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Essay, 2026 · 12 min read

A short essay on working with a single typeface. Notes kept over a year of small projects, on what one family can carry when weight and size do all the work.

The argument is simple: fewer choices make the remaining ones visible. A heading is a heading because of its size, not its color or its box.

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Field notes: twelve months of small projects set in a single typeface, and what that taught me about restraint