Hies – a Handmade Typeface
The process of this typeface was
completely manual. The letters were drawn by hand using a pencil, a ruler and a paper stencil. The type blocks were carved by hand from plywood and they were used for letterpress printing the specimen sheets.
The name of the typeface Hies
refers to two finnish words: hieskoivu
(a downy birch) and hiki (sweat). Downy
birch is the actual material that the
typeface is made of, and the process
required so much precision and time
that my hands did get a bit sweaty from
time to time.
The project was inspired by 19th
century woodtypes.
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TYPE DESIGN2022