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Typography

An unusual typeface design: Equal parts design and programming…

by Chuck Green at ideabook.com

I’m reprising this post about a Print Magazine article from a few years back featuring the work of Shiva Nallaperumal (with some updates).

It include a typeface under development at the time, working title of “Labyrinth”, that ended up as “Calcula”.

As Nallaperumal described it at the time, “The typeface is pseudo artificially intelligent and the design process was equal parts design and programming. For the project I collaborated with and was guided by Tal [Leming], who created the advance opentype features while I designed the system of glyphs. We have been working on it for almost two years now, and [it] will soon be published commercially.”

I point you to it because Nallaperumal has followed up with other faces and other particularly interesting design insight. Have a look…

This was the original prototype…

The original Print Magazine story…

And this is how it ended up—from typotheque.com, a PDF type specimen book (453KB PDF)…

You can play around with it here…

Another Nallaperumal creation: Faction…

His Instagram feed…

His Twitter feed…

And a way out of date website (but with lots of interesting work)…

Finally, from December 2018, a presentation at CreativeMornings…

The original version of this post appeared in March of 2015.

Posted in MARCH 2019 / Chuck Green is the principal of Logic Arts, a design and marketing firm, a contributor to numerous magazines and websites, and the author of books published by Random House, Peachpit Press, and Rockport Publishers.z Copyright 2007-2019 Chuck Green/Logic Arts Corporation. Contact.

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