Type specimen for Spore
Editorial Design
Editorial Design
Here’s Spore!
Spore is a contemporary serif face that functions as both a display face at larger sizes and a book face with a whimsical undertone at smaller sizes. It is currently designed in the Latin, Arabic, and Tamil script—which were
3 out of the 4 main scripts used in Singapore, before Malay was Romanized and written in the Latin script.
Spore was born from a deconstructed approach to book typography that references the Oulipo and Postmodern movements. Seemingly paradoxical at times, certain letterforms look synthetic and unusual at larger sizes, with features that are seemingly appear randomly or are completely disconnected with the pen or the stroke. However, at the same time, the tapering and wavering strokes, hark back to expressive and human calligraphic forms by masters such as Oldřich Menhart.
Spore is a contemporary serif face that functions as both a display face at larger sizes and a book face with a whimsical undertone at smaller sizes. It is currently designed in the Latin, Arabic, and Tamil script—which were
3 out of the 4 main scripts used in Singapore, before Malay was Romanized and written in the Latin script.
Spore was born from a deconstructed approach to book typography that references the Oulipo and Postmodern movements. Seemingly paradoxical at times, certain letterforms look synthetic and unusual at larger sizes, with features that are seemingly appear randomly or are completely disconnected with the pen or the stroke. However, at the same time, the tapering and wavering strokes, hark back to expressive and human calligraphic forms by masters such as Oldřich Menhart.
