Kayla McEncroe

Quartz is a decorative typeface published by Softmaker.

Amber is a decorative serif font published by SoftMaker.

MyCRFT was designed as a custom heading typeface for Drew Maughan’s IhNohMinecraft project.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Beginning life in 2015 under the name Mascoteers, the project was an ensemble of small-scale characters built from LEGO elements. The challenge was in creating the different figures with the restrictions of existing LEGO elements, while being recognisable as individual characters.

The project was initially well received within the LEGO community and with the general public, but was eventually ignored and even ridiculed in favour of LEGO’s own BrickHeadz theme, launched in late 2016.

It was rebranded IhNohMinecraft as a response to the deliberate cries of “Ih dih Minecraft?” since BrickHeadz' launch. The project has no relation to the popular game.

ABOUT THE TYPEFACE
The motivation to create MyCRFT was as part of establishing IhNohMinecraft as its own project, by giving it a new visual identity.

The typeface could be described as a cross between the ones used for Gears Of War and Overwatch. I liked the boldness of the former, and the italicized straight edges of the latter. MyCRFT was intended to be used in its Black Italic form from the beginning, and was designed around the letters from the word MINECRAFT.

Where I couldn't decide on specific characters, I've included the designs as alternative glyphs. I've also included the old “square” Mascoteers logo and the newer “head” IhNohMinecraft logo.

MyCRFT is paired with Kanit on the official IhNohMinecraft web site. Let me know if you discover a better pairing!

PROJECT LINKS
View the IhNohMinecraft “reveal” playlist on YouTube.
The official Mascoteers/IhNohMinecraft web site.

Code Saver — Next-generation monospaced font —

1. Code Saver is a monospaced font family for coding and tabular layout.
2. Code Saver is a clean, natural and simple monospaced font family.
3. Code Saver consists of 6 style, Regular, Medium, Bold and their 11° Italic.
4. Code Saver has 93.33% condensed width for more usable space.
5. Code Saver has good distinguishability and legibility especially numerals.
6. Code Saver brings a fresh sensitivity to boring old existing monospaced fonts.

Cybermontage is a postmodern display typeface reminiscent of a particularly rad 1980’s/1990’s typographic trend. This anything-but-boring design trend employed campy colors, clean geometric shapes, torn paper edges, faux finishes and kitschy patterns. A common tactic was to scramble glyphs from various typefaces, especially art deco, nineteenth-century grotesques, old metal headliners and minimalist geometric designs. Cybermontage uses OpenType technology to automatically shuffle several variations to create a pseudorandomized effect. If your application doesn’t support OpenType, you can access all these character variations from the Unicode Private Use Area, also known as PUA encoding.

Galix is a technical sans designed to look futuristic without any of the retro appearance often found in this genre. It has a squarish, slightly condensed anatomy, and is characterized by thin joints and deep ink traps that add a sparkle to the otherwise monoline typeface. In the italic styles, these cuts are accentuated even more which creates a feeling of speed in the letterforms.

Galix is optimized for display typography (the ascender height is the same as the cap height, and the spacing is somewhat tight) but the middle weights are very readable at smaller sizes, where I'd recommend adding a little tracking. OpenType features include ft and tt ligatures, stylistic sets/alternates, automatic fractions, tabular, superscript and subscript figures, case sensitive forms.

Perfect for websites, apps, infographics, magazines and logotypes, Galix is technical but with a warmth and personality that is often missing from this genre.