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Poison frog obsession
Published on July 18, 2019
Bright colored and blobby shaped patterns of the poison dart frog mixed together with the strangely formed muscles in Japanese woodcuts. Kaeru kaeru combines both inspirations in one typeface.
It was created in a seminar called "Type – Inspiration elsewhere" led by Jérémy Landes at the HfG Karlsruhe. The idea of the seminar was, to take different inspirations out of nature and illustrations and try to combine them to one typeface.
Kaeru Kaeru is our first co-release with another type foundry. On the 18/06/2019, Kaeru Kaeru was released at the exact same on the website of the NoFoundry an Velvetyne. NoFoundry is the student lead foundry of the HfG Karlsruhe. They release fonts and organize events and workshops. Isabel Motz is one of the founding members of the NoFoundry.