Typeface design + specimen
⤾ Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet & the lessons of the Bauhaus ⤤
⚘ Oskar was a master at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929. He presented his ideas of choreographed geometry and began to conceive of the human body as a new artistic medium. He was able to stage the different relations between man & space based on the geometric analysis of forms and movement; Schlemmer saw ballet & pantomime as free from the historical baggage of theatre and opera.
New ideas about design and color emerged, and art appeared as a direct way of influencing everyday life and the prevailing social structures.
[ A reconstruction of the Triadic Ballet by Margarete Hastings in 1970 can be seen on Youtube, made from sketches, photographs and documents ]
⥃ The font has its 27-letter alphabet in Upper and Lower case, and the main feature lies in the alternate characters that have variations in width;
The typeface also has numbers, punctuation signs and miscellaneous characters like ( the manicule ) ☞ , ( the dagger ) † , and arrows ↦
