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Frustro: The Impossible Typeface
- Codhisattva 15y agoBeautiful and brilliant!
- unjinxable 15y agoEven the 'I' looks wrong. Well done.
- dchest 15y agoIs it? (Looks again.) Oh, I see what you mean, but is it "impossible"? It looks like a falling tall skyscrapper from the ground point perspective.
- talmand 15y agoTo me, many of them are not what I would call impossible. Looking them over I think I could recreate many of them in a 3D program easily enough. The only ones that fit that name seem to be the ones with a horizontal element connecting two vertical elements. Even then many of those where the horizontal is on the bottom or top, like T, U, V, W, seem to work. I wouldn't call this a collection of "impossible" letters but a nice typeface inspired by an impossible object, just like it says next to the name.
- gwern 15y agoI think you could make an object like that, but you'd need to take a rectangular prism and bend it - the top and bottom of the I look like they are receding from you.
- jordhy 15y agoIt looks very nice, where can we buy/download?
- blendergasket 15y agoI was wondering the exact same thing. I'd love to use it for the name of http://impossiblethoughts.com/ http://impossiblethoughts.com/
- scq 15y agoTo quote from the Behance page comments: > Martzi Hegedűs - About 16 hours ago > - > Thank you all! > I'm finalizing the .otf version. > It is going to be available soon, i hope.
- malkia 15y agoIf dyslexie (the font) helps people with dyslexia, this one does the exact opposite. Cool stuff!
- hartror 15y agoIt ever so subtly hurts my brain.
- forgottenpaswrd 15y agoIt hurts mine really hard. I can't look at it for more than some seconds without feeling really bad.
- jianshen 15y agoThe designer's own personal emblem is an impossible letter. :) http://www.behance.net/martzihegedus http://www.behance.net/martzihegedus
- colonel_panic 15y agoI think that one could be interpreted as merely warped.
- sodiumphosphate 15y agoCorrect. The shaded version makes it very clear; it's merely an H with a twist.
- forgottenpaswrd 15y agoIt is not impossible, you can make this shape in 3d, a vertical prism with an horizontal plane appendix.
- tripzilch 15y agoWow, some of his logo design work is really amazing.
- moondev 15y agoso cool. how can I buy this.
- Garbage 15y agoJust for the information, the project page[1] mentions that this is under "Attribution - No Derivatives"[2] [1]http://www.behance.net/gallery/FRUSTRO-typeface/2525513 http://www.behance.net/gallery/FRUSTRO-typeface/2525513 [2]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
- ars 15y agoAnd for additional information, he does not have the ability to make that restriction (in the US). Typefaces can not be copyrighted. (The actual font file can be, but not the shape of the letters.) This is a slightly edge case since the letters have considerably more art to them than the typical letter, but they are still letters, and he has no legal ability to restrict what people do with how they look. If calligraphy can not be copyrighted (and it can not), then this can't be either. So his license does not have any force of law behind it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protectio... His page mentions that he is from Hungary, and this restriction may have the force of law there, I don't know.
- lambda 15y agoWell, the actual font files themselves are copyrighted, and can be distributed under whatever license he wants. It's just the shapes that are not. So you can't take the font files, add or tweak a letter, and redistribute them. But you can go through, manually trace each letter, add or tweak some, and distribute that. I suspect that most people who would want to create a derivative work would want to reuse the existing files. Manually re-creating a font is quite a bit of work. Finding just the right control points to get the curves perfect is tough. And no, you can't just dump the control points out of the original file; that would be creating a derivative work. Edit to add: And actually, I believe that the copyright notice on that page is for that sample, displaying how the font is constructed. This is something that is copyrightable. The actual font file doesn't seem to have been released.
- jcrites 15y agoWhat does this mean about fonts like Helvetica? Are they typically protected by design patents? If not, could someone take a bitmap screenshot of Helvetica, product a font from it, and distribute that font?
- davedx 15y agoFrustro, sounds like a lot of the fonts on blogs and websites designed by people who only test on Macbooks these days. I wish people focused less on how pretty their custom font was and more on its readability.
- marcusf 15y agoTypeface design is as much art as it is anything else, and this is firmly in the art camp and not concerned primarily with legibility (kinda like an issue of Raygun). I like it, it made me smile.
- awolf 15y agoFirst: it's not a font, it's a typeface. Second: This typeface is a creative expression. Readability is but one of many goals that a new typeface can have.
- c1sc0 15y agoRight on! ... Quote: The man who invented the Macintosh and misnamed what should be the “typefaces” menu the “fonts” menu. He never forgave himself for his incorrect usage of English. ~ Aza Rasking (source: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/my-father-final-gift/ http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/my-father-final-gift/)
- narkee 15y agoI don't understand that distinction. In selecting a typeface, you're also necessarily selecting the font, so why make the distinction? From an artistic and technical point of view I get it, but from a user perspective the two are not separable quantities.
- ars 15y ago> In selecting a typeface, you're also necessarily selecting the font No, the reverse of that. A typeface of the overall look, a font specifies the size and things like bold, italic. So what is commonly called the font is really the typeface, and what is called the size is actually the font. Back when fonts of a specific size were physical thing this mattered a lot - you only had a limited number of fonts for each typeface.
- bleevo 15y agoKill it with fire.
- adnam 15y agoTop comment is prize-worthy: Elijah Madden: I hope there's a fixed-width version so I can use it for coding.
- adnam 15y agoAhhhhh HN; anti-apple comments: down-voted, karma-whoring: upvoted.
- guelo 15y agoI have a feeling that if it was an actual font it would be an unreadable mess below 30pt or so.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoOn an iPad3 a 12pt font would be about 44 pixels high or so.
- tomelders 15y agoum.... I have a very strong feeling that I saw this in a font book back when I was in Art College, in the late 90's. I should clarify, I'm not implying it's a copy, or an unoriginal idea. I'm just saying out loud that I "think" I've seen this before.
- bromagosa 15y agoMy brain hurts now
- verbosus 15y agoA similar idea, but executed in an even more interesting way can be found in the typeface Priori Acute, designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and released by Emigré in 2010. I urge you to check it out: http://www.virusfonts.com/fonts/priori-acute http://www.virusfonts.com/fonts/priori-acute