idealist sans
idealist sans is a typeface that brings together objects that might once have had a purpose into something beautiful: a structure that creates a shadow resembling a letterform, hence giving a purpose back to the objects considered to be ‘rubbish’.
certain idealisms often do not exist as we wish them to, but in idealist sans, i have unconventionally made my idealism of ‘giving insignificant objects a purpose’ come true through the medium of a typeface.
i have created three weightings for this typeface: the objects themselves in their 'rubbish' form, objects as sculpted letters in their 'ideal' form and the shadows the objects cast in their 'most ideal' form.
idealism
— n
2. the tendency to represent things in their ideal forms, rather than as they are
i have created a vectorised version of the shadows created to form a typeface in the purest form: ‘an idealism can become true through the most unconventional of methods’. a traditional method of creating a standard, black, vector typeface would be through creating and drawing curves on a computer, but i have used the unconventional method of vectorising a shape produced from objects without a purpose.
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