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Field Study — Type system for outdoors

Identity for a field gear co-op. Type scale first — from packing labels to trail signage — then everything else.

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Field Study — project preview

Overview

One font, everything else follows.

The previous identity broke below 10pt and had no tokens, so every print vendor rebuilt it by eye. A variable cut with optical sizes from 8pt to 120pt, drawn against the worst-case substrate first. Store, site, and a 96-page field guide shipped inside six weeks with no vendor callbacks.

Problem

The previous identity broke below 10pt and had no tokens, so every print vendor rebuilt it by eye.

Approach

A variable cut with optical sizes from 8pt to 120pt, drawn against the worst-case substrate first.

Outcome

Store, site, and a 96-page field guide shipped inside six weeks with no vendor callbacks.

Identity for a field gear co-op. Type scale first — from packing labels to trail signage — then everything else.

The previous identity broke below 10pt and had no tokens, so every print vendor rebuilt it by eye. A variable cut with optical sizes from 8pt to 120pt, drawn against the worst-case substrate first.

Store, site, and a 96-page field guide shipped inside six weeks with no vendor callbacks.

Screenshots

3 screenshots
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Field Study, screenshot 1 of 3
Type scale across the full range
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Field Study, screenshot 2 of 3
Applied to the primary surface
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Field Study, screenshot 3 of 3
Detail at production size

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