2023-03-13

All-new site! All-new art! Many new fonts and much new music! Thank you for visiting, and please don’t be afraid to get in touch if something seems broken, missing, or otherwise notable.

Art

Fire

This piece is a meditation on the alchemical concept of fire. It makes a great 4K wallpaper!

This is abstract art showing a purple background with thickly outlined equilateral triangles arranged point-up as a Sierpinski gasket. The triangles appear in a range of saturated warm colors, and some of the smallest ones are filled with pale blue. Behind the triangles are corresponding circles in thin dashed outlines. In the center is a single triangle in an extra-thick pale blue outline, reminiscent of the alchemical symbol for fire.

Phoenix Comics & Games

These banners are one example of my visual branding work for the Seattle-based shop Phoenix Comics & Games.

Call it Cogstown

This is the front page of a fictional tabloid-format newspaper created as part of the tabletop roleplay campaign Destiny’s Calling.

In side view, a tall cluster of towers and bridges sits atop a rocky coast, all drawn in rough lines and irregular angles. Below is a cut-away view of a network of neat, brightly-lit caves and tunnels with more modern-looking buildings, all drawn in very clean and regular lines. The entire piece is colored in shades of grey and teal. Surrounding the illustration are the expected textual elements of such a newspaper, featuring “Call it Cogstown” as the headline.

As Above, So Below

This is a small sampling of cards from the As Above, So Below cartomancy deck.

On a wooden surface, five tarot-sized cards are arranged a little unevenly, slightly overlapping. Each shows a combined alchemical sigil in the center. Above and below four of the symbols, the alchemical processes represented are written in white type; all of this appears to glows slightly. All cards show a dark, starry background, and each is tinted to reflect the element involved.

Albums

On the Game Grid OGG MP3

This album from 2004 is a collection of music that appeared in videogames or is videogame-related.

Frozen Hex OGG MP3

The “middle child” of the three earliest albums. These albums were released on CD-R discs. Many of these discs didn’t burn properly, rendering some of the tracks unplayable. Oops!

Cover artwork for the album Frozen Hex. It is a pale blue background with the name of the artist and album at the top left in blobby, dark blue type. The bottom right has a line art illustration of an anthropomorphic kangaroo posed dramatically with hands in motion, manipulating some fort of energy into a roughly hexagonal shape.

Beyond It All: version one point zero beta three OGG MP3

My first album from 1997, this enjoyed three distinct releases, each with minor adjustments to the music within.

Vector fonts

E-Keet Winterlate A26

“A26” stands for “Alphabet 26”, my favorite unicase variant. It works best at multiples of 10 points.

E-Keet Winterlate BC

“BC” stands for “bicameral”, having a distinct lowercase. It also works best at multiples of 10 points.

E-Keet Pixelwood

Not enough serifed raster-style fonts exist in the world. This one works best at multiples of 16 points.

E-Keet Paragon Black

This was created as a replacement for the titling font in the MMORPG City of Heroes.

E-Keet Beans

This started life as a monospaced raster font for Impulse Tracker.

E-Keet Altaica

This font was also designed for Impulse Tracker.

Raster fonts

EK-ALTAI

This narrow, stencil-like font has a more developed vector font shown above.

EK-ANGLE

Oblique letters go a long way toward breaking up a monospace grid.

EK-BEANS

This short, highly rounded font also has a more developed TrueType font above!

EK-BINGO

Exaggerated thickness makes for a fun diversion from the everyday grind.

EK-LOSS

This is an experiment to see how much can be removed from a letterform while leaving it distinct enough to be read.

EK-PIPED

Joints and pipes are partially the inspiration for this somewhat abstract font.

EK-PIPER

The above font is strengthened and made more readable with a thicker stroke.

EK-RACER

Inspiration struck from watching a friend play an old game with a similar font on the Atari 800.

EK-RIVET

Mechanical, serifed, modern, and somewhat steampunk – this is a personal favorite.

EK-SKOOL

Skoolhaus has a certain basic, geometric, childlike appeal.

EK-SLIDE

Instead of smaller, why not make the lowercase… lighter?

EK-SPACE

My very first Impulse Tracker font. Not exciting, but also not very distracting.

EK-SPELL

Making music… with a Speak&Spell? (Note: The track “Spell Machine” came first.)

EK-TEK

Space made angular, this is tied with Rivet for my frequency of use.

EK-TEMP

This broken serifed font, a mutation of Rivet, never got a better name.

EK-WINTR

Winterfresh is stark, square, and just chilly enough to be crisp. It provided some of the inspiration for the font “E-Keet Paragon Black” listed above.