Łucja

Łucja Oźmin was a distinguished Polish visual artist active from the 1940s to the end of the 1990s. She and her husband Józef worked as a team to create dozens of monumental frescoes for churches and public buildings throughout Poland and abroad, though each had a thriving solo career as well. Her granddaughter Kasia Oźmin commissioned us to design Łucja as an exclusive typeface for her Dublin-based design studio, together we create, based on a poster for a 1974 show of Łucja’s graphic work, which displayed the artis’s name in a blocky, slightly rounded sans we’d never seen. We extrapolated the full typeface from those ten letters. (The eagle-eyed Florian Hardwig later identified the mystery face as the Idźkowski Foundry’s Blok Ciężki, but by that time, Łucja was already Łucja.) A sharp-cornered version provides a subtle variation in tone. [signalfoundry.com]