Another modular concept!
My idea was to create letters that could be rotated 90° to create other letters, for example C > U > N > D and B > M > E > W.
![block font sketch 1](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cancunblock1.jpg)
Meantime, in making my Japanese/Chinese comic lettering font for Comicraft, I learned that Kanji are constructed by combining several words into a single character.
For example, the box shape below top left is “mouth”, and top right, mouth+dog = “bark”.
That word components can be stretched and squeezed to fill a half, a third, or even less of the square word shape. So I thought, could I combine pairs of Latin letters to fill a single letter space like Kanji? Today, we find out!
The process:
![block font process 1](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/block01.png)
![block font process 2](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/block02.png)
![block font process 3](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/block03.png)
![block font process 4](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/block04.png)
![block font process 5](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/block05.png)
![block font process 6](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/block08.png)
I see some interesting possibilities happening, but it will probably take a lot more trial and error to become something that really works and is readable.
Download:
![Swell Type Beta Five](https://swelltype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SwellTypeBetaFive-text.png)
The uppercase has the interlocking pairs but lowercase doesn’t, so you can take your pick. And I included the initial Heavy weight too, because it wasn’t bad.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think…