Rüdiger Schlömer pushes the bounds of what’s doable within the kind world with Knit Grotesk: a typeface meant for knitting. This pixelated font works each onscreen and on cloth, and it’s supreme for vibrant colour combos and attention-grabbing textures. Plus, Knit Grotesk is predicated on the easy construction of Futura, including a excessive legibility to this versatile typeface.
It’s not usually we discover typefaces that work within the tangible world, so the chances are magnificent. I’m imagining this on a yellow sweater with a neon pink secondary hue, spelling out one thing as fantastically surprising as “bumfuzzle.”
BOUT KNIT GROTESK
KNIT GROTESK is a typeface by Rüdiger Schlömer particularly made for hand knitting. It’s the end result of his investigations in typographic knitting, on which he printed the guide, „Pixel, Patch und Sample. Typeknitting“ and is giving workshops at venues like Swiss Yarn Competition, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and Letterform Archive.
CONSTRUCTION
KNIT GROTESK first letters had been impressed by a low-res adaptation of Futura (FuturX by Laucke Siebein), whereas translating it right into a hand knitting sample. By this formatting course of originated an entire set of typographic particulars which developed right into a typeface of its personal. Probably the most attribute factor – the vertical line grid – derives from the alternating two tone double rows used slipstitch knitting.
TYPEFACE
With with the help of Anton Studer, KNIT GROTESK has change into a full-scale typeface, together with all normal accents, various letters and ligatures. Its six cuts are the the results of three weigths together with a vertical line grid (Line) and a clean background (Dot).
USAGE
KNIT GROTESK has a hybrid character of being each a graphic device for knitting and a typeface. The typeface’s six cuts present a versatile setup for frolicsome colour combos, optical results and moiré overlays. Its textile character gives an ideal potential to create typographic patterns and textures. Past wool, pixels and paper, it may well thus be used for some other grid- or pixel-based crafts and methods, reminiscent of mosaic, laser-cut or architectural constructing supplies.
