Dash
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Type Design & Lettering / Variable Font / 2024
Based on science and research, but written with the mastery of a skilled hand, Dash is a handwriting typeface system that makes full use of variable expression. After carrying out research for over a year into educational handwriting models, and documenting the evolution of handwriting in the Western world, we have developed a typeface that not only uses the collective characteristics of handwriting as it is taught in schools, but also emulates how handwriting evolves over time into a personal expression of an individual.
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