Calidor KVL
an experimental typeface by Aliaksei Koval
14 June 2011
© Aliaksei Koval, Koval Type Foundry, 2004–2011
Contact information: phone: +375-29-633-30-29 e-mail: contact@koval.by web: www.koval.by
The idea The idea was to craete a typeface with strong negative spacing. Keep it readable and useful as a display typeface — that was the second aim. As a result I created typeface that can be installed and used as any font. But to get all the ‘magic’ you’ll have to do several steps.
Guide
Type text with Calidor KVL font
Outline it with cmd+shift+o (ctr+shift+o)
Ungroup with cmd+shift+u (ctr+shift+u)
Set transparency about 75%
Add a colour
really cool guide to the galaxy
Examples
In this presentation I gathered some lettering works done by hand and in digital form.
Some of them were done for commercial purposes, some were drawn as drafts and some are personal works.
Hope you’ll enjoy my lettering so don’t hesitate to contact to let me know you do.
Examples
Character set
See You
at MyFonts.com/ foundry/Koval_TF/