Astor Font of our time Display font
Story about Astor 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.
Story about Astor font 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:
Story about Astor font I used Erostile font like base for creating my own letters and you can see my idea for creating a special logo typeface:
Part of a logo:
Eurostile typeface:
Story about Astor font 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:
Story about Astor font Yes! I straighten all curves and lines of Eurostile font and stated a few design rules for designing my font:
Astor typeface
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.
Eurostile typeface
Tickness1: 65 pt
Tickness2: 55 pt
Story about Astor font 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:
Story about Astor font It’s very easy to see real epoch of each typeface:
Eurostile font:
Astor font:
Story about Astor font Eurostile Bold:
Story about Astor font Astor Regular:
Story about Astor font Astor Regular:
Story about Astor font 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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Story about Astor font
abcdefg hijklmnop qrstuvwxyz
Modularity of Astor font is very high! Astor font glyphs also can be used for designing of furniture.
Font contains: Basic Latin letters:
Numbers:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 ½ ¼ ¾ ¹ ² ³
Extended Latin A:
ÄÀÁÂÃÅ Æ Œ ÈÉÊË Ï Ñ ÒÓÔÕÖ ÙÚÛÜ ÝŸ äàáâãå æ œ èéêë ï ñ òóôõö ùúûü ýÿ
Extended Latin B:
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
Punctuation:
Symbols: Math Symbols:
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Font designer: Branislav Jakovljev - Lab-Dot foundry Address: Isidore SekuliÄ&#x2021; 51 21203 Veternik (Novi Sad) Serbia E-mail: glorydefender@gmail.com
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