HWT Konop was created by Mark Simonson and released by Hamilton Wood Type Foundry. HWT Konop consists of 3 styles and household plan options. p > HWT Konop is a monospaced (fixed-width) typeface that is also square! Created by Mark Simonson (Proxima Nova) as square characters that can be set up vertically or horizontally and in any orientation. To a traditional letterpress job printer, a font like this would not make much sense. But to a contemporary letterpress printer it is an unusual and creative style toolkit.

The bold gothic design is similar to gothic wood types but more geometric. Given that the characters are suggested to be utilized in any orientation, the typical optical changes, such as making verticals thicker than horizontals and making tops smaller than bottoms are set aside. This results in an eccentric however lovely design.

To provide more design choices, Simonson developed a modular system including three sizes: 12-line, 8-line, and 6-line. These three sizes can be utilized together like Lego ® bricks, with endless arrangements possible. And the sidebearing match so that characters always align when various sizes are utilized together.

The digital variation of Konop reproduces the wood type version as much as possible, including the 3 various size designs. It consists of OpenType stylistic sets that enable most characters to be rotated in place, 90 ° left, 90 ° right, or 180 °, just like the wood type version. Extra characters not offered in the wood type version are consisted of with the digital typefaces. The set of 3 is priced simply $5 more than one single typeface, so order by means of 'Package Options'

HWT Konop is called for Don Konop, a retired Hamilton Production employee, who worked from 1959 to 2003. In addition to serving on the Two Rivers Historic Society Board from 2004 to present-day, he was also instrumental as a volunteer in aiding with the museum's relocate to its present house in 2013.

Font Family:
· HWT Konop 6 Line
· HWT Konop 8 Line
· HWT Konop 12 Line

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