FOREVS?
Is it glyphic? Incised? Classical? Call it what you want.
Forevs!
Forevs began forevs ago. It was June, 2022, and I was sitting in my garage studio in Oakland with a simple prompt: Could I go from a completely blank slate to a totally digitized uppercase in one sitting? My afternoon was clear (as it often is), so I set a timer for 90 minutes, propped up my phone to record, and sketched it out.
ANTI-WORLD
‘California Style’
BERT & el FRIZ
Alphabet is Dumb
[THE OPPOSITE]
jim@wordlist.org
ROUGH-SKETCH
If I’m being honest?
TYPE BUCKET LIST
Put down your notebooks!
→HISTORIC MAT.
the Fitzgerald Cocktail
FORMAT: DIGITAL
Superlight=Fewer Sales
Fractions.
Small Capitals
Non-lining figures.
Alternate Curve sided E.
Alternate wide form of S.
Alternate Straight-Sided M.
Alternate Lombardic T.
Alternate Marlowe-Style R.
Alternate Swirly G.
Alternate High Waisted F.
Alternate Art Nouveau A and E.
Case-sensitive punctuation.
Alternate Art Nouveau U, M, and N.
Alternate Art Nouveau F and H.
Alternate A with long Crossbar.
Alternate Art Nouveau B, P, and R.
Alternate A with top bar.
Alternate A with High Leg.