Wasabi is the re-imagining of my extremely first release, Iru. Like Iru, Wasabi was heavily affected by the monument lettering style, Vermarco.

The simple, geometric forms enabled little lettering sizes to be sandblasted easily and has been a monolith lettering workhorse for years ... the only problem focused around the absence of a lowercase or any other letters beyond the 26 uppercase glyphs and the characters. Wasabi solves this with the same easy, effective line similar to the old Vermarco while bringing it into the 21st century. Visual and optical incongruities of the original uppercase were changed with brand-new analyses for the capital letters, a new lowercase and small caps was produced and the original single weight alphabet was replaced with 6 brand-new weights.

Wasabi has numerous ‘‘ lighter' weights mainly since the thin lines and simple shifts produce really elegant relationships ... and I desired to make certain those relationships might be checked out despite the scale of letter. Stylistic Alternates show up through the upper, lowercase and small cap glyphs that try to streamline these shapes a lot more when the chance arises.

Another interesting aspect to Wasabi is its small caps. The height of the small caps is comparable to the x-height of the lowercase ... blended with the monolinear nature of the glyphs, you can produce some genuinely distinct combinations for titling and headlines.

Wasabi is as much an utilitarian typeface as it is a heading face. This awareness caused the decision to produce a buddy Condensed version shortly after the initial routine weights were established and evaluated; so, attempt them all!


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