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“Prometheus Shadow (Basic Set)” by SquarePeg

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:01:26 -0800

I've added a side shadow to Prometheus. The inspiration was a typeface from the French type foundry Peignot. Identified as "No. 1229" in their Lettres Fantaises of 1896, it sports a very fine side shadow, which I've attempted to re-create here. (I found the "No. 1229" sample on Hoefler & Frere-Jones' blog - fifth image from the top.) This FontStruction is split in two to make downloading possible. The Basic Set (this half) features all of the Basic Latin and More Latin characters, while the Extended Set has all of the Extended Latin A and several Extended Latin B characters (Latin-based diacritics for the Central European, West European, Baltic, and Romanian languages, plus special characters for Croatian, Slovenian, and Livonian, among others).

“pavement” by kix

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:27:14 -0800

inspired by stones on the street... this was like a "flash"! i started another new font, just NOT to forget the idea i had, which i use to do always, when i got lack of free time. usually i create 3-5 glyphs to remind myself of the style, etc... but this here took about, let's say 15 min of working time. it just flowed as if some"thing" leads my right hand :) ...more glyphs to come, when i got less other work to do. if i think about the fun this was, it won't take long. pace

“Coloring page” by ^.^

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:56:57 -0700

This font is a template. Clone it, make it beautiful, and share it. Don't just tweak it, make it your own. I'm sure you can think of something. There are a few circles floating around on spare characters in case you need them. Be warned, it has more squares per glyph than I've ever seen in a fontstruction, so there could be downloading troubles. Enjoy!

“woodcut” by funk_king

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:09:47 -0800

edit of one of my personal favorites. once again as they say less is more.

“Brainfreeze” by afrojet

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:18:09 -0800

The Slurpee Font - Created and fueled by an unhealthy summer obsession with the world's greatest beverage you can drink/eat with a straw. A little interweb research gave some hints at a few more glyphs than the initial six glyphs in the 'Slurpee' logo. In some cases, like with the 'c' glyph, I noticed that it had been drawn differently in different usage. See here and here. Being that the current Slurpee logo is Unicase, I decided to try and make uppercase and lowercase alternatives that can be mixed and matched for the unicase feel. See also Chank Diesel's wonderful font Cosmic, which draws from the old school Slurpee branding. P.S. The Monster Black Ice flavor that came out this summer was ridiculously awesome.

“LegoManiax” by geneus1

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:34:40 -0800

This was more of a test in using a lot of brick stacking, made popular by Williaum, and combining them with widened bricks. Each letter is a single lego brick just for simplicity's sake. Happy 50th Birthday to Lego.

“Chesterfield King” by afrojet

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:04:40 -0800

The Chesterfield Royal Family was formed from my desire to add new weights to the original Chesterfield typeface. In the process of drawing these new weights, I began modifying some of the forms of the new glyphs away from the original Chesterfield glyphs in order to build a more flexible brick/grid structure for the development of various weights. The most noticeable difference between these three new faces and the original is the lowered x-height. That said, there are still some compromises between the different weights and because of that I've given them these royalty names instead of the normal practice of light, regular, and bold weight names. One of the biggest compromises occurs in the Prince weight, where I was unable to add the notch where bowls and shoulders meet stems (see King and Queen weights) without adding too much extra black weight to those parts of the glyph. A work in progress for sure. Any help/thoughts/repulsions/bile appreciated. See also: Chesterfield Queen and Chesterfield Prince

“Chesterfield Queen” by afrojet

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:52:40 -0800

“Chesterfield Prince” by afrojet

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:04:57 -0800

“Sangular” by thalamic

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:29:59 -0800

There are a couple of things I'm trying to do here. 1. I've been trying to create a bottom-heavy font for a while now. This is just one more attempt at that. 2. Trying to ignore my own typographic conventions so that the result is somewhat different, fresh(er) than previous attempts.