Back in 1998 I collaborated with strdub to produce tofu type, an art project to develop a typeface built out of different combinations of the same unique module. Like tofu, which absorbs its taste from other ingredients, the different characters would build their own identity from the different position and arrangement of one single shape.

The result was an unreadable typeface. It was not the point to achieve a good readability but to keep a basic recognizable structure for all the different characters. However many might be right by saying that this is not a real typeface but a visual exercise or an art project. Well, that is true.

I had lost track of this project completely until some days ago, when browsing Enrique’s site I found out that the website we developed to document the project (one of my very first websites) is still live.

Somewhere within my old back up discs I might keep the file with the typeface. Maybe one of these days I should make an effort and try to find where it lays.

See the ‘Tofu_type’ website.

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