geneus1: FontStructions

Happy Halloween

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Updated Halloween dingbats. A- Happy Haloween B- Pumpkin grin C- Cat on fence D- Skull E- Witch F- Pumpkin face by kix G- Bats by kix H- Frank I- Graveyard J- Haunted House K- Ghostie L- Mummy M- Eyeball N- Started off as dracula, but ended up looking like Raam, the final boss in Gears of War O- Trick or Treat PQRST- various pumpkinheads

IsoMatrix 3D

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Mostly inspired by the video game QBert, which was, I'm sure, partly inspired by M. C. Escher. IsoMatrix was a font long before Fontstruct, and was much harder to realize with bricks than vectors. This one is shared thanks to the intricate 3D output of the following fontstructors: shasta's Escheresk, frodo's Hommage a Escher, and funk king's Soma. It is also released for Em42, because it was created purely with the original set of bricks that Fontstruct started out with.

Legality

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The last and most difficult of the sharp serif experiments. Created on an 8 wide by 5 high base grid space. Unconventionally fontstructed while adhering to the impositions of the law of the brick. What do I mean? Just try recreating the letter A. It shouldn't be possible, so I did it anyway.

Petrissage

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Petrissage. The 6 x 6 grid experiment.

Effleurage

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Effleurage brick massage. Sharp and curvy 6x10 grid space experiment. Weird spacing due to double size filtering in conjunction with half bricks makes this mostly unusable. But that's why there's alternate spaced letters instead of numbers...for now. The spacing is compensated to look better in actual use than on the preview. Minimal space tweaking was done on the sample, but wherever the spacing was really off (which was pretty much everywhere), the alternate space character was used. Alt spacing characters: a = 1 s = 2 x = 3 z = 4 Z = 5 S = 6 e = 7 o = 8 t = \ g = ^ s = | Ligatures: fi = @ ff = _ fl = # ffl = /

Karuso 68

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Karuso. As in Robinson Caruso. Because it should be shipwrecked on a deserted island. That's where I planned to leave it in private (and you're probably thinking that's where I should have left it). Check the creation date - it's been stranded for a while. This is the first in a set of text face experiments, and it reveals the beginnings of an evolution of high contrast fontstructing over a minimized grid space. Not all glyphs are how I wanted them to be. Some may be hideous. The spacing is terrible. But as a fontstruction, this one really got me to push the bricks to develop some resemblance of a Times Romanesque sharp serif typeface. Many, many tricks had to come in to play to make this happen at its current state. Overlapping bricks, brick stacking, overlapping brick stacking. It's all in there. I learned a lot from this insane attempt just from the lowercase letter forms alone. I mean, just look at that g! Try it at your own risk. 6x8 grid space, Double XY. But don't worry, this is as bad as it gets. It does get better from here, but only a little bit, so don't get your hopes up. Stay tuned.

Glossierre

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Inspired by an older Futura-esque work of williaum. A glossy, blocky, 1.8 scale triple-stacker. Zoom in! Caps have glossy highlights, lowercase is filled.

Slink

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

A tribute to Josef Albers: inadvertently inspired by saberrider and afrojet. This font totally happened by accident. Recently, saberrider created steep, which uses a 2.0 x 1.11 filter setting to smoothly blend the quarter-circle bricks into the triangles. After saberrider created his experimental variable scale fontstruction, it lead me to revisit an abandoned work I did from last year that was done in a similar scale. After getting over the initial disgust of looking at the dismal failure, I started tweaking. Then I decided to tweak the letters instead. It became apparent that I could create a stencil type font that also looked like Josef Alber's font. Coincidentally, Saberrider also has a variation with fontstract, and of course, that Stewf guy has his own family of Leaflets. ;-) Afrojet's sessions came into play in creating some of the letter forms, especially the numerals. The final filter setting became 1.638 x 1.08, which created a nice fusion of the curved and triangular bricks, but was also naturally inclined to necessitate the vertical divide on each glyph. The rest flowed rather easily from there. Here's to more happy accidents. =) The sample is also a tribute to Alber's color theory, showing the names in identical colors, which, when juxtaposed over contrasting colors tricks the eye into thinking the bottom name is darker than the top. The following Josef Albers quote can relate to all things creative, like fontstructing, not just color: "It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories. As we begin principally with the material, color itself, and its action and interaction as registered in our minds, we practice first and mainly a study of ourselves. Thus, we replace looking backward by looking first at ourselves and our surroundings, and replace retrospection with introspection." - Josef Albers

HulkSmash

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Don't get this font angry. You wouldn't like it when its angry. UC is cracked, LC is solid. Cracked period = "," Cracked exclamations = "@" Cracked questionmark = "/"

Transformicon

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Because I didn't get out my Star Trek or Wolverine fonts out in time for their opening days. If Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen were a typeface, it would be the flashiest headline display font, with very little readability, but it would contain the most explosions and roboticity you've ever seen, with a hint of Megan Fox running in slow motion. With respect to the Terrible for already doing this before.

Futuro Extra Bold

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Futura-esque Bold Sans Serif.

Bevelicious

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Inspired by minimum. This fontstruction employs a variation of the outstanding shading technique used by minimum on the bevel series. Thanks to meek and the Fontstruct staff for fixing the download.

The PacMan

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It's PacMan fever all over again! This was inspired by the world's best pound for pound boxer, Manny Pacquiao, a.k.a. "PacMan." His awesome knockout bout with Ricky Hatton last Saturday, May 2nd, in Las Vegas, marked a major victory in the acquisition of his 6th world title. His hands are so fast I have to wait for the slo-mo to figure out what happened.
The letters M & P from Manny Pacquiao's logo became the foundation to create all of the letters in this font. The logo resides on the capital A, the rest of the letters are in the lower case. Enjoy.
"I'm gonna knock you out! Mama said knock you out! Breakdown!" -LL

Framestore

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the funk_king. The stems were created by extending the letter o from mr. funk_king's hemisphere fontstruction. Then things go haywire from there. This was hard, so I took a simpler approach to most of the letterforms for speed's sake. Thanks to meek and the Fontstruct staff for fixing the download.

HammerSlab

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the fantastic entries in the FontStruct Slab Serif Gallery, here's my first attempt at a Fat Slab. It's got hard hammered edges but with soft and rounded velvety serifs.

Bubble Lab EF

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The continuation of the new and exciting Bubble Lab Collab started by kix and william right here.
Comment, sign on, and get your game on over there.
AB -kix
CD -williaum
EF -geneus1

Two battle cries from the Fantastic Four.
E= Battle Cry of the Thing
F= Battle Cry of the Human Torch drawn with old school comic book flame lines.

Fluoralyte

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Just like Fluoralei, but with a lighter pattern that extends thru each horizontonal bar.

Tangience

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Tangience. A fractionally scaled fontstruction utilizing a molecular coagulation of fused tangent circles. Best viewed magnified under an electron microscope.

structurocca

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This takes the Structurozza modification and implements global brick replacements using the pentagonal bricks.

filmstryp

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

filmstryp. Now I can promise people to get their name on film. Negative space connecting font. Even added a little 3D effect. Uppercase only with some spacing variance on the lowercase. {}[]()<> are openers and closers.