Seymour & Koda in-progress

‘Seymour’ is a design that’s been on the back burner for months, but is now finally being finished for release as a new single, or double weight display webfont. The face has been derived from mashing together Sigmar One with outlines scanned from a number of old Stephenson Blake grotesques.

The design for ‘Koda’ is an old off-shoot from the Coda webfont, re-shaped with the RoundingUFO app, expanded a little and tweaked to create a new display webfont, see the glyph comparison below

Coda itself was an experiment in creating a very straightforward webfont built strictly to the pixel grids of small to medium sized texts on standard screen resolutions. The designs have been refined since the earliest experiments and ‘Koda’ is a further departure, but with the underlying structure still very close to the original.