TYPE DESIGN

Odin Lowsley – Voyant

by Odin Lowsley

Form born from function, Voyant questions the current modalities of type drawn for various size contexts. Built on a foundation of character identification research, and polished through personal experimentation, its structure is redrawn from scratch for three separate size ranges, each with consideration of their respective contexts. The radically exaggerated shapes — required for recognition in the smallest applications — create a new source from which the design of larger cuts is informed. It produces unexpected moments that strike a balance between brutal simplification and the calligraphic traces of the human hand.