Korpus
Korpus (Latin term for 'body') marks the German printing medium point size used in hot-metal setting, this is equal to ten points Didot. Korpus (or text corpus) can also refer to a composition of linguistic material consisting of a large and structured set of texts, of extracts from a collection of texts or statements that are the subject of a particular presentation. The typeface Korpus is the result of the exploration of errors in the type production process. Working with specimen sheets and proofs of several early twentieth-century typefaces, errors including distortions, physical flaws and mistakes in the process of transmitting letter designs from one medium to another, from metal to ink to paper were observed. Whereas most digital reconstructions of physical letters aim to smooth out or eliminate such faults, Korpus deliberately amplifies them.
Published by Binnenland
- Classification
- serif
- Weights
- Korpus A, Korpus A10, Korpus B, Korpus B12, Korpus C
- Released
- 2009