Interconnected Planetary
Currently working on this poster. Have to print this in two runs because not enough letters ‘c’ and ,‘t’ to spell these four words all in one go.
That means the technical challenge here is to build a forme that allows for moving the type around within it, exactly so that the words end up in the right place.
These two rectangular blocks can be swapped.
After some measurements before printing and corrections of those measurements after printing tests, I got the text into a nice position on the paper.
There’s bit more kerning to do before starting production. Not much I can do about that LA combination, but IN, NNE and NE need a bit more air between them I think. And replace that grainy O.
There’s a TA combination in there as well which normally creates more than enough white space inbetween them. I was already using a letter T which had a part sawed off when I thought ‘wait a minute, that’s probably because of…’ and indeed, there was an A that had a notch sawed off exactly so that the TA combination could be made more compact:
