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SET: Shappeg - Display type

OUTPUT: Computer font

WORK: Experimental typography

DATE: 2010



SET OF SHAPES

'Shappeg' is a typeface I developed for one of my classes at HfK Bremen. The class, offered by Prof. Alexander Sahoo and Prof. Dr. Frieder Nake, was called 'Form als Prozess und Methode' (form/shape as process and method).


We started off experimenting with shapes and thinking up little games or sets of rules to create shapes. As the class progressed, we were asked to develop our exercises further and work towards the creation of one or more families of shapes. This could be anything - a wallpaper pattern, a 3D object or product, something beautiful to look at, etc.


I decided to see if I could create as many letters as possible from a given set of shapes. After experimenting with different shapes to see what kinds of parts I'd need to build all the capital letters of the Roman alphabet (the standard 26), this is the set I ended up working with (pictured left).




G - E - F - C


P - B - R


N - H - L - K









I tried to achieve a maximum of coherence by using the same basic elements for as many letters as possible.


In the end, I managed to create a complete set of capital letters.


Next up, you can see some pangrams I set to test the font. A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.




ENGLISH PANGRAM


CATALAN PANGRAM: THAT IDIOT JAN BOUGHT FIG WHISKY


PORTUGUESE PANGRAM (ALMOST): A CURIOUS LITTLE TORTOISE SAW TEN HAPPY STORKS


BALANCE: ILLUSTRATION MADE FROM THE SAME SET OF SHAPES


Drawings


Drawings


Drawings


SHAPPEG.TTF