Muirmcneil a Stencil Type System in Three Geometric Contours Five

MuirMcNeil A stencil type system in three geometric contours Five

MuirMcNeil Five

Five is one of a series of stencil This approach references the Kombinations-Schrift: 1920s type systems published by linear void spaces of stencil MuirMcNeil in 2017. Constructed designs such as Josef Albers’ from basic geometric segments, Kombinations-Schrift, along with Five explores two essential those of compressed rectilinear ABCDEFGabcdefg typographic features. sans serifs from the 1960s such as Compacta, Helvetica Inserat Schmalfette Grotesk: 1954 Relationships between form and and Impact, faces that were counter form are fundamental to themselves modelled on Walter all visual communication Haettenschweiler’s seminal processes. In the context of Schmalfette Grotesk from 1954. typeface design, readers are ABCDEFGHabcdefgh able to distinguish one letter A second strategy has been Compacta: 1963 from another not solely by explored in MuirMcNeil Five. To means of the shapes of the facilitate visual differentiation strokes from which they are between characters with made but the formation of the minimum intervention, the core ABCDEFGHIabcdefgh spaces between them. of the lower case, from baseline to x-height, divides into either Impact: 1965 In MuirMcNeil Five, the two or three horizontal sections. structure of letterforms is Following principles similar to differentiated primarily through those used by Walter Ballmer in exchanges of linear intervals his logo and lettering designs for ABCDEFGabcdefgh between letters and strokes Olivetti in 1971, this allows rather than by means of external stroke proportions to be Olivetti lettering: 1971 profiles alone. Instead of modulated more subtly and constructing glyphs from a more naturally than in many minimal set of strokes in the constructed types. conventional manner, Five is built around a minimal set of MuirMcNeil Five is available in internal spaces throughout. OpenType as a display family in Five 02 These have been reduced to thin three styles each in four bold white hairlines in all but the weights. ExtraFat weight, resulting in optimally dense and imposing ABCDEabcdef alphabets. Five 03

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