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Polka Serif
After a guest seminar from Göran Söderström, from Letters from Sweden, he spoke about that it is challenging and fun to create a typeface that comes with a set of rules. That's my inspiration for Polka Serif.
Polka Serif is a typeface that consists of 7x7 dotted areas – made with a restriction for digital boards, with an even greater usage area outside of that. No letter is bigger than 7x7 dots, and all of them (if possible) is made as a serif. Available in the Swedish alphabet in capitals. In this series of pictures you'll see an example of how and where it's possible to use Polka Serif.
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LOCO Festival Swedish Cider in four different flavours. Above you see an example of where you can use Polka Serif in a playful manner. The inspiration came from the digital bus signs we have in Malmö and their digital (sans serif) typeface. I wanted to play with it, and remake it to a more playful design.
Thank you for watching!