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Josef K Patterns

Josef K Patterns is a dingbat font family. This typeface has three styles and was published by Juliasys.

Franz Kafka’s manuscripts have always been a source of inspiration for designer Julia Sysmäläinen.
At first she was just interested in literary aspects but later she noticed that content and visual form can not be separated in the work of this ingenious writer.
Analyzing Kafka’s handwriting at the Berlin National Library, Julia was inspired to design the typeface FF Mister – by now a well known classic.
Over the years, FF Mister K became a handsome typeface family and even produced offspring: the Josef K Patterns.
Some of Kafka’s most expressive letterforms were the starting point for these decorative ornaments.
How do the Patterns work?
Outlines and fillings correspond to the uppercase and the lowercase letters on your keyboard.
You can use them separately or layer them on top of each other.
If you write a line of “pattern-text” in lowercase and repeat it underneath in uppercase you get a row of fillings followed by a row of outlines.
Now you can color them and then set line space = 0 to get a single line of layered colored ornaments.
Alternatively, activating OpenType / stylistic set / stylistic alternates will also unite the two lines to a single layered line.
Further magic can be done with OpenType / contextual alternates turned on.
Displaying the beauty and characteristics of the Josef K Patterns font family.

Franz Kafka’s manuscripts have always been a source of inspiration for designer Julia Sysmäläinen. At first she was just interested in literary aspects but later she noticed that content and visual form can not be separated in the work of this ingenious writer. Analyzing Kafka’s handwriting at the Berlin National Library, Julia was inspired to design the typeface FF Mister – by now a well known classic.

Over the years, FF Mister K became a handsome typeface family and even produced offspring: the Josef K Patterns. Some of Kafka’s most expressive letterforms were the starting point for these decorative ornaments.
How do the Patterns work? Outlines and fillings correspond to the uppercase and the lowercase letters on your keyboard. You can use them separately or layer them on top of each other. If you write a line of “pattern-text” in lowercase and repeat it underneath in uppercase you get a row of fillings followed by a row of outlines. Now you can color them and then set line space = 0 to get a single line of layered colored ornaments. Alternatively, activating OpenType / stylistic set / stylistic alternates will also unite the two lines to a single layered line. Further magic can be done with OpenType / contextual alternates turned on.

Foundry Juliasys
Fonts 3
Price $6.00
Released 2012
Fontspring Debut 2013
Style Dingbat

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