Fuzzbuzz
Fuzzbuzz is the result of Matthieu Cortat-Roller’s Ma-Ko class at ECAL Master Type Design.
After getting paired up with another student, we were each given a pair of two words and then tasked to draw the countershape (Ma) of a given sentence. We then exchanged our drawings with another student who then refined and drew the shape (Ko), we then exchanged back to refine the countershape and a final time for refined shapes.
My two words were Dizzy and for Display, which immediately made me draw inspiration from Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality album (and cover).
Afterwards, I went to digitize the result, and while preparing the specimen, I felt as the result was not really heavy enough to be heavy metal, which led to me more than doubling the weight of the type. The specimen itself revolves around metal and specifically doom metal as well as Black Sabbath.