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DM Unarmed

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DM Unarmed Font Family was designed by Drew Maughan and published by DM Founts. DM Unarmed contains 1 styles.

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About DM Unarmed Font Family

Unarmed began life as a series of rectangles in Fireworks. The task was designing my own business card for the first time in years, and the perfect lettering couldn't be found in either free or commercial fonts. While there were some good choices, none of them really communicated who I was. Initially only the lowercase letters in my name were created, with each being designed around a 7 x 4 grid of squares. I liked the result so much that I wanted to use the same typeface in different projects - and to save time in future, I decided to create this font. In creating DM Unarmed, the intention was to avoid diagonal lines, and to keep all the lines horizontal, vertical and grid-like. This made creating some of the characters - particularly the rounded ones and the letters X and Z - challenging. Coming from both worlds, I wanted to achieve a blend of technicality and creativeness, without trying to pretend one was the other. For best results this font should be used for large and prominent text, although it works at smaller sizes up to 12pt. I've spent a lot of time trying to hint a few characters that wouldn't play ball, such as 2, 7 and 8. In case you're wondering: DM Unarmed got its name from my philosophy of facing challenges without reliance on tools and weapons.

Designers: Drew Maughan

Publisher: DM Founts

Foundry: DM Founts

Design Owner: DM Founts

MyFonts debut: Sep 17, 2010

DM Unarmed

About DM Founts

DM Founts is Drew Maughan: Maker, Artist and LEGO Enthusiast and an experienced web developer. Based in London UK, he creates typefaces inspired by the experiences he had growing up.(After hearing about it from a college teacher, he chose to use the less common "founts" instead of "fonts" for the foundry name, to better represent his British upbringing.)Check out his LEGO-related YouTube channel for a peek into what he does when he's not playing with typefaces.

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