{"id":604550,"date":"2026-09-03T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604550\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:42:14","slug":"paperclip-contour-meet-clippy-kanon-foundry-takes-a-1973-typeface-and-makes-it-flexible-across-15-different-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604550\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperclip Contour, meet Clippy: Kanon Foundry takes a 1973 typeface and makes it flexible across 15 different styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"bz10r\">The variable font technology allows Clippy to move between Retalic, Roman and Italic with fifteen styles that cover a range of weights \u2013 it\u2019s quite the range for one system, all tied together with a similar, playful character and the freedom to find out what works best for the intended use. Besides Paperclip Contour, Tor took inspiration from modular lettering such as Herbert Bayer\u2019s work, and as new weights and associations emerged during the creation of Clippy, Tor saw similarities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcheck.com\/what-is-e13b-font\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">E13B-like<\/a> mid-weights and CNC engraving, a manufacturing process that utilises computer-controlled machines to carve and etch lettering into materials.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5u56o\">\u201cThe most obvious change was turning the contour style into a filled typeface, but I also added uppercase letters and redesigned the numbers to fit the system,\u201d says Tor. \u201cEarly on, I realised the rounded shapes could work well as a variable font, rocking between Retalic and Italic masters. The result reminded me of a roly-poly toy. Later, we produced a few physical roly-poly toys based on the lowercase a.\u201d Some glyphs in the re-designed Paperclip Contour were redesigned to make the \u2018rocking\u2019 movement work better, for example: the lowercase j created spacing issues because of its wide hook, so it was replaced with a straight Futura-style tail. In its motion assets, Clippy is clearly designed to rock and roll, back and forth, wiggle and swing \u2013 it\u2019s a nod to the revolving, curvy metal of the simple paperclip, its bendy attitude and highly satisfying architecture. There\u2019s no better typeface than Clippy to explore that motion and momentum, for it\u2019s exactly the kind of energetic movement that makes it feel like the perfect update on a typographic classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The variable font technology allows Clippy to move between Retalic, Roman and Italic with fifteen styles that cover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-604550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}