Kodama Typeface

Type design

KODAMA is a grotesque, experimental Far-East writing system based, latin typeface with more than thousands ligature combinations with sharp strokes and strong contrast. Originally designed for Pinetime’s AW22-23 collection.The font is influenced by the Japanese alphabet and writing systems. Retaining its characteristics and traits where a kanji sign means a word, we transformed it into a Latin system and made a contemporary, all caps, sans-serif typeface. Based on the Japanese characters we built up a flexible typographic system of 2x2 letter boxes and the ligature combinations appear in an order when typing by which letter follows which.