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“Karyotype” by Frodo7

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:41:06 +0000

Small is beautiful. I thought I could add a new spin to Stewf's little gem. I also expanded the character set a bit. It was fun.

“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

“Sessions” by afrojet

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:17:58 +0000

Having previously played around in Fontstruct with Anni Albers' textile patterns, I thought it time to turn my attention to her husband Josef's work. Josef Albers' constructivist typographic experiments are a perfect match for Fontstruct. Other Fontstructors have done great work with Alber's ideas. Most notably, Saberrider's fontsract and Stewf's Leaflet family. Using Josef Albers' Kombinationsschrift alphabet (1928-1931) as my foundation, I've been having a lot of fun remixing and experimenting with his letters. 'Sessions' is the first to get shared. Hopefully, more to come.

“WPA Gothic Deco” by Stewf

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:36:10 +0000

Caps from WPA Gothic in a low-waisted "deco" style.

“Leaflet Wide Stem” by Stewf

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:36:28 +0000

Wider stem for smaller point sizes. See the Leaflet Family.

“Leaflet Stem” by Stewf

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:01:40 +0000

With thanks to simple-deux for the idea of a vertical gap. See the entire Leaflet Family.

“Morricone” by Stewf

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:10:36 +0000

Named for the composer of music for Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns". Steeper diagonals achieved by setting vertical scaling to 2. Alternate A, V, and W with overshooting apexes. Alt S without serifs. Figures on the way. Still needs work, especially on the K and Z. Suggestions welcome. Here's a showing.

“Leaflet Gap” by Stewf

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:15:13 +0000

Much like MinimalBloc, Leaflet works better when the modular pieces are revealed. See the entire Leaflet Family.

“WPA Gothic” by Stewf

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:00:42 +0000

The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) was the largest agency of FDR's "New Deal", employing millions of people. Over 2,000 posters were produced by the W.P.A. to raise awareness and support the arts. I have a lot of admiration for these posters and a style of sign painters' lettering that was common in the U.S. during the 1930s-'40s. WPA Gothic gets much of its inspiration from this poster in particular. This FontStruction stays true to the sample’s simple letterforms, but the FontStruct grid does present a few limitations. For more refined typefaces of this style check out Futura Display, Tourist Gothic, FF Moderne Gothics, Refrigerator, and MVB Solano Gothic by some of my favorite type designers, two of which (Van Bronkhorst and Parkinson) are East Bay natives. WPA Gothic has a few alternate glyphs hanging out in the Extended Latin slots with more to come. To get a look at the typeface outside the confines of the FontStruct sampler, here's a sample poster. May 25, 2008: Released a variation with low-waisted "deco" caps.

“Varsity” by Stewf

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:52:40 +0000

An athletic slab for jerseys, letterman jackets, giant hillside letters, ball caps, or launching your own line of trendy teen apparel. All caps. Some (generally wider) alternates in the lowercase slots. Figures on the way. Other, more refined fonts in this style include Princetown and Yearbook.