Typeface Design for Kosmos
Legibility as a spectrum, not a given
Kosmos is an experimental type system by Good Type Foundry built around expandable, overlapping letterform shapes. Across its weight range, forms shift from subtle and legible to densely muddled and unreadable.
Set in Kosmos
Insights
- The system is built on expandable overlapping shapes — a structural property that the source links directly to the progression toward illegibility at heavier weights.
- The weight range is described as ending in 'unreadable muddiness', indicating illegibility is an acknowledged characteristic of the system's extremes.
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