much of the work on my publishing imprint, kima, is about background and experiences in the context of my practice. there’s some personal connection in a lot of that work to regional craft cultures and the visual languages of eastern european typography, the bauhaus, slovak vernacular design, constructivism, cubo-futurism, and other proto-industrial traditions from around the world that resonate with me.¹

started in february 2021, k.73r is a geometric sans type family in 5 styles. named after the köchel number of mozart’s four puzzle canons, the typeface continues early modernist exercises in modular typography, and is constructed of square, circle, triangle in counterpoint.² unlike those types, and as a working font file created a full century later, k.73r’s ultra-expansive type table is made up of over 10,500 glyphs, with up to 100 alternates per character. despite the rigidity of its individual parts and the mathematical basis of their assembly, it’s still an homage to analogue media and the warmth of workshop making. its highly legible base style should interact with its stylistic counterparts to affirm the poetic and practical potential of all intelligently designed language.

k.73r is both functional and experimental, and can be set as body or display type. included in the font are upper and lowercase letters, lining and oldstyle figures, basic punctuation, math symbols, currency, diacritics, and ligatures. if there were an ideal typesetter for it, they would tightrope what it can do in terms of legible writing with its potential to work as graphic art.

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