AstorFont of our time
Display font
It’s already known that each design, each creation can
hold signs and styles of our time we live on Earth.
This font, which I created, is “an answer” for our time,
answer of our era, era of 21st Century.
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I had a one request to design a logo for one project of making few resort places and hotels in region of Vojvodina (Serbia). That logo you can see here, where I created a special typefaces for that logo:
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I used Erostile font like base for creating my own letters and you can see my idea for creatinga special logo typeface:
Part of a logo:
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Eurostile typeface:
Lately I decided to make whole font from this idea with stated few rules in typefaces design. But first, I wanna to show you my concept of my font. To explain you a Base of which I started:
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Yes! I straighten all curves and lines of Eurostile font and stated a few design rules for designing my font:
Capital letters are derived from O letter (hight and width, if possible) and optically balanced to fit in rest of Alphabet but strongly following rules of O and V-A letters, where I was looking glyph designs of Eurostile font and then I was design mine:
Mainly, tickness of capital letters is 65 pt and tickness of lowercases is 55 pt.
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Tickness1: 65 pt Tickness2: 55 pt
Astor typeface
Eurostile typeface
Lowercases are derived from lowercase O letter too and they are 400 pt high in 1000 pt grid.
Lowercase O is actually Capital O resized to 400pt of hight, with line tickness of 55 pt.
Digits are derived from Zero digit, following “width and hight” rule if its possible, except digits 1, 4 and 7:
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It’s very easy to see real epoch of each typeface:
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Eurostile font: Astor font:
Eurostile Bold:
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Astor Regular:
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Astor Regular:
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Modularity of Astor font is very high! Astor font glyphs can be used in many other ways than just for graphic design:
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Modularity of Astor font is very high!Astor font glyphs also can be used for designing of furniture.
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Font contains:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 ½ ¼ ¾ ¹ ² ³
ÄÀÁÂÃÅ Æ Œ ÈÉÊË Ï Ñ ÒÓÔÕÖ ÙÚÛÜ ÝŸ
äàáâãå æ œ èéêë ï ñ òóôõö ùúûü ýÿ
ĂĄ ĆČ ĎĐ ĺłľ ĹŁĽ ĚĘ ŃŇ Ő ŔŘ ŚŠȘ ŤŢ ŰŮ ŻŽ
ăą ćč ďđ ı ĺłľ ěę ńň ő ŕř śšș ťţ űů żž
· @ ! & ¡( ) [ ] { } ? ¿ - – — * _ \ /
‰ % † ‡ • . , ‚ : ; … „ ” “ ‘ ’ ' " # ‹ › « »
´ ¨ ˚ ` ˜ ˙ ˝ ° ˘ ˛ ¸ $ € ¢ £ ¥ ¤ ^ ¦ ™ © ® ¶ §
± + = ÷ − × ~ ⁄ < > | ¬
Basic Latin letters:
Numbers:
Extended Latin A:
Extended Latin B:
Punctuation:
Symbols:
Math Symbols:
Font designer:
Branislav Jakovljev - Lab-Dot foundry
Address:
Isidore Sekulić 51
21203 Veternik (Novi Sad)
Serbia
E-mail: [email protected]
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