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		<title>Between Naturalness, Terribleness and Sweetness</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text.jpg 2476w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text-768x418.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text-1536x836.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text-2048x1115.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2476px) 100vw, 2476px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>oday</span>, next to my morning cup of espresso, is a small opusculum, first printed, it seems, in 1949. It is a small monograph on the <em>Centaur</em> typeface by <span class="author">Bruce Rogers</span>. My friend Chris Wakeling, an excellent English printer, sent it to me. And again, it makes me philosophize about that love of printed letterforms that I still love so much and that has been with me through all my life’s circumstances. It’s such a pleasure to look at these shapes, once so carefully drawn or engraved by hand, or more recently created digitally on a screen. And I still wonder where they came from, what it is that makes them shine so mystically for me.  

It’s no longer a secret that I draw my <em>Bézier</em> lines inspired by the shapes, curves and lines of the female body. It is something like a game between many factors. In a book about <span class="author">Raffaello</span>, the Italian Renaissance painter, I read about these influences in terms of “<em>Naturalness</em>”, “<em>Terribleness</em>” and “<em>Sweetness</em>” that the artists of those days struggled with, to tend to either one side or the other. And I think it’s always this that shapes our designs. On the one hand, admiration of nature: how it creates “outlines” of forms guided by an inner structure, like the curve of a leaf or, yes, the beautiful sinuous lines of a female body, conditioned in themselves by bone and muscle. On the other hand, there is also a certain will to achieve an ideal form in the sense of geometry. Our eye loves it when things become symmetrical or oval shapes become perfect circles. Because, as often said, it was this striving for perfection that pushed artists to their limits. Bones and muscles, extreme bends and perspective forms were called “<em>Terribleness</em>”; “<em>Sweetness</em>” was the opposite, that is, the willingness to refine the created forms so that they became almost artificial, self-sufficient and praising more the artists than their own origins. And finally, there was “<em>Naturalness</em>”, which can be described as a successful balance between these tendencies. Creating forms that show their original principles, movement, strength and organicity, but without exaggerating. A balance between brutal structure and sweetness. 



<blockquote>We wrestle with the structure and pressure with which the pen put its forms on paper, and the will to find in their inner and outer forms something that tends to be geometric, ideal or perfect.</blockquote>



I have always thought that this also applies to the forms of printed letters. When we draw their outlines “artificially”, imitating a calligraphic form once written, we wrestle with the structure and pressure with which the pen put its forms on paper, and the will to find in their inner and outer forms something that tends to be geometric, ideal or perfect.

Above you can see some pictures of the process of creating Bézier curves for my font <em>Signer</em>, which is meant for text sizes. For inspiration, I used the beautiful photograph of <span class="author">Marc Lagrange</span> on my desktop background. When I drew the curves of ‘<em>9</em>’, or rather corrected what I found when it was systematically derived from the very thin original shape, I especially liked the connections of the bowls. It reminded me of such shapes as we find in the movement of a shoulder, which lets us see clearly what forces are at work here to bend muscles and incline bones before they form the curves of their surface on the skin. I liked the way the lower part of the hairline enlarges before dipping into the main oval on the right side.

But at the same time, almost unconsciously, I became aware of what was happening to the inner shape, the oval enclosed in the eye of the character, the so-called <em>counter</em>. I tried to round it softer, to get it closer to a circle (read also the previous post why). In a word, I was getting dangerously close to the “<em>Sweetness</em>”. The softer and rounder our counterforms become, the more the letter as a whole loses its structure, its stability guided by inner forces. The female body itself is the perfect example of this precarious balance. So when we draw in reality, we are always struggling, once approaching one side and then perhaps returning to the original principle. Yet the human body, at least to me, is the crown of these principles. Because when we create something, we may want it to be similar to ourselves.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Marc Lagrange</span> | Photography
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text.jpg" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text.jpg 2476w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text-768x418.jpg 768w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text-1536x836.jpg 1536w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lagrange_19-signer-text-2048x1115.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2476px) 100vw, 2476px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>oday</span>, next to my morning cup of espresso, is a small opusculum, first printed, it seems, in 1949. It is a small monograph on the <em>Centaur</em> typeface by <span class="author">Bruce Rogers</span>. My friend Chris Wakeling, an excellent English printer, sent it to me. And again, it makes me philosophize about that love of printed letterforms that I still love so much and that has been with me through all my life’s circumstances. It’s such a pleasure to look at these shapes, once so carefully drawn or engraved by hand, or more recently created digitally on a screen. And I still wonder where they came from, what it is that makes them shine so mystically for me.  

It’s no longer a secret that I draw my <em>Bézier</em> lines inspired by the shapes, curves and lines of the female body. It is something like a game between many factors. In a book about <span class="author">Raffaello</span>, the Italian Renaissance painter, I read about these influences in terms of “<em>Naturalness</em>”, “<em>Terribleness</em>” and “<em>Sweetness</em>” that the artists of those days struggled with, to tend to either one side or the other. And I think it’s always this that shapes our designs. On the one hand, admiration of nature: how it creates “outlines” of forms guided by an inner structure, like the curve of a leaf or, yes, the beautiful sinuous lines of a female body, conditioned in themselves by bone and muscle. On the other hand, there is also a certain will to achieve an ideal form in the sense of geometry. Our eye loves it when things become symmetrical or oval shapes become perfect circles. Because, as often said, it was this striving for perfection that pushed artists to their limits. Bones and muscles, extreme bends and perspective forms were called “<em>Terribleness</em>”; “<em>Sweetness</em>” was the opposite, that is, the willingness to refine the created forms so that they became almost artificial, self-sufficient and praising more the artists than their own origins. And finally, there was “<em>Naturalness</em>”, which can be described as a successful balance between these tendencies. Creating forms that show their original principles, movement, strength and organicity, but without exaggerating. A balance between brutal structure and sweetness. 



<blockquote>We wrestle with the structure and pressure with which the pen put its forms on paper, and the will to find in their inner and outer forms something that tends to be geometric, ideal or perfect.</blockquote>



I have always thought that this also applies to the forms of printed letters. When we draw their outlines “artificially”, imitating a calligraphic form once written, we wrestle with the structure and pressure with which the pen put its forms on paper, and the will to find in their inner and outer forms something that tends to be geometric, ideal or perfect.

Above you can see some pictures of the process of creating Bézier curves for my font <em>Signer</em>, which is meant for text sizes. For inspiration, I used the beautiful photograph of <span class="author">Marc Lagrange</span> on my desktop background. When I drew the curves of ‘<em>9</em>’, or rather corrected what I found when it was systematically derived from the very thin original shape, I especially liked the connections of the bowls. It reminded me of such shapes as we find in the movement of a shoulder, which lets us see clearly what forces are at work here to bend muscles and incline bones before they form the curves of their surface on the skin. I liked the way the lower part of the hairline enlarges before dipping into the main oval on the right side.

But at the same time, almost unconsciously, I became aware of what was happening to the inner shape, the oval enclosed in the eye of the character, the so-called <em>counter</em>. I tried to round it softer, to get it closer to a circle (read also the previous post why). In a word, I was getting dangerously close to the “<em>Sweetness</em>”. The softer and rounder our counterforms become, the more the letter as a whole loses its structure, its stability guided by inner forces. The female body itself is the perfect example of this precarious balance. So when we draw in reality, we are always struggling, once approaching one side and then perhaps returning to the original principle. Yet the human body, at least to me, is the crown of these principles. Because when we create something, we may want it to be similar to ourselves.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Marc Lagrange</span> | Photography
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		<title>Advanced, The First Sketches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Design Process]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Natalia_a.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Natalia_a.png 1074w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Natalia_a-768x495.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>ften</span> the design of a new character begins with something as imperfect and, yet, at the same time so beautiful as the human body.

This is one of the first drafts of ‘<em>a</em>’ of the <em>Advanced</em> font. It is no secret anymore that I am a great admirer of photographer <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span>, especially for his collaborations with Russian supermodel <a href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/essay/il-concetto-della-bellezza/" title="Il Concetto della Bellezza"><span class="author">#Natalia Vodianova</span></a>. They seem to have something like a really intimate relation ship how it rarely happens over such a long period of time between an artist and his muse.

For me both of them are often vital when it comes to helping into life my new letter forms. I experimented a lot with simple <em>Sans Serif</em> text fonts that should keep some of those fragile and sensible aspects that occur in the game of bones and muscles in the human body and which is so hard to achieve with <span class="author">Bézier</span> curves without them looking clumsy or just <em>badly drawn</em>.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Natalia Vodianova</span> | Model]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Natalia_a.png" class="attachment-md_post_thumb_large size-md_post_thumb_large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Natalia_a.png 1074w, https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Natalia_a-768x495.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px" /></p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">O</span>ften</span> the design of a new character begins with something as imperfect and, yet, at the same time so beautiful as the human body.

This is one of the first drafts of ‘<em>a</em>’ of the <em>Advanced</em> font. It is no secret anymore that I am a great admirer of photographer <span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span>, especially for his collaborations with Russian supermodel <a href="https://frammenti.stefanseifert.com/essay/il-concetto-della-bellezza/" title="Il Concetto della Bellezza"><span class="author">#Natalia Vodianova</span></a>. They seem to have something like a really intimate relation ship how it rarely happens over such a long period of time between an artist and his muse.

For me both of them are often vital when it comes to helping into life my new letter forms. I experimented a lot with simple <em>Sans Serif</em> text fonts that should keep some of those fragile and sensible aspects that occur in the game of bones and muscles in the human body and which is so hard to achieve with <span class="author">Bézier</span> curves without them looking clumsy or just <em>badly drawn</em>.

<strong>Credits:</strong>
<span class="author">Paolo Roversi</span> | Photography
<span class="author">Natalia Vodianova</span> | Model]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Assomiglianza</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 07:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Talvolta, o forse sempre quando si manifesta una cosa che chiamiamo bella, più che trovare...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">T</span>alvolta,</span> o forse sempre quando si manifesta una cosa che chiamiamo <em>bella</em>, più che trovare in essa una mera assomiglianza [un assemblaggio] di due parti (ovvero un’armonia), una <em>accenna</em> all’altra, come in un corpo nobile una certa sporgenza della clavicola (le quali linee si raddoppiano appena percettibile dai muscoli accostati quando il braccio si muove: come doppie ali di una farfalla) ci fa dedurre – e non ci inganna –, una linea a ‘<em>u</em>’ del seno, che per un certo tratto si adegua quasi del tutto nella linea del torace, del petto, prima di elevarsi con una certa rapidità. </p>
<blockquote><p>Allora è come fosse non la somiglianza in sé, di queste due parti reclusi, che contasse, ma un’armonia ben al di fuori del corpo (o del viso) stesso, – che quasi solo per un momento lo «usassero» –, cioè quella di due cerchi che non necessariamente si intrecciano, ma che sono uno in dipendenza dall’altro. Ammesso questo, una bellezza individuale non esisterebbe.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Das erinnert mich an einen schönen <em>Titel</em>, den ich einmal entworfen hatte, nichts als zwei kleine Wörter aus einer Kursivschrift gesetzt, die ich jedoch an beiden Seiten, durch die Buchstaben selbst hindurch (auf ihrer rechten Seite fügte ich ein drittes kaum angedeutetes Wort hinzu) abgeschnitten hatte: als stammten sie aus einem Satz, einem größeren Text. Die kleine Wortgruppe blieb so an beiden Seiten offen, unabgeschlossen, und bildeten dennoch, gerade auf diese Weise eine bessere Harmonie mit dem ganzen, weißen Raum des Blattes.</p>
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		<title>Vita Balneare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 07:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Il lento tuffarsi delle madri sulle onde tarde pomeridiane…; perché nessun posto sa spiegarci meglio...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">I</span>l</span> lento tuffarsi delle madri sulle onde tarde pomeridiane…; perché nessun posto sa spiegarci meglio l’essenza d’un essere umano, con più <em>intimità</em>, come riesce a fare davanti a noi la vita balneare.</p>
<p>Il corpo nel suo stato di ozio non è camuffato da nessun vestimento e i piccoli gesti s’ingrandiscono all’infinito.</p>
<p>Gli sguardi che non sono diretti ad accompagnare un’azione precisa, l’espressione del corpo che non è rivolto a sbrigare le attività di tutti i giorni.</p>
<blockquote><p>È come emettessero essi una luce propria, un riverbero indistinto delle cose del quotidiano, ma che ce lo fa vedere più dal loro lato interno che da quello esterno; come quella luce fiacca che di alcuna notte si vede emettere dal lato della luna non illuminato, e che in verità, certo, non è altro che il riflesso della luce rimandata dalla terra stessa per una via indiretta.</p></blockquote>
<p>Una luce che a differenza dell’altra al cui aspetto ci siamo abituati non trasborda, per via della sua intensità, i contorni della sua forma, e ci fa capire appunto per questo con più esattezza la corporeità dell’astro stesso, il suo vero essere di rocce e terra.<span class="note">1</span></p>
<p>Così vedevo davanti al mio occhio interno la camera in cui si svolge la cena in loro famiglia, dal tetto basso, e tra i muri spessi arrotondati agli angoli, imbianchiti nella maniera dei paesi del sud, la grande tavola di legno. Ma forse questo, più che altro, la vedevo nascere spinto dal mio desiderio di romanticismo, per quanto, però, non tradisse la mia vena turistica e una profonda invidia per una vita regolare, naturale, come mi sembrava <em>dovesse</em> essere.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>1 — Oppure come i fotografi che usano di intenzione le pareti ruvide e neglette per far risplendere ancora di più la modella che vi si posa davanti.</p>
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		<title>La Superficie Magica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 06:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Quando un ritratto oppure il disegno di una lettera in noi, prima di evocare la...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">Q</span>uando</span> un ritratto oppure il disegno di una lettera in noi, prima di evocare la sensazione di essere una proiezione di cose e strutture, corpi, linee, spazi (in quanto loro rimangono chiaramente rintracciabili in essa), ne fanno un qualcos’altro, di diverso: ci presentano una «superficie magica».</p>
<p>Come in un ricordo d’una ragazza, della quale non fossimo riusciti a spiegarci il fascino, e la cui evidente bellezza non era costituita da alcun elemento <em>rintracciabile</em>, o per la sua relativa collocazione tra altri, come lo erano, per esempio, i capelli neri impressi sullo sfondo o le pur fini fattezze delle membra (come le mani cui dita dai lineamenti graziosi, tenendo in grembo un libro, volevano coprire o forse vivificare nel loro gioco un bacino dall’ossatura ancora fanciullesca che rendeva una leggera impressione di <em>«piattezza»</em>, causata dalle anche troppo rientranti rispetto al suo fisico intero, e che ce ne dava un cert’effetto di bidimensionalità: forse simile al tale che sente un animale selvaggio in cattura per la sua gabbia, contro cui sbarre si vede costretto, senza esaminare lo sfondo della sua prigione, a strofinare il pelo girandovene la fronte da un lato all’altro); ma in cui tutti i pregi, e persino i difetti<span class="note">1</span> facevano posto ad una materia <em>misteriosa</em>, indistinta, priva di qualsiasi struttura corporea e manifestantesi solamente sulla <em>superficie</em>, che forse semplicemente consisteva nel portare la sua gioventù – come le fosse un effimero velo fluttuante davanti la bocca – a «fior di labbra».</p>
<blockquote><p>So that like in a Degas pastel the structure of the surface became more important than the structure of its composite objects.
</p></blockquote>
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<p>1 – In certi corpi giovini sembra che l’occhio perdoni di tutto (persino le apparenti malformità) perché sospetti che in loro la natura seguisse un suo <em>«piano»</em> di bellezza, qualunque ne sia l’intento, con più precisione e con una certa <em>acutezza</em>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[A causa che la vedevo di dietro l’occhio si confondeva un’attimo dal suo stile di...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="initial"><span class="cap">A</span></span> causa che la vedevo di dietro l’occhio si confondeva un’attimo dal suo stile di vestirsi «da vecchia» come lo si vede qualche volta in certe donne giovani (e neppure i suoi capelli troppo fini non davano segno di non appartenere a una donna vecchia), ma infine con sicurezza scorgeva nella sua dolcezza della forma una gamba giovanile: che quasi «traspirava» attraverso la lana nera (o di un blu scuro) della calza benché essa (o perché!) non lasciava travedere la pelle.</p>
<p>Più tardi l’osservavo seduta con le gambe accavallate e mi chiedevo in quale miracolo consisteva quella <em>dolcezza di forma</em>. Vedevo che in quel tratto che cominiciava dalla punta del dito del piede della gamba sovrapposto, fino al punto sulla sua fronte a metà sulla via verso il ginocchio*, lì dove l’osso leggermente si solleva, cedendo appena percettibilmente la linea del contorno al muscolo dal di dietro (come in certi foglie succose che si sfaldano di mattina su cui contorni nella controluce si distingue prima una parte dello stelo di sotto prima che la sagoma verrà descritta dai margini del lato superiore), descriveva un pezzo di un perfetto <em>cerchio</em>.</p>
<p>D’altra parte il contorno muscolare che sta per iniziare lì, rassomigliava più ad una rettilinea (come del resto corrispondente nella linea opposta dove il muscolo si distaccava teneramente al di sotto) cosicché le due nature delle linee, diverse per la loro origine, qui si avvicinavano invece di distinguersi troppo forte; in quanto da un lato la morbidezza di quella muscolare o carnale ne era in lei salda e prolungata, e dall’altro quella ossea sudescritta per i suoi tratti intermedi circolari (come in quel insieme di dorso di piede e osso frontale) evidenziava un’elastica flessuosità; cosicché per un istinto mi veniva la voglia di lodare il punto iniziale di tale gioco, cioè quel piede carezzevole, e di coprirlo di baci.</p>
<p>*Infatti la sua gamba, non essendo troppo lunga, faceva sì che proporzionalmente le due parti lasciate da quella divisione per lunghezza non erano troppo diseguali (come lo sono nella maggior parte dei casi). E, come spesso descrivo, quel avvicinamento di lunghezza in due parti che tra esse fanno un gioco di rispecchiamento di proporzione è uno dei segni inconfondibile d’un corpo giovane.</p>
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