Okay, so here is my entry for Fontstruct’s Sports Challenge. The challenge is to create a new sports-themed typeface. I wanted to create a baseball-inspired design and started to work with a diamond shape.

The result is Infield, a display typeface contained within the shape of a baseball diamond. The diamonds overlap and interlock to create a unique pattern.

The working title of Infield was “Baseball Diamond.” As I was working on it, the “Fabulous Baseball Diamond” popped in my head. If you aren’t familiar with the Fabulous Baseball Diamond, you need to watch the Great Muppet Caper which features Kermit and his friends from the Happiness Hotel trying to stop thieves from stealing the Fabulous Baseball Diamond from the Mallory Gallery. That finale served as the inspiration for the second sample, a poster for the fictional gallery exhibit.

You can download Infield at Fontstruct for free. And of course you can download any of my other Fontstruct creations from the Sketchbook B page.

One of the things I love about Fontstruct is that it gives you the opportunity to experiment with abstract concepts. Micro 205 is an experimental typeface that I was playing around with. I restricted myself to only two block types and a five block cap height.

I’ve got two new releases over at Fontstruct, Woodrow and Foxtrot Sierra. You can download both of them for free from Fontstruct.

Woodrow

Woodrow is a very narrow and bold design. I started off planning to design something along the lines of my recent sci-fi creations. But once I started working with it, Woodrow developed some art deco characteristics. Woodrow has both upper and lower case and a range of special characters. Woodrow has already been selected as a top pick.

Foxtrot Sierra

Foxtrot Sierra is a stylized adaptation of the International Maritime Signal Flags system. I took some creative liberties with some of the flag designs to make it work within Fonstruct. For the system to really work, you need to colorize the flags. A guide can be found at Wikipedia.

My newest Fontstruction is very simple. Scoreboard is based on the University of South Carolina’s block “C” logo. I took the basic concept and extended it to an entire alphabet. (For now, it’s uppercase only.)

Of course, it’s also fun to release this font after South Carolina destroyed in-state rival Clemson on Saturday. I’ve added a few characters to commemorate the victory.

It’s not my first South Carolina/Clemson inspired font. My first Fontstruct release, Big Thursday, was inspired by an old poster for the 1959 game.

Cerealbox started life as a rejected sketch for a project I was working on. The concept is really pretty random. I liked the look, but it wasn’t right for the client. So I took the sketches and built them in Fontstruct.

Cerealbox is actually two fonts: an outline and a fill. They can be used separately or paired together. You can also easily offset them to create a nice out-of-register effect.

It’s a pretty distinctive look, even though I really have no idea when I would use this as a designer. But if you want to check it out, head over to Fontstruct and download Cerealbox Regular and Cerealbox Fill.