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“Sans Serious V” by afrojet

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:43:30 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

“Werner Paperclip” by funk_king

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:30:34 +0000

this is a recreation of Paperclip by Ad Werner c. 1974 that i came across from this Dutch Type shared by Afrojet when he introduced his Sans Serious series :) thanks for inspiration. i was able to remain faithful to the original for the most part, but had to make some changes in some glyphs - some major and some minor. but i think it maintains the spirit of the original. i looked around on the web and didn't come across this in a digitized font, which surprised me and presented the opportunity to do this one for prosperity. the ligature for ij is @.

“Brutal Exchange of a Smug for Some Faith” by afrojet

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:38:48 +0000

A play on brickstacking, 'Brutal' is an experiment in creating a one brick fontstruction for multilayered screen printing. To use this font, you simply need to layer the uppercase alphabet on top of (or underneath) the lowercase alphabet (see below for a sample). Obviously, it doesn't look like much in the Fontstruct preview. The inspiration for this typeface came about when I was putting together this Flickr gallery of modular multi-colored lettering. The first 25 downloads are all mine. It was a hard one to test.

“Hunstruct Tall” by afrojet

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:56:42 +0000

Hunstruct's taller cousin.

“Hunstruct” by afrojet

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:39:39 +0000

Hunstrüct is my first attempt at designing a contemporary blackletter typeface within Fontstruct. The typeface draws inspiration from the long tradition of German Fraktur styled blackletters. The name Hunstrück is taken from a mountain range in Germany called the Hunsrück. Primarily I was aiming to build a face that would work well as a display type for gig posters and larger headlines but as I reworked the typeface I tried to strike a balance between text and display. Big thanks goes to djnippa for his hard work in spacing this font properly.

“Dot Dot Hex” by minimum

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:20:14 +0000

Bitten by afrojet's coloring technique. In fact this fontstruction owes its completion merely to try out his technique. Thanks, aj.

“Sans Serious III” by afrojet

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:14:49 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

“FS Collaboration 1” by collab

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:41:31 +0000

This is the community font currently being worked on by some of the FontStructors :) funk_king - F I K L U c f k p u djnippa - a e g D N z i M kix - R S d t H Axel Leyer - G n h thalamic - A T m X Y & aphoria - O J q geneus1 - B C E Z s afrojet - Q W magic_sam - P o v y JoeAllison - b jhejka - V w 2 + saberrider - j l x Please add your details once completed.

“Sans Serious II” by afrojet

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:14:33 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

“Sans Serious I” by afrojet

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:26 +0000

The ‘Sans Serious’ Series is a group of tribute typefaces meant to honor Dutch designer and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer. Along with Wim Crouwel and Josef Albers, Jurrian Schrofer (1926 - 1990) was among the Bauhaus pioneers of grid-based modular typography and design. Schrofer's work experimented with type, light, and color and focused on mathematical shapes and pattern. From the book ‘Dutch Type’ by Jan Middendorp: “Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily called Sans serious - but this was never his goal. ‘Is it necessary’, he wrote, ‘to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes’ Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms ‘made to measure’ as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, ‘Les textes sociologiques’ from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids.” “In his booklet ‘Letters op maat’ (‘Type made to measure’, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven.” Read more from ‘Dutch Type’. Image from Letters op matt. More images of Jurriaan Schrofer's work on Flickr: Schrofer in Total Design book. Cover for European Journal of Social Psycology Museumjournaal, design Jurriaan Schrofer Die Internationale Avant-Garde Jurriaan Schrofer - Fodor catalog Note: for all fonts in the ‘Sans Serious’ Series, the alphabet is the same for upper and lowercase.