FontStructions from Christian Munk (CMunk) (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“Dropcap” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:49:44 +0000

A decorative insular display font.

This is still a work in progress. I'm pushing the new bricks, stacking and nudging to the limit to create some nice flowing shapes. This is also a great opportunity to get working with some good kerning. Once I have the basic character set, this is going to be submitted to Google Fonts for approval.

“Map dingbats” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:00:25 +0000

I was looking for a dingbat font for map making, but I couldn't find one that matched my criteria, so I made this. Please tell me what symbols you want.

A - House

B - Farm house

C - Village

D - Town

E - City

F - Church

G - Fortress

H - Castle

I - Igloo

“Oneliner” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:50:04 +0000

A digital monospaced font based on two simple rules:

Each letter can be written with one continuous stroke (hence the title)

Each letter must contain one diagonal segment, but no more than one.

“Fun with Cubes” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Fri, 13 May 2016 09:43:25 +0000

Inspired by Frodo7's Voxelstorm. Some of these shapes look impossible, but they are actually possible, if you imagine that the corner of each cube is touching the centre of the face of another cube.

“Fauxreign” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Mon, 09 May 2016 14:21:46 +0000

I took inspiration from Kurrentschrift (Spitzschrift) and the Thai alphabet to create something that looks South East Asian, but is actually just latin script in disguise.

I'm not sure I'm quite happy with the k. It seems a bit too twirly. The x i stole from Kurrentschrift, but I'm not sure it is legible in this setting.

“Ziplock” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:59:52 +0000

A back-to-basics, Bauhaus-ey, geometric sans serif. Some of the shapes (G and S) are a bit unconventional due to the small grid, but I think they are fairly legible.

“Vexillum” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:39:43 +0000

I have made a font with International Maritime Signal Flags before, but this time they are coloured correctly (in grey scale). White is blank ( ), yellow is little dots (::), red is 33% diagonals (\\), blue is 50% diagonals (//), black is filled. Lower case letters are the patterns with no colouring, for those who want to colour in the fields themselves.

I have now added numbers. The regular numerals (0-9) are the square NATO flags, and the subscript numerals (₀₋₉) are the templates of the NATO number flags. The roman numerals (I-X, X representing 0) are the longer ICS flags, and the lower case roman numerals (i-x) are the uncoloured ICS flags.

On top of that there are four substitute flags, which can be found in the superscript numbers (¹⁻⁴) and the fifth fractions (⅕-⅘).

“Hearty” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:47:49 +0000

A pixel script font with a heart worked into each capital letter. So far it also only consists of capital letters, but I will make a minuscule set at some point. Ideal for embroidery.

“Hairline Fraktur” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:19:12 +0000

A no-contrast light fraktur typeface. Still a work in progress.

“Sprogreolen Serif” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:43:37 +0000

A work in progress. Quite simply a pixel modern roman typeface. The yogh (ȝ) I have designed as a mix between x and g. I thought of it as a latin letter gamma (ɣ) to distinguish it from the greek letter gamma (γ), but maybe it would do better as an insular g (ᵹ). What do you think?

I have gone with a classic seriffed look for the greek letters. I have looked a lot at Times New Roman to see the stress of the different characters. Do my solutions work?

Oh, and about the name: "Sprogreolen" is Danish for 'The Language Shelves', the pun being that "Bogreolen" would be 'The Bookcase' or 'The Book Shelves'.

“Shadows solid” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:35:08 +0000

Not exactly legible on its own, but you can use it with Shadows to make layered designs.

“Hexagonia” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 11:51:40 +0000

This font almost made itself, when I found out that you could make an almost regular hexagon with vertical segments 9 bricks long and angled segments at 4*sqrt(5) = 8.94

“Kapow” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:34:26 +0000

I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands, which resulted in this font. The initial idea was to make a font inspired by the (handwritten?) signs in retail stores, but it quickly took a turn for the more comic.

“Eerie” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Wed, 13 May 2015 22:26:53 +0000

This is a collection of letterforms chosen for their looks and not historical correctness, making a (hopefully) wonderful anachronism. I am still a bit undescided about some forms, such as the c and t (are they too plain?) and the x (is it too foreign?). Please pitch in with ideas.

The name "Eerie" I have chosen, because it is one of my favourite words of the English language. It consists of only common letters, but their combination is strange: So many vowels for one consonant, initial double e, final ie. A more "English" way to spell it would be "eary", but that, of course, would have another meaning. Even the sound of it is like a creaking door, making it very self descriptive.

“Monsters Inc. Buttons” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:41:10 +0000

I was re-watching Monsters Inc., and I just had to replicate the keyboard on the controlpanel for the door machine. I just love the shape of E (Eject) and how it links with L (L-arrow), and the unintuitive-ness of D (Down Arrow) and U (Up-Right arrow). The silly acronyms and symbols only help. Don't think it's at all useful, but it was a nice exercise :)

“Typecrimes” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:14:05 +0000

A collection of some typecrimes involving flipped letters. Not all uppercase letters are "criminal", the lower case is "right way up". The N is one of my pet peeves, because I've seen several buildings with upsidedown N's on them. The D, E and Z are almost too subtle to be noticed, but in some fonts it's more obvious than in others. The A, V and K have opposite stress. The Eng I included, because it has been typeset as an upside down capital G, when the typesetters didn't have the letter in their fonts.

“Bolt” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:25:57 +0000

I stacked some propeller bricks and some composites of the kite bricks, which allowed me to make a nice lightning bolt inside each letter's bowl.

“Word games” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:00:19 +0000

This font is made for word games like scrabble, wheel of fortune, word search, crosswords. I have included a lot of digraphs and trigraphs that may be considered a single tile in some languages (according to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions). Numbers 0-9 can be used to assign scrabble scores to the previous letter (since they are different for each language). 0 stands for 10 points.

“Shadows” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:43:25 +0000

An experiment in minimalism inspired by Frodo7's Gimli family.

“Yuuroppuna pixel” by Christian Munk (CMunk)

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:15:11 +0000

A Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana) typeface that mimics roman lower case shapes.