Some of my early experimenting with type consisted of playing with forms – taking typefaces apart and putting them back together again - amalgamation’ fonts as I called them. In the early 90’s I would disassemble Times, Garamond and Bodoni and a few sans serifs (I didn’t have access to much more) and reassemble them. I know full well the limitations of this, but it served to teach me a bit more about the process of constructing my own type and letterforms in general. Despite it all, a few characters continue to appeal to me. It certainly doesn’t work as a cohesive typeface, and it’s not necessarily meant to, but it can work sometimes for certain applications. If the letters work together for a specific word, I’ve used it for logos, headlines in magazines, etc.
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Some of my early experimenting with type consisted of playing with forms – taking typefaces apart and putting them back together again - amalgamation’ fonts as I called them. In the early 90’s I would disassemble Times, Garamond and Bodoni and a few sans serifs (I didn’t have access to much more) and reassemble them. I know full well the limitations of this, but it served to teach me a bit more about the process of constructing my own type and letterforms in general. Despite it all, a few characters continue to appeal to me. It certainly doesn’t work as a cohesive typeface, and it’s not necessarily meant to, but it can work sometimes for certain applications. If the letters work together for a specific word, I’ve used it for logos, headlines in magazines, etc.