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Dots on a Grid

Stephen Coles
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Last edited May 18, 2014

Typefaces with letterforms made from circular dots on a matrix/grid. For dotted fonts that are not mapped to a grid, see Dotted.

See also Squares on a Grid, Electronic Displays.

winter
illustrative
Dried ball bursts into rage

FF Beadmap began life as a bit of fun with plastic Hama Beads from Denmark. Ian Wright’s children received a set for Christmas, and so he started making little heads with them, as well as type pictures based on embroidered samplers. Wright sent David Crow one of these for a wedding present. Crow liked the idea of making this into a workable font, and so he digitized it.

mystic
wunderkinder
Dogs have owners, cats have staff

FF Pop is Neville Brody at his most minimalist. Built on a basic grid of horizontal and vertical lines, FF Pop comes in a monoline and a dotted LED version.

jungle
illustrative
Misery loves bacon and cheese

“Typography is what brought me to graphic design,” says FF Karo designer Martin L’Allier. “I played with typefaces before exploring the world of images.” In an introductory type design course offered during his second year of college, he designed the first version of FF Karo (then called Wisigoth and Ostrogoth). A quote from Matthew Carter was the inspiration for L’Allier’s project: “Black... Read More

safety
conceptional
Get hold of arm rest to fall the wound

First used in the books on (and by) the German techno scene, and techno design specifically, FF Localizer is at the same time a nostalgic 70s and a 90s typeface. Along the lines of “we thought this would be the future, then it wasn’t, but it didn’t matter after all, so here it is”. The additional FF Bionic and FF Chemo families (originally released as FF Localizer Clones) are Critzla's personal... Read More

winter
abstractions
Every encounter keep treasure

FF Nelio is a response to the original mobile phone culture. Bitmaps and pixels served messages in new high tech ways. But technology is to make people’s life cozy, so let’s have a cozy bitmap script font with a nostalgic touch of towel monograms.

GarageFont Design
GarageFonts
David Crow and Ian Wright
FontFont 2002
Andre Kniepkamp
Elsner+Flake 1999
Neville Brody
FontFont 1992
Adam Hayes and Nick Hayes
Identikal
Martin L'Allier
FontFont 2005
Critzla
FontFont 1996
Sami Kortemäki
FontFont 2001