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“leaf+ona” by eduardochang

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:57:05 +0000

cloned from leaflet stem, played around with the height and some symbols, comment if you like it.

“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.

“leafless gap” by joelh

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:10:14 +0000

Clone of Leaflet Gap.

“rino1” by ok4433

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:32:35 +0000

Clone of Leaflet Gap.

“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.

“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.

“Leaflet” by Stewf

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:24:11 +0000

A tender little geometric thing, inspired in equal parts by nature and the Bauhaus. Lowercase only for now. A variation that reveals the bricks is also available. Now more variations. See the Leaflet Family.