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Josef K Patterns

Josef K® Patterns

by Juliasys
Individual Styles from $9.60 USD
Complete family of 3 fonts: $19.60 USD
Josef K Patterns Font Family was designed by Julia Sysmäläinen and published by Juliasys. Josef K Patterns contains 3 styles and family package options.

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About 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. On the gallery page of this font family is a downloadable Josef K Patterns.pdf with an alphabetical overview of forms. Hundreds of patterns are possible … we’d love to see some of yours and present them here on the website!

Designers: Julia Sysmäläinen

Publisher: Juliasys

Foundry: Juliasys

Design Owner: Juliasys

MyFonts debut: Mar 21, 2015

Josef K® Patterns is a registered trademark of Julia Sysmäläinen.

About Juliasys

Juliasys Type Studio’s center of gravity is just beside the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg. It was founded by Julia Sysmäläinen and partners in 2007. What are we doing there? Hard working in type & identity design, always with a pinch of humour. We create fonts, icons and complete visual identities, do custom and retail projects, and work with partners in different countries. Some of our custom design clients are Beiersdorf Hamburg, Bosch Stuttgart, Freshbooks Toronto, Liebherr Germany, Monotype Germany, Mars and Waitrose London, Remes & Packart Helsinki and Harpers Publishers New York. Widely known are our true-to-life script fonts of the handwriting of authors and artists - such as Franz Kafka, Emily Dickinson, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jean Sibelius.

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