Mathematically Designed, Digitally Native
Introducing Kut, a monoline, geometric display face with a distinctly sci-fi, technical feel.
Available in both standard and heavy weights with solid or open inlays.
Built from straight lines, evenly radial curves, and diagonal facets rather than full curves. Where a round form would normally be (C, G, O, S, a, e), the corners are cut or chamfered, giving a faceted, almost vector-polygon look.
The lowercase follows these rules: the a, d, g, p, q have squared-off bowls with clipped corners, and the y has a flat, open, “u-with-a-tail” shape.
Available soon as an open type font.
An adaptation of Albrecht Dürer’s modular blackletter from 1525
This is a project I am currently working on.
I started by creating a digital version of Albrecht Dürer’s modular blackletter alphabet, following his directions from his 1525 treatise. Then, I adapted these letters into a modular system consisting of six, 2.5x3 inch blocks for each letter. I cut these modules on my CNC on end grain rock maple, and i am currently printing all 26 letters on my Vandercook No. 3.
These prints will then be overlaid with drawings from the same book, reproduced in pencil by my drawing machine.
Edition of 10 (I hope)
clockwise from top left:
- wood type print with digital overlay of what will be pencil drawing (by machine);
- Vector of letter ‘z’
- MWT of the letter u, on the bed of my Vandercook No. 3
- Vector of letter ‘a’
Visual. Form. Play.
Created directly on the bed of a Vandercook letterpress, these wood type compositions are meant to be enjoyed simply as playful visual form.
Monoprints
Super Lenta is a new, chromatic, modular wood type font for letterpress printing.
Inspired by Joan Trochut’s Super Tipo Veloz (Super Fast Type, produced in 1942 by Fundición Tipográfica Iranzo in Barcelona, Spain), Super Lenta (trans: Super Slow) type was designed in Illustrator®, cut into 2.75 × 2.75 × 0.9175-inch end-grain, rock maple blocks on a CNC router, letterpress printed in fluorescent orange and blue inks, hand-bound as a book, and released in 2017. Each letter consists of four modules for each color. Letterforms are 5.5x5.5 inches.
Book Produced in an Edition of 5
Splits is a modular wood type font.
It is inspired by pieces of wood type Tricia and I discovered at Hamilton Wood Type Museum and Printing Museum, where each letter was so large is needed to be split across two pieces of wood. Each letter consists of four modules for each of the two colors.
Letterpress Monoprints
in collaboration with Tricia Treacy