BORDURA FONT - folk-inspired experimental typeface

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B o r d u r a

digitalised tradition - digitalizirana tradicija

Bordura font is a color font based on traditional Slovene folk embroidery patterns. The original patterns use a grid system (similar as a pixel grid), which allowed us to divide them in several smaller visual units, later transformed in type characters.

By using multiple different combinations of characters the patterns are digitally recreated and re imagined by the user.

Uppercase characters were assigned for ornaments, lowercase characters are decorative stripes, while center pieces are found on the numbers and special characters.

Črkovna vrsta Bordura je barvna črkovna vrsta osnovana na slovenskih tradicionalnih vzorcih vezenin. Izvirni vzorci uporabljajo mrežni sistem (podoben rastru pikslov), ki nama je omogočil vezenine razdeliti na več manjših enot. Te enote sva kasneje preoblikovala v črke razporejene v kodni tabeli.

Vzorci so digitalno poustvarjeni z uporabo različnih kombinacij znakov, ki jih uporabnik poljubno niza.

Velike črke so bile dodeljene ornamntom, majhne črke okrasnim trakom, osrednji elementi vezenin pa so na številkah in posebnih znakih.

TRADITIONAL SLOVENE EMBROIDERY MOTIFS

Since 2016, the OpenType-SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) font format developed by Adobe and Mozilla became the industry standard to support color fonts.
Color fonts represent an evolution in digital typography, introducing rich graphic features into font files. This new standard allows color information to be stored inside a font and change the way people interact with type.

Systems currently supporting OpenType-SVG fonts: Windows 10, macOS Mojave, and iOS 12

Leta 2016 je format Open Type-SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) postal industrijski standard za podporo barvnih pisav razvit s strani Adobe in Mozilla.

Barvne črkovne vrste predstavljajo evolucijo digitalne tipografije z uvajanjem novih lastnosti črkovnim vrstam. Omogoča shranjevanje informacij o barvah znotraj pisave in spreminja način interakcije ljudi s črkovno vrsto.

Sistemi, ki trenutno podpirajo OpenType-SVG pisave: Windows 10, MacOS Mojave in iOS 12

STUDIES FOR "TILING" USING DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS

The project's objective is to build a bridge between traditional folk art and the modern digital tools, as contradictory as it may seem, both share the same basic visual principles: a grid and pixel-like units.

Created during the year 2018, the font is now available to DOWNLOAD FOR FREE, hoping that this work will be taken further by other creatives and bring visibility to the folk/ popular culture and art.

Namen projekta je povezati tradicionalno ljudsko umetnost s sodobnimi digitalnimi orodji in čeprav se zdi kontradiktorno, si delita enak princip mreže in rastra piksla.

Črkovna vrsta je bila ustvarjena v letu 2018 in jo lahko BREZPLAČNO PRENESETE.