It can sometimes feel as if the world is very small. The other day my friend Richard, who I know from one part of my life — bike riding and my jobs as a computer programmer — and who knows my interest in paper and folding, sent me a link to an article about a En Origami, a specialty font. When I went to read it, I discovered the author is my book arts friend Kate Godfrey! In her article, she explains how En Origami was constructed but ultimately she says it’s really only good as a titling font: “En Origami is a feat of typographic engineering, but it is severely limited as a font… A T-shirt for the local origami club might be just the job for En Origami.” There’s a sample below. And Kate has other font reviews here.
Wow! Thanks, Ms. Green Chair (and Richard). It was great fun to review Naveen Chandru’s work. He’s a young typography stretching the boundaries while using a neat little program called fontstruct.
I have my editor, Laura Blackwell at PCWorld.com to thank for giving me the green light to cover his work
True, En Origami isn’t for text, but imagine it as an ccordion-style abc book or an inspiring embroidery project if the “front” and “back: of the letter were done in different colors…Sweet!