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Liz Collini

I live and work in London, where I have a studio. I am a member of East London Printmakers, an artists' collective based in Hackney.

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Elementar

Submitted By Peter Bilak

Dear Surfstation,
I enjoy your website very much, and thought you might be interested in seeing our latest project - Elementar.

Elementar is a parametric bitmap font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. Elementar embraces and explores the unique properties of digital media: the pixel, the coarse resolution grid, and the dimension of time.
http://www.typotheque.com/blog/elementar

Elementar comes with a browser-based Font Navigator for browsing the thousands of available fonts, using sliders to explore different heights, weights and styles of the font system.
http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/elementar

Besides the Elementar online interface, Typotheque also offers a free iPad app. The Elementar App is an innovative, intuitive way to select parametric bitmap fonts just by swiping to browse through the thousands of combinations of heights, weights and styles.
http://www.typotheque.com/blog/elementar_app

Kind regards, Peter Bilak
http://www.typotheque.com

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