nemoorange: FontStructions

Hermione Black

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

Started out trying just to make an old-school fontstruction, with no 23.5 degree angles. I had another version with slanted A V W, & X, but it looked more cohesive with everything all blocky. It'd be easy to use this template and build multiple weights.

Milius

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

The goal was to make a blackletter font with the fewest blocks necessary. I need to add all the other symbols. Not too happy with those Z's.

Rosslyn Square

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

Close of Rosslyn Regular. Bumped up the grid size to 16x16 so I could squeeze in lowercase characters.

Remigius

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

Font idea taken from the typography from posters for the Smashing Pumpkins Arising tour, back in 1999. As williaum has pointed out, that font is Ironwood. It occurred to me that it would make a very easy Fonstruction. And it was! It's the perfect font for your iron-on Motorhead t-shirt decal. Named after the curmudgeon monk in "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet.

Remigius Heavy

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

Remigius wasn't metal enough. Added another pixel of vertical line width and cut the counters to just one pixel. Now it's ready for the that MAYHEM tattoo you always wanted. Clone of Remigius. Rip of Ironwood.

Masphalt

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

A rip off of "Black Slabbath" by You Work For Them. Big chunky slabs. A personal favorite.

Bradshaw Bold

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

When the half-angle blocks were first introduced I thought I would be the last one to produce an old style or transistional sans-serif typeface. Looking through the gallery, I still don't see any attempts. Creating a serif font with blocks is very much a square peg for a round hole, but I enjoyed the challenge. I tried to emphasis all the minor details, like angled stress, or the bottom terminal of the lowercase b. I spent a lot of time on this months ago, but after a while, just lost the drive to complete all the characters. Maybe you're up to the task.

Squabble

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

Like Masphalt, the original inspiration for this one comes from Stefan Kjartansson's Black Slabbath. I think I played enough with it to make it my own. Like the two-story lowercase g and lowercase a. Squishing that middle stroke really gave this one a personality. I kept all the counters rectangular, try not to hide the hard edges. This is my first time going through the diacritics to give me a holler if you see something wrong.

Hamleigh

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

This started as one of my first fonstructions, but I never got around to finishing it. The capital letters proved too vexing. But the lower case came out well enough.

Tom Tussle

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

Pixel font = relaxation. Less blocks to worry about makes for more fun.

Rosslyn Regular

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

Thinking of a geometric typeface, a la Gotham. Lowercase F, P, T, V, W, and Y are combo-ed with A for proper kerning. 8x8 grid

Radish

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

Ben Day

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

Conceptual. Uses just 9 blocks.

Sally Shadow

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

Isometric, negative space.

Francero Wide

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

My take on Hellenic Wide, which I first saw in a Frank Chimero illustration. Some of his work looks ripped right out of the 50's and I love it. The capitals all fit pretty well into the FontStruct schema. I'd like to revisit this one sometime to see if it would work with a lighter stroke and skinnier character width.

Izack

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

Another experiment in breaking down the letterforms, trying to use the simplest shapes that would still hold true to the characters. Uppercase characters look fairly good, but the lowercase get a bit unreadable.

Curtis Heavy

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

work in progress. See also the CSS version, Curtis CSS.

Curtis Pixel 14

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

Phantsied

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

Inspired by the cursive aesthetic from pauldhunt's lovely Structurosa Script. I tried to play around with the kerning so there's the illusion of a continuous line.

Gretzatz

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

A fun font. mini curlz. Work in progress