"Matches" Challenge

[Dave Crosby]

I thought about creating a new "Matchstick" font, took a look at what was already out there, and was not impressed.

I started my own, but at 83 my hands are too shaky. Here are my beginnings, the challenge is to finish the font.

[Dave Crosby]

I designed a few more.

[Erwin Denissen]

It looks great

Curious about the full character set.

[Dave Crosby]

I like it and hope someone finishes it.

[PJMiller]

I've never seen curved matches ! They might be a little awkward to use

[Dave Crosby]

I've never seen curved matches ! They might be a little awkward to use

Steam wood and you can bend it any way you want.

[Dave Crosby]

I thought about "breaking" the matchsticks to make curves, but decided that would add too many points, but perhaps the numbers could be like this:

[Dave Crosby]

I think the upper case should have heads up, lowercase heads down - something like this:

[Lancer21]

Some curved letters could be illustrated with curled up burnt matchsticks, don't you think? They sometimes curl up in a spiral or in a circle when they burn for all of their length.

[ClintGoss]

I'm thinking this would make a great exercise for a college class.

My wife, Vera, teaches a course at FIT - a State University of New York school with a heavy focus on design. They do have courses that involve font design ... I'm just looking at the course catalog, for example at http://www.fitnyc.edu/graphic-design/index.php ...

Maybe she could pass it on to the appropriate department or teacher ...

Is there a starting point (FCP project)? or just the graphic images ...

[Dave Crosby]

I'm thinking this would make a great exercise for a college class.

My wife, Vera, teaches a course at FIT - a State University of New York school with a heavy focus on design. They do have courses that involve font design ... I'm just looking at the course catalog, for example at http://www.fitnyc.edu/graphic-design/index.php ...

Maybe she could pass it on to the appropriate department or teacher ...

Is there a starting point (FCP project)? or just the graphic images ...

I hope there has been some follow up on this. I think it is a great opportunity.

- Dave

[ClintGoss]

I hope there has been some follow up on this. I think it is a great opportunity.

- Dave

COVID. Sad ... she went on-line (actually, we did the course together, on-line) and doing a hands-on font project was not in the cards ...
Now the school is less than half the size and shrinking ...