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TEKAN / Form Under Pressure
Self-initiated project
I explored pressure as a typographic condition. TEKAN places soft, heavy letterforms beside a sharp italic serif, moving between crowded compositions and open space. The name is Indonesian; the specimen and campaign language are English.
- Year
- 2026
- Disciplines
- TypographyEditorial designArt direction
The challenge
The experiment needed expressive forms without sacrificing recognizable words. I wanted the spaces within and between the letters to carry as much character as the strokes.
The idea
Compression and release. Bulging edges suggest a form being pressed into place; the italic cuts through it with a contrasting direction and weight. Changes in width, scale and spacing make the same vocabulary behave differently.
