Splinter

Splinter is a display typeface designed and developed by Namrata Goyal and Frederik Berlaen in collaboration with Universal Thirst. It explores variable axes in a grid-based, modular design, pushing legibility to the extremes and creating letterforms that can be used beyond text such as patterns, or other graphic elements. The seed of this design lies in a piece of lettering found in a long-forgotten book from Goyal’s aunt’s library – which is filled with 1960s and 70s titles, many of them in Hindi. Over time, and with ongoing exploration of the design possibilities, Splinter found the light of day. At the centre of Splinter’s design space is a pliable, pixel font source. This source stretches into 5 variable axes and 3 ‘inline’ binaries– Splinter Single, Double, Triple. Further, each binary has interpolatable instances to help you navigate the design space. [futurefonts.xyz]