Sursly Inc. – Fonts, Photos, & Fine Digital Goods

Hi, a new site/business is gestating and will be here soon. My old one page, horizontal scroller site is available on Github. I also recently created three fonts: Lickety Split, Guilder, and Knewave. Contact me at or call +1 (607) 216-8779.

Sursly Font: Up For Grabs

December 11, 2008

Meet Blackout
The font that my site (not blog, yet) uses is called Blackout. I was tired of filling in all the open spaces of some of my favorite sans fonts. I also hadn’t made a font in quite some time…so I created it from scratch.While it is still a work/experiment-in-progress (as is sursly.com) I’d like to offer it up for usability testing (fun!). I’ve only ever made my pixel fonts public, so this is a new endeavor for me. All you have to do is leave a comment here and introduce yourself. Easy enough, right?

2 Flavors

I also wanted to spend less time reversing out the font, so I have a positive and negative of each character.

The first is called “Midnight“:

Sursly - Midnight Font

The second is called “2AM“:

2am

Enjoy A-Z, 0-9 and an assortment of odds and ends (, . ! etc…). I’ll email you the font to the address you provide in the comment (not public), and I’d love to see what you use it for. Thx.

Sursly - Blackout Font

33 Responses to Sursly Font: Up For Grabs

  1. Matt says:

    Fellow Ithaca developer/designer here. Have a few projects in mind that could benefit from this font’s awesomeness. Would love to test/give some feedback. Send away!

    Thanks!

  2. Ann Onymus says:

    I think your font is sexy and there’s a thing or two I’d like to do with it. Tell me, is the designer as appealing? Cause I could think of a thing or two to do with him too.

  3. Andi says:

    Always up for an interesting new font. Loving the site by the way – I think I clocked a visit from you on my server logs, so I guess you already knew that!

    Take care,

    Andi

  4. Pat says:

    I’d love to get my hands on this font set! I love this style of typeface. Reminds me of the Relient K logo (www.relientk.com)

  5. nor says:

    berry berry nice. thx!

  6. Tyler says:

    Font has been delivered! Thanks for your interest.

  7. b-roc says:

    Love both fonts. Looking forward to the complete branding of site and blog.

  8. Would love copies of the fonts, Tyler.

  9. widianto says:

    hi, would like these fonts for my design. thx for your generosity:)

  10. Gideon says:

    Hi Man. I stumbled upon your website. Interesting visuals. Very original usage of horizontal scrolling. Only for people with high bandwith though ;) I’d love to have a copy of the font’s, see what I can do with ‘em.

    G

  11. arrjaay says:

    Hey, love the font!
    I’d love it even more if I had it in my collection ;)
    Happy New Year!

  12. Seth says:

    Super cool. Thanks for sharing the typeface love, and a happy new year from frozen Wyoming.

  13. Richard says:

    Hey Tyler,
    I got the tip to view your site from Van Eldik Studios in the Netherlands and i must say, your design and enthousiasm is very motivating. I’m a regular visitor.

    I’d love to get both fonts to use on a site i’m working on for my ten year old son.

    Thnx a bunch

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  15. Jo says:

    Hey Dude.

    May you send me this awesome font? I would like to use it for my own clothing trade called “chocolate.pool” and maybe for the headlines on the website.

    A big “LOVEYA” from Kassel, Germany,

    Jo

  16. Jo says:

    Hey Dude.

    May you send me this awesome font? I would like to use it for my own clothing trade called “chocolate.pool” and maybe for the headlines on the website.

    A big “LOVEYA” from Kassel, Germany,

    Jo

  17. jen says:

    Hey! You did it! The teen in my life doodles by filling in all the holes in type… She wanted a font that looks just like the one you made! Would you, could you, please? I’d love to use it on her portfolio site for college… :)

  18. robbie cobb says:

    I’d love to get my hands on that goodness.

  19. I’m thinking that if crack is as alluring and addictive as type, I should probably continue to avoid it. From one typofile to another, thanks. I can’t wait to use them. Props from the O-to-the-K. (That means Oklahoma. But it was way cooler when I said it like that. Plus I used “props.” Bonus.)

  20. steve says:

    Nice looking font. Would love to try it on some work.

  21. jen says:

    Hi, I wrote about a month ago, but didn’t hear from you. Were you jammed with requests? It wouldn’t surprise me!

  22. Zach says:

    man, that is a great looking font!
    i would love to try it on some stuff..

    hope all is well.
    peace.
    z

  23. Jesse says:

    I say sir, this is a fantastic font. I randomly found your site through stumble & wanted to note that your site has truly inspired me to do something different with all my upcoming web work including my own. I will be definitely telling people about your site! -Jesse.

  24. pna says:

    Hi, Wonderful design on your site. Would love to try your font on some projects. Thanks for sharing.

  25. Alexwebmaster says:

    Hello webmaster
    I would like to share with you a link to your site
    write me here preonrelt@mail.ru

  26. Ashley says:

    Wonderful blog, I’d like to play around with your font. :)
    Thanks for sharing!

  27. @mknisely says:

    I have a few in house projects for our nonprofit that I could use both of these fonts for and would like to try to see if I could make it work.

  28. Rob Maas says:

    This font will work for our little nonprofit project. So would love having it!

  29. Scott says:

    Love your blog and site! I would love to play around with this font a little. I do not have a set project to use it on yet, but I am sure it might come in handy some day. Great work!

  30. james f says:

    Hi Tyler,

    Stumbled across your site on a design gallery. It looks great…can’t believe how it’s been ripped off though. Are you still giving the font away??? If so please send on to me! Many thanks

  31. Fritsie says:

    Great site. Wicked blog. Fab font. Probably will be useful someday soon.

    Muchas gracias for sharing (if it’s still available that is). :)

  32. inhichdache says:

    ..] Более подробно можно ознакомиться по этой ссылке ..]

    здесь видел ет gamebulletin.ru

  33. Tyler says:

    Check the update, everybody: http://bit.ly/GCPlR0

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Photos ∞

If I'm not parenting or working, I'm probably taking pictures of people. Some of my non-people photography is available to license on Getty Images while many others are available with a Creative Commons license on Flickr.

Vimeos ∞

I also have a YouTube account you can check out.

Blackout ∞

When I launched the previous version of sursly.com I designed it based on this font that I created.

Lickety Split ∞

My most recent typeface! It originated as crayon on index cards and is beautifully sloppy.

Ostrich Sans ∞

An open source font family that I created and happily share over at The League of Moveable Type.

Guilder ∞

An elegant condensed typeface in several styles (and featured as headings in this current site design).

Dribbble ∞

there are so many people out there making incredible things. I don't contribute as often as I'd like because I'm busy packing lunches for a six year old.

@sursly ∞

A Little Background

I specialize in web, logo and font design (& brand development) in Ithaca, New York. I have freelanced since 2003, when I received a BFA in Film, Photography, and Visual Arts. I spent over one year as a designer for Sharktooth Creative (lots of Flash and print design), then nearly three years with the wonderful AWP, a year and a half as a designer at Ithaca College, and a year with Singlebrook. I take photos of interesting people and places.

I've raised a healthy son. We have fun. I make music. I run races. I take little vacations. I survived a month long trip to India. And I recently began eating meat again for the first time in 6 years.