Keith Chi-Hang Tam
Keith Chi-hang Tam
Typography
Hong Kong
Arrival made its début in Vancouver on Tuesday this week. A 54' by 52' permanent typographic mural was installed in Science World, Vancouver.
After reading Eric Gill’s startling biography by Fiona MacCathy, I’ve started working on a serif type inspired by Gill’s Perpetua. As beautiful as the digital cuts of Perpetua are set relatively large (notably Adobe and Monotype), I find them a bit too light and too contrasty on coated stocks, printed with offset litho, especially at text sizes. Surely that’s not what Eric Gill had intended? With this new type I’m trying to capture the essence of Gill’s original and reinvigorate it with its letterpress charm for use at text sizes. An initial rough sketch of several letters:
5/02/2003 11:12:00 AM
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