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KIVOS

A series of wooden letters jumbled around, once again from Envato.

Kivos

A bunch of metallic letters for a metallic font.

Kivos is a display typeface featuring only capital letters and nothing else.

It was the first typeface I ever created, originally as an assignment for my Typography class in 2013. It's named for the Greek word for “cube.” I was sketching ideas on grid paper and, on a 5x4 rectangle, created letterforms by filling every other square.

The inspiration for the project was bitmap typefaces and dot-matrix printers. The holes in the squares were added following suggestions from the class to give the typeface a more visually interesting appearance, resulting in new forms resembling industrial bolts.

A mockup of the final Kivos poster against a vivid background.

All 26 letterforms in the font Kivos.

Three earlier versions of the Kivos poster I made based upon research for industrial-themed posters. The paragraphs on all three posters (as well as the final one) mostly read:

“Kids is an all-caps display typeface created by Michael Jacoby in 2013. Named for the Greek word meaning cube, it is made up of such shapes [only on the third early one; the other two say ‘made up of squares’], filling every other square in a 5x4 grid. The squares that occupy the spaces have a small square hole, resembling bolts. The overall feel of the typeface produces an industrial image.

Jacoby thought of the idea for the typeface while sketching ideas. During the process, he was thinking of dot-matrix printers and some bitmap typeface he had read about. He originally drew them as solid squares appearing in every other square in the grid. He show the idea to his class, who suggested adding holes to the squares. Jacoby had realized that the resulting forms resembled industrial bolts and went along with it.”

Another Envato image of a bunch of wooden letters jumbled around, book-ending this project.

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