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“Slug” by afrojet

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:25:24 +0000

This is a Sessions flavored remix of Saberrider's wonderful Poff font.

“ripper” by saberrider

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:04:39 +0000

Please see the samples in the comments. Using a new technique that combines 1.8 scaling and diagonals.

“nightshift” by saberrider

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:29:53 +0000

“FS Collaboration 1” by collab

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:41:31 +0000

This is the community font currently being worked on by some of the FontStructors :) funk_king - F I K L U c f k p u djnippa - a e g D N z i M kix - R S d t H Axel Leyer - G n h thalamic - A T m X Y & aphoria - O J q geneus1 - B C E Z s afrojet - Q W magic_sam - P o v y JoeAllison - b jhejka - V w 2 + saberrider - j l x Please add your details once completed.

“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.

“boulder” by saberrider

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:57:00 +0000

“letter case” by saberrider

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:09:06 +0000

imitating lead lettering this took an awful lot of time again :/ i know the letters should actually be mirrored like on real lead letters but i prefered readability. i'm not that happy with the result. but i guess it's as good as it gets. use "_" for a filling glyph. may take some time till the download starts, i used a LOT of bricks. :o

“mikado” by saberrider

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:13:19 +0000

it looks so simple but this one was so hard to do. because of the high resolution i was working on my browser used to freeze several times during process.

“monobono” by saberrider

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:57:40 +0000