BLOCKY
Typeface Design | Experimental Typography | Modular Typography | Poster Design | Rules-Based Design
What it is:
This modular typeface was designed using no more than five basic shapes (okay, some at different scales—but still). The goal: to create an entire alphabet using a limited visual vocabulary. The result is a chunky, geometric, unapologetically rigid type system that’s surprisingly expressive within tight constraints.
What’s inside:
Typeface
A full set of modular letterforms built from five distinct shapes.
Specimen Posters
A series of prints that put the new typeface to work in a way that’s loud, blocky, and full of attitude.
Analog Construction
Every letterform built piece-by-piece, using printed, cut-out shapes to explore compositions by hand.
The posters:
Design Approach:
This typeface started on grid paper, where I sketched out a handful of basic shapes and challenged myself to build an entire alphabet using just five of them. Once I had a set I liked, I digitized the forms, printed them, cut them out, and got to work physically arranging the pieces like a puzzle to figure out how each letter could take shape. It was part logic problem, part arts-and-crafts hour.
The process:
