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Feijoa

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Created: 01/31/08

Last Edited: 12/14/08

Appreciations: 160

Comments: 20

Project Info

Owners

Kris Sowersby

Tags

Typeface Design, Feijoa, Font, KLIM

Attribution Non-commercial
No Derivatives

Project featured on 2/7/08

Fields: Typography, Graphic Design

From: Kris Sowersby's Portfolio

Feijoa is my first serious book typeface, representing four summer’s worth of bloody hard work. I wanted a feeling of softness in a typeface, to design a type that didn’t have all the sharp points and edges that can make digital type so stale and inhuman. The saying “a straight line is a dead line” was very inspirational, I initially took that rather seriously. However, it became apparent that this need not be taken literally, as many of the baseline curves became irrelevant at smaller sizes. There really isn’t much more for me to say. All I wanted to do was make a decent, useable text typeface that could handle most uses in book settings. I never really read these blurbs anyway--most typophiles just look at the letterforms and make up their mind!