Cake4Freaks

Inspired by Gerrit Noordzij’s seminal sketching technique, Cake4Freaks explores zigzags as sources of legibility and obfuscation. At large sizes, the zigzags carve the page into abstraction—darting, curving, crossing in a labyrinth of letterforms organic and bizarre. At small sizes, however, they solidify into the silvery shapes of a textface modeled on the broad nib pen, just as Noordzij intended. Cake4Freaks is a traditionally crafted typeface, drawn from scratch with outlines and overlaps, not an encoded effect applied to a preexisting design. This labor of love is the secret ingredient that keeps Cake4Freaks unrehearsed and optically adjusted. [future-fonts.com]