http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/gallery/all/rating/descending/1/any_category/any_license/with_options/Surprise en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:45:30 +0000 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:45:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CakePHP <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/195690/1" alt="" /><br />:) http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/195690 <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/195690/1" alt="" /><br />:) Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:18:23 +0000 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/195690 <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/187237/1" alt="" /><br />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 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/187237 <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/187237/1" alt="" /><br />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 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:14:41 +0000 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/187237 <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/78388/1" alt="" /><br />After moving to a house on its own block, a party was in order and with it, a new typeface was developed to direct people around the new pad. The upper-case shifts up a block, and the 'fi' and 'fl' ligatures have a surprise for the people. Here's a sample in action. If you do decide to use Font Block, we'd be chuffed if you emailed us images of it in use, thanks. http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/78388 <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/78388/1" alt="" /><br />After moving to a house on its own block, a party was in order and with it, a new typeface was developed to direct people around the new pad. The upper-case shifts up a block, and the 'fi' and 'fl' ligatures have a surprise for the people. Here's a sample in action. If you do decide to use Font Block, we'd be chuffed if you emailed us images of it in use, thanks. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:26:34 +0000 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/78388 <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/52186/1" alt="" /><br />Jotted down the roots of this months ago in a squared moleskine... Viva Fontstruct! This is heaven-sent. Compared it to 'Stitches' in the gallery and not to my surprise some characters are identical. But the word-images are more open and there's lowercase included. Narrowing the playground and keeping it fun was the challenge. Reactions are welcome. http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/52186 <img src="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/get_preview/52186/1" alt="" /><br />Jotted down the roots of this months ago in a squared moleskine... Viva Fontstruct! This is heaven-sent. Compared it to 'Stitches' in the gallery and not to my surprise some characters are identical. But the word-images are more open and there's lowercase included. Narrowing the playground and keeping it fun was the challenge. Reactions are welcome. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:45:10 +0000 http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/52186