Typeface - Wassily Bold

Wass Bold is an experimental typeface that was inspired by the dynamic and manic style of Russian designer Wassily Kandinsky. The 10 base shapes that the typeface is made from reflect the movement in the characters and how the typeface functions as a mechanical process for the reader. With a relatively low X-height, the open counters of all letters should also reflect that same letter in the negative space around them. The aim was to make a technically playful typeface that doesn’t completely denounce standard typographical ideas, of weighting and sizing. Its kerning is custom and it was a practice to create all letter forms out of ten shapes that could not be transformed, but only rotated.