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From digital skeleton to physical letterpress type
A23D Outline (2018) is a mono-linear, rounded typeface derived from A23D Solid, which was designed as a structural skeleton for a letterpress wireframe alphabet commissioned by New North Press in London. That solid core was extruded into a wireframe mesh, later 3D-printed and delivered to the client as a working letterpress type set. A23D Outline is described as the 'exoskeleton' iteration of that same underlying form.
Set in A23D Outline
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- A23D Solid was built first as a construction skeleton; the Outline derives from extruding that core into a wireframe mesh.
- The commission for New North Press resulted in a physically 3D-printed letterpress font set, connecting digital type design with traditional relief printing.
- A23D Outline is the 'exoskeleton' surface expression of the hidden solid core that drove the original design.
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