn't a top pick yet. I got really disappointed by the recent dedication of the staff. it's like most of the recent really awesome fonts which should have been top picks were overlooked. also the new top pick is kinda boring compared to fonts like this beauty. i'd like to know if there's a way to become a staff member. i check the site like every day but it just isn't as much fun since the top picks just seem to be random because the staff seems to only check the last 2 pages of new fontstructions though they only visit the site twice a month or something. :(

About this beauty: Kix, get into real fonts, I know I propably repeat myself, but your talent is overwhelming. There's no way to tell what you'd be able to do with real path constructed fonts. ;)

geneus1
geneus1 Thu, 11th June, 3:06 AM

Ditto what saber said. I can hardly believe you've even shared this one, kix. So first, thanks for sharing. I would have saved this fontstruction for a professional release. Shortly after you shared this, I was checking out other retail blackletter fonts. My main thought was that Underwörld should be among them. It reveals a sophisticated maturity in your work. It's brilliant.

gferreira
gferreira Thu, 11th June, 5:38 AM

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

meek
meek Thu, 11th June, 6:29 AM

@saberrider you're completely right. there has been a lapse in top picking recently. this is a fantastic example of that! we'll catch up as soon as we can. the great news is, we've got a new staff member on board who will work on the top picks as well, as many other parts of FontStruct. he's just started so please be patient.

Stewf
Stewf Thu, 11th June, 7:01 AM

There is no doubt this is a landmark FontStruction. The missing Top Pick badge is as much my fault as anyone’s as I haven’t been able to dedicate myself to Gallery maintenance over the last couple of weeks.

Fortunately, with the addition of Gustavo to the team, such delays will be much more rare. Congrats on a fine piece of work, kix, and welcome, Gustavo!

kix
kix Fri, 12th June, 8:41 PM

thanks again for the featured download!

thanks again for the featured download!
intaglio
intaglio Fri, 12th June, 11:05 PM

kix, you're already a millionaire.

sahwar
sahwar Sat, 13th June, 10:17 AM

Kix, you've outdone yourself!
Brilliant fontsetting and the letters themselves are truly magnificent! :)

P.S. I didn't know that there is a size limit to the download files! Does anyone know more about this?

MustardMan
MustardMan Sat, 13th June, 11:12 AM

Wohoooo, das Teil ist ja mal der Hammer!!! Respekt und Anerkennung!!! Ich werde ein paar Stunden brauchen um meine Kinnlade wieder hoch zu klappen! Mir fehl'n die Worte - du lässt hier 99,9% der Leute aussehen wie toys :-D Man man man, ich brauch n Kaffee.

chavez ravine
chavez ravine Sat, 13th June, 3:17 PM

And that was made only with Fonstruct? It's a really hard work.

wolfkrim
wolfkrim Mon, 15th June, 10:01 AM

Wow! This is wonderful. And a lot of work. Well balanced contemporary and traditional look. Please look at my (no top pick) "Tension" http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/tensionwhich I thought was quite good until I saw this masterpiece. Respect, kix!

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Mon, 15th June, 10:23 AM

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wieder einmal ein eindrucksvolles Beispiel, was mit Fontstruct so alles möglich ist.

jmarquez
jmarquez Mon, 15th June, 4:22 PM

(oh mein gott!) Great Font!

dada
dada Mon, 15th June, 8:37 PM

superb

NewOrder
NewOrder Tue, 16th June, 3:09 AM

Coño qué trabajo tan limpio y tan detallado para haberse hecho en esta aplicación!!!!

afrojet
afrojet Wed, 17th June, 5:50 AM

The more I play with Underwörld, the more I love it. Works great with the Braumarks.

The more I play with Underwörld, the more I love it. Works great with the Braumarks.
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Pingpong4497
Pingpong4497 Thu, 18th June, 9:49 AM

Well done. This is one of the best fonts I have seen, and have seen many, trust me. I connot wait until this font is expanded a bit more (i.e. the characters @#$%^&*() etc). I hope you are proud of your work, because we all are. :)

laynecom
laynecom Thu, 18th June, 8:56 PM

this is perfect in so many ways. not a single character i don't like. superb!

auroraspirit
auroraspirit Fri, 19th June, 3:50 AM

It's beautiful! I am trying to make a font whith no charge but the hand-writing scans are $9.00! but I love your font and good luck as an artist in the future!

- a dragon artist!

check out my drawings on my website @ www.freewebs.com/polarstar-aurora
WELCOME ALL ARTISTS

prototype
prototype Fri, 19th June, 4:49 PM

kix, - you need fresh brick...xxx...-> s.
(in order to beat YOURSELF ...)
Great work!


kix
kix Fri, 19th June, 8:32 PM

Thanks all again :)

@a-jet:
that "bierdeckel" is so awesome beautiful. i l<3ve it!!!

We should collab on a BEERFONT, haha

qwertyacme
qwertyacme Sun, 21st June, 12:06 PM

oh. my. god. -a must download. :D
five stars.

skysister
skysister Sun, 21st June, 11:34 PM

FABULOUS!!! And so readable! Whoa!

p2pnut
p2pnut Mon, 22nd June, 4:09 PM

I'm quite new to FontStruct and am still dabbling my toes in the 'shallow end'. Then I saw this font and realised that there is a whole ocean of possibility.

You have created a font that can stand proud against any ... whatever the design medium.

It's beautiful - and an inspiration to us newbies.

jinx
jinx Wed, 12th August, 8:35 PM

incredible. Upper case is fantastic. Great examples too!

Guyom
Guyom Tue, 15th September, 4:01 PM

Nice One, many thanks ;)

DarkAge
DarkAge Tue, 15th September, 10:59 PM

can you increase the size of the 12 size! is too smal! =[

thanks!

kix
kix Wed, 30th September, 10:37 AM

@darkage:

I don't understand

p2pnut
p2pnut Wed, 30th September, 11:46 AM

@kix: I suspect DarkAge has come up against the fact that downloaded fonts tend to look rather small in conventional text point sizes (12pt in this case, by the sound of it).

@DarkAge: You will just have to use a greater point size to achieve the effect of 'normal' 12pt - experiment with different sizes 'till you get the right look.

SimonRobertson
SimonRobertson Sun, 25th October, 2:41 PM

i just discovered this! freakign amazing! congrats!!!!