Why choose this? I am of an age when my educational theses, my mailed letters and later the scripts and running schedules I worked to professionally, were all typed either by manual or electronic mechanical typewriters. I wanted to create a font using American typewriter bold as a foundation.
Emphasis on these empty spaces would produce latent characters hidden in clear sight, a notion close to any illusionist’s heart. The importance of ‘negative space’ -the shapes of the gaps or voids created between two or more corporeal elements, is one of the fundamental principles of abstract art and design. My idea was to create my own variation based on the shapes of the negative spaces to create characters by inference. A set of rules and templates to transfer shapes on to A4 sheets would be of little use to me. Besides, I wanted flexibility of scale so that I could apply a system to my larger scale paintings. I trawled the internet, contemplating a purchase, but incomplete boxes from USA cost upward of £60 as they are now considered collectable.
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