My Foray Into Font Building
I took a class at Cooper Union called “Principles of Typeface Design” and learned how to draw characters, sketch my own system by hand and create it in Robofont. My typeface, Kasvi Sans, will be a continuing project.


“Create your own typeface brief.” was the instruction. Here was mine:
“Design a botanically-inspired typeface. It should be able to live as headline or the main message of a greeting card.” The name Kasvi comes from the Finnish word for plant.  


Hand-drawn and Digital Construction

Current Iteration




English, Finnish and Portuguese Pangrams
Finnish: A posh Viennese zombie who speaks Sioux likes Åsa’s Roquefort tacos

Portuguese: At night, Grandpa Kowalsky sees the magnet fall on the whining enguins foot and grandma puts sugar in the happy tortoise’s date tea


© Amanda Hynynen Pilnik