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“Broadway” by kix

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:24:46 +0000

the DOT experience continues... It gives you an unexpected kind of FREEDOM creating lines with dots. This time i doubled the resolution by using 2x2 circles. Finally your eye can help making curves of any size look complete and entirely smooth! Oh my god... I see more possibilities now than ever before!! That technique of "dotting", as i call it, will make my brain bust, i guess. :P May the force be with me!

“Becker Large” by gingerbeardman

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:11:09 +0000

One of the fonts used on the Becker Cascade in-car satellite navigation system. This is the large font mainly used in media mode for song name display. Original font remains © Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH. Redrawn by hand/eye. I've created characters that I had reference material for and created my own variations of characters that can be deduced from the rest of the set.

“Slink” by geneus1

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:14:41 +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

“molecular complex 2” by funk_king

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:28:21 +0000

after finishing, this struck me as reminiscent of escher with its ability to transform and fool the eye :)

“Elder Futhark” by evchim

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:42:47 +0000

These are the Runes that Odin gave an eye to learn. I have put them in an easy to use configuration on the keyboard. The "th" Runes is the "," key and the "ing" Rune is the ";" key. I've also put bind-Runes of equivolent phonetic value on the "q" and "x" keys because they have no Runes of their own.

“Becker Regular” by gingerbeardman

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:57:27 +0000

One of the fonts used on the Becker Cascade in-car satellite navigation system. This is the regular font mainly used for non-selected menu items. Original font remains © Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH. Redrawn by hand/eye. I've created characters that I had reference material for and created my own variations of characters that can be deduced from the rest of the set.

“eye pain” by saberrider

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:29:13 +0000

this was inspired by an optical illusion that says "no sex causes bad eyes" and is very hard to read unless you look at it from distance. ( and ) include signs for start or ending a sentence respectively. _ will create a appropriate space.

“RM Eye Test” by p2pnut

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:24 +0000

This is based on the Snellen Eye Chart. The l/c is reversed as opticians sometimes use a mirror to reflect the chart (which is placed behind the patient).

“Early Bird catches the Worm” by chr.s

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:13:23 +0000

Bird's eye view or Worm's eye view. Or use alternate cases to create a zig-zag effect.

“Becker Bold” by gingerbeardman

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:52:59 +0000

One of the fonts used on the Becker Cascade in-car satellite navigation system. This is the bold font most notably used on the data entry (A-Z) menu. Original font remains © Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH. Redrawn by hand/eye. I've created characters that I had reference material for and created my own variations of characters that can be deduced from the rest of the set.