Typeface Design for Wind
A typeface designed to be viewed as much as read
Wind is a capital-only typeface by Amsterdam-based book and graphic designer Hansje van Halem, released through Typotheque in 2017. Its intricate layered construction is designed to generate optical illusions, with multiple layers intended to be combined and overlaid for hypnotic, pattern-driven effects. The family includes four static styles alongside two variable fonts offering a full 360-degree rotation range—one clockwise, one anti-clockwise. Coverage spans Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts.
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- Wind is Hansje van Halem's first published typeface, extending her established practice of experimental, pattern-driven graphic work into type design.
- The variable version comprises two separate fonts encoding opposite rotational directions—clockwise and anti-clockwise—rather than a single font with multiple axes.
- Outline complexity is significant enough that Typotheque documents known rendering issues in Adobe applications, recommending GPU/CPU performance setting adjustments.
- Peter Biľak contributed to the design and Thom Janssen handled engineering across all three scripts.
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