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      • An interesting lettering design….

        Posted at 3:31 am by gatf, on July 21, 2019
        “KAWO” is a very interesting idea for a font…

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      • An Exercise in Character Invention

        Posted at 3:22 am by gatf, on July 21, 2019

        Meet Uncle Bert, a garden gnome of some year’s experience…

        He was created in Autodesk Sketch on an iPad Pro, using an Apple Pencil.

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      • Interesting type design…

        Posted at 1:05 am by gatf, on July 21, 2019
        There’s something about this I like.

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      • A set of lower case letter forms… a future project, perhaps…

        Posted at 1:35 pm by gatf, on July 14, 2019
        a new idea I’ve been experimenting with

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        Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged cheerful, design, font, fun, heavy, Lower case, plump, rounded, typeface

      • Numbers in Various Forms

        Posted at 12:04 pm by gatf, on April 14, 2019

        Further progress on Draftsman Label Hand…

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      • The Emmet and Heath Robinson Railway Company.

        Posted at 1:57 pm by gatf, on April 4, 2019
        A rather flamboyant sketch, entirely from imagination, but inspired by the art of Messrs Roland Emmett and William Heath Robinson. The odd thing is that nonsense like this from imagination takes a really long time to do – over two weeks of drawing time went in to this.

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      • Floral Art With Impact, or the Magenta Magnolias

        Posted at 8:49 am by gatf, on March 10, 2019

        One of those something completely different pots – or an admission that I’ve been painting rather than type designing.

        PJL

        Magenta Magnolias

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      • Another Idea That is Coming Along “Draftsman Label Hand”

        Posted at 9:29 am by gatf, on March 4, 2019

        This one is a longer term project, with a great deal still to do!

        Capitals
        Some ligatures, maybe more to come
        Lower case
        Small Capitals

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