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Josef K Patterns

The most expressive shapes in Kafka’s handwriting were the source for creating the “Josef K Patterns” fonts. Stored in three OpenType fonts with contextual alternates and stylistic sets, you can use these ornaments as outlines or filled, and even make decorative patterns with them.

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Josef K Patterns: background and outline forms

How do the Josef K Patterns work?

Outlines and fillings correspond to the uppercase and the lowercase letters on your keyboard. You can use them separately or layer them on top of each other. If you write a line of “pattern-text” in lowercase and repeat it underneath in uppercase you get a row of fillings followed by a row of outlines.

Now you can color them and then set linespace = 0 to get a single line of layered colored ornaments. Alternatively, activating OpenType / stylistic set 1 / stylistic alternates will also unite the two lines to a single layered line. Further magic can be done by turning on OpenType / contextual alternates.

Josef K Patterns with contextual alternates — calt = contextual alternates are turned on.

Idiosyncratic caps and strongly lowercase glyphs typical for Kafka — Josef K Patterns Kitschy: L, V and M

creating solid textures with filled forms of Josef K Patterns

sample of filled forms of Josef K Patterns — Texture created with lower case letters of Josef K Patterns

Josef K Patterns: ornaments made of letter m — Josef K Patterns: M

Josef K Patterns: ornaments made using letter A — Josef K Patterns Stichy: A

Josef K Patterns: ornaments made using letter J — Josef K Patterns Kitschy: J

Josef K Patterns: ornaments made using letter k — Josef K Patterns Kitschy: k

Josef K Patterns: ornaments made using letter N — Josef K Patterns Kitschy: n

Josef K Patterns: ornaments made using letter R — Josef K Patterns Zippy: r

Josef K Patterns: ornaments made using letter i and g — Josef K Patterns Zippy: i and g

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