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Cadence, a pattern typeface by Jonathan Perez
This typeface is a revival of an ornamental metal type font, which comes from a French type specimen of the nineteenth century. I do not know who is the author of the original ornamental design. This work is not a strict revival of the original design: the main thing was to retain the strong aesthetic and conceptual bias, while making the system evolving, notably because of the evolution from metal typesetting to digital typesetting. Cadence is remarkable for its process of construction: contrary to a classic ornamental font combining a lot of simple geometric elements, this one combines a few number of highly-complex non-geometric elements.
These patterns are made from a single photo, shot and edited entirely on the iPhone. The photo was cropped and saved in 3 color variations using Camera+, then composed with Diptic.
There’s a bank of multicolored lockers at Stockholm’s Fotografiska (Photography) Museum. I took a half-hearted angle shot of the room and thought nothing more of it until later at the cafe when we were messing around on our phones. I cropped the photo to hide everything but the color of the lockers and rotated it. That crop represents each of the ⅓ columns in these images.
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