Two typefaces made from real objects
One is cut by hand from reclaimed magazines. One is pressed from a physical embossing label maker. Neither was drawn on a screen. Every glyph starts as something you could hold.
AP Collage
Artistic, joyful, irregular. Letters scissored out of reclaimed print, scanned one at a time and traced. No two cuttings alike — because no two cuttings are.
Open the Ransom MakerAP Emboss
Functional, precise, purposeful. Traced from strips run off a real embossing label maker. The deliberate opposite of the collage face, and shown beside it for exactly that reason.
Open the Label MakerThe provenance rule
Every glyph in AP Collage is a photograph of a letter that was really cut by hand. Nothing is generated, interpolated or substituted to fill a gap. If a letter is missing, it stays missing until someone cuts it.
That constraint is not a limitation of the project. It is the project.
Where it comes from
The collage face began around 2016, in Luiz Wagner Mestrinho's magazine-collage and zero-waste art practice. The seed artwork is the word Community, cut by hand for the Multi-Genre Night at Uncle Lou's in Orlando, August 2017. This is the same idea, finally built.
Licence
The code is MIT. The fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Downloads are free and always will be — donations are invited, never required.
Built in the open
This project is kept as a working record of how a human and an AI actually
collaborate, wrong turns included. The log lives in
docs/collaboration/ in the repository.