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“Skipper” by anTyp

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:17:40 -0800

“Hydroplane” by afrojet

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:45:53 -0800

I took this epic digger while mountain biking in the rain last Friday. No real damage besides a slightly bruised shoulder. But while kneeling on the ground and collecting my wits, I noticed the impression left by my tire treads in the mud and thought there might be a Fontruction idea in there. Hydroplane is the product of that and represents a desire to stay upright, moving forward, with two wheels firmly gripping the terra.

“FS_Minimal” by thalamic

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:03:50 -0800

I really like the way this one turned out. It uses minimal grid blocks to achieve the desired effect (although at ~2x2 and the slivers and the pinhole dots, there are a surprisingly large number of actual bricks used per glyph than evident at a quick glance, although not a single overlapping brick is used without express purpose). I think this is my favorite of all the ones I've done so far. It is with nervous anticipation that I let it free. Go forth and propagate, young font; it's You v World!

“Chunk-Chip” by thalamic

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:31:57 -0800

I've been seeing a lot of almost-completely-filled-blocks-with-chips-in-them kind of fonts lately. Quite well promoted too. I find most of them to be illegible. No matter what someone says about style and movement and period, to me, type exist to communicate, and legibility is the keystone of that functionality. If I can't decipher the glyph as a letter in a fraction of a second, the typeface has failed, no matter how beautiful it might be to look at as a graphic element. This is what I have tried to do here: taken a current trend and tried to make a legible typeface, staying within the parameters of said style. Most glyphs are quite legible but some are not, like s v w 0 8 9 & etc. I have failed as well. Plus I am not happy with the consistency—or lack thereof—either. It bothers me that the inside chips had to be rotated from character to character or move them about here and there. I did the uppercase as well...then deleted them all because I just couldn't resolve the similarity between H and N. I may have to find a less ______* new hobby.* stationary? senatory? Sitting around idle. What's the word am I looking for, intaglio?

“Skipper Stencil” by anTyp

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:40:28 -0800

“Rubrix” by geneus1

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:00:47 -0800

The alphabet in a Rubik's cube. Really, its in there. Just barely. Positive and negative versions, miraculously with some puntuation. Numerals are counted thru block spaces. The caps are given a 3D highlight to accentuate the block letters. Check out the Pixel Preview.

“Playtime Pattern Motifs” by afrojet

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:31:55 -0800

A few pattern motifs based upon the Playtime grid and retaining (for the most part) the central block.

“Nachahmung Block Serif” by thalamic

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:09:15 -0800

The 'why not' version...with a guentersen style heart at the dagger.

“empyreus” by intaglio

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:22:57 -0800

A cross between a slab and an I-don't-know-what. Works surprisingly well as a text face. Although it's quite quirky, setting it in a block seems to iron out the strangeness.

“Snipped” by meek

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:18:35 -0800

uc, lc roman, basic punctuation only.