Kalamos typeface
Task: to design a typeface.
Kalamos is a display typeface with reverse contrast characteristic of traditional Hebrew faces based on the Middle Easter calligraphy which employed qalam, a specially sharpened pen made of reed.
Qalam, a reed pen
The shape of the characters is inspired by French Renaissance typefaces.
The typeface does not have serifs in the traditional sense as they would not have been possible with such a tilt of the writing instrument.
![type kalamos form 01 new](images/type-kalamos-form-01-new.png)
![type kalamos form 02 new](images/type-kalamos-form-02-new.png)
![type kalamos form 03](images/type-kalamos-form-03.jpg)
![type kalamos form 04 new](images/type-kalamos-form-04-new.png)
![type kalamos bluebg new](images/type-kalamos-bluebg-new.png)
Kalamos Regular 102 / 122
![type kalamos fontstyle new1](images/type-kalamos-fontstyle-new1.png)
![type kalamos fontstyle mob](images/type-kalamos-fontstyle-mob.png)
Regular
Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
![type kalamos music new](images/type-kalamos-music-new.png)
French
![type kalamos french](images/type-kalamos-french.png)
Spanish
![type kalamos spanish](images/type-kalamos-spanish.png)
Turkish
![type kalamos turkish](images/type-kalamos-turkish.png)
German
![type kalamos deutsch](images/type-kalamos-deutsch.png)
Serbian
![type kalamos serbian](images/type-kalamos-serbian.png)
Azerbaijani
![type kalamos zerbaijani](images/type-kalamos-zerbaijani.png)
Latvian
![type kalamos latvian](images/type-kalamos-latvian.png)
Irish
![type kalamos irish](images/type-kalamos-irish.png)
Slovenian
![type kalamos slovenian](images/type-kalamos-slovenian.png)
![type kalamos poster 01](images/type-kalamos-poster-01.png)
![type kalamos poster 02 new](images/type-kalamos-poster-02-new.png)
The typeface does not have serifs in the traditional sense as they would not have been possible with such a tilt of the writing instrument.
![type kalamos letter new1](images/type-kalamos-letter-new1.png)
![type kalamos bloq new](images/type-kalamos-bloq-new.png)
art director
designer
- Michael Gorenshtein