Thursday
Aug 23 , 2012

Pitch & Chartwell

Two very different fonts:

Pitch, channeling the simplicity of typewritten text. Love this detail:

What did interest me about the struck letter is how it becomes bolder. The harder the key is hit, the more ink it impresses into the paper. The ink spreads around the letterform, pooling in some areas—especially where two strokes join. It’s a linear way to make the letter bolder. (In typeface design, weight is usually added more to vertical strokes that horizontal ones.)

And from the future: FF Chartwell, which uses OpenType to transform type into charts. Oh yes.

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