Type specimen

2022

Paperweight

/Personal project

A one-page type specimen for a display face I drew over the winter.

Service

Service

Typography, Motion

Typography, Motion

Timeline

Timeline

1 week

1 week

Tools

Tools

Figma

Framer

a close up of an old fashioned phone

/OVERVIEW

Challenge

I had drawn a heavy display face over the winter and needed a way to show it to people without sending a font file.

Approach

Paperweight is one long page: a big pangram, the full character set, a few words set at poster size and a slider that scrubs through the weights. It was built in Framer in a week.

Outcome

It started more client conversations than any case study that year. The face is still unreleased and still a work in progress. Building it taught me how much a single page can do when it is about one thing. The slider, the poster words and the character grid are now patterns I reuse when a client launches a product with a strong visual idea of its own.

Sheets of thin, translucent paper stacked together
a person is using a pair of scissors to cut a piece of paper

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