Mač
Design
Design of the newsletter of the municipality of Řícmanice
The village of Řícmanice – a picturesque and wonderful village in the South Moravian Region.
I was approached by the village representatives to somehow edit the local Newsletter.
So I picked it up from the floor:
I changed the font and threw out the old dozen
enlarged the main headlines of the articles
abandoned the already somewhat outdated and small A5 format and introduced the generous B5
and arranged for the printer to change the paper to Chamois offset type so that the printing black would be truly black-black
Graphic cooperation with the municipality of Řícmanice continues and we are publishing new issues...
Soundscape and the Krub2 font
When I had already finished half (!) of the first songbook, I started listening to the recordings of the original Native American songs again. (They can be found on YouTube)
And suddenly it stopped working together – the font shape and the sound suddenly didn't go together at all!
Has the weather changed, my mood, or have I become more deeply immersed in the sonorous songs? I don't know!
Maybe I made a spelling mistake at the very beginning.
The chosen font didn't work – it was sharp, cut-off in its skeleton.
Listening attentively to Lakota songs simply required a different approach, a different form – those Indian spirituals are full of soft vocal vowels.
The ear doesn't hear any hard edges there --> and I knew that I had to "revamp" it graphically, from the very beginning, i.e. change the font. The hard font "FiraSans" had to go!
Now it was necessary to find a script that would match the phonetic character of the songs. This script also had to include the special characters of the Lakota transcription.
And I found it - a beautiful rounded font with the mysterious name Krub2 .
