Beaujon Text, designed with Luke Charsley
Beaujon Display, production help from Léa Bruneau
Available for licensing at Heavyweight Type
“ABC Gravity is a typeface that covers ‘all the widths in this world’ — from super compressed to super wide. Aesthetically, it shares a community garden with Compacta, Information, and Impact, the titling bad boys of the ’60s and ’70s, but drawn softer, more open, and friendlier: the curves stay curvy as far down the width axis as possible, so once you’re past “Condensed,” things get warmer instantly.” - Dinamo
Don’t forget to check out the The Return of Gravity comic, drawn specifically for the release, by Dinamo’s own Melanie Schmidt.
The typeface attempts to embody the spirit of Frida’s work through a veristile system of OpenType features; swashes, contextual alternates, while balancing the austeer wide letterforms. Although the typeface plays a very small role in the overall branding of the museum, it gives so much character to any text it is set with.
Vincent Chan [Matter of Sorts Counter Forms] commisioned me to develop a RoboFont extension where someone could space, kern, and interpolate multiple UFOs within a single window.
Spaceport is written purely in Python and built on top of RoboFont’s core tools and Tal Leming’s Merz — “...a lightweight wrapper around Apple’s CoreAnimation framework...” Spaceport was developed with a smiliar architecture to an IDE, tracking the mouse and key interactions inside a flexible-unstructured grid of characters / glyphs.
Spaceport is open-source and availabe to download
There is no need for a text input field, Spaceport allows for typing
directly into the view with a cursor and key navigation.
When a designspace object is loaded, a user can
preview their space within a lightweight axis view.
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The tool is based around StrokeFlattener, a custom implimentation of both the FlattenPen and SamplingPen functionailties. Supplying the pen with a dictionary of indexes and point counts as `approximateSegmentLength`, it will sample the contour but if you give it an integer it will calculate the distance to subdivide the contour.
Research for Beyond Bézier
Scan of embossed book page.
Based on the work of W.A. Dwiggins and Helmut Salden.
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by Eldar Shengelaia
“The Net”
by Lutz Dammbeck
by Frank Muhly Jr & Peter O'Neill
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