Klabauter

Klabauter is a versatile combination of reliable text weights with fresh shapes and playful secondary styles. A quirky display with a twisted stroke completes this family which supports Latin and Greek. This was my MA Typeface Design Project in Reading, UK.
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Klabauter Louisa Fröhlich
Integral to the design concept is a broken stroke. I wanted to see how far I could go with this idea whilst still producing comfortably readable text faces.

In the high-contrast display style the twisted stroke is at the extreme and makes the letters dance on the page. During the MA my aim was to experiment a lot with different shapes and styles in Latin and Greek in order to really learn the right proportions.

At one point the italics became a very distinct family branch and I developed this further. In 2017 the italic styles and the display style have been released as Lisbeth at the type foundry TypeTogether.
Klabauter Louisa Fröhlich
Klabauter Louisa Fröhlich
Klabauter Louisa Fröhlich
Klabauter Louisa Fröhlich
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