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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.

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:

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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

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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

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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: glorydefender@gmail.com

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