Brandon Nickerson has unveiled BN Cathedral, a display typeface designed based on architectural elements of Gothic cathedrals. Its form is derived from the pointed arches found at the top of cathedral windows and the tracery, the stone decorations that divide the windows into sections. Nickerson transferred the ends of the arches and the curves of the stone decorations into the spaces between the strokes of the letters.

The work images released by the creator feature photographs of windows alongside text drawn based on their shapes. In one draft, a rounded four-leaf shaped empty space is placed inside a circle. Horizontal and vertical axes, along with diagonal guides, pass through the center of the shape. One can observe the process of applying a symmetrical structure derived from window decorations to the empty space within the text.

In another draft, a curve descends between the two pillars and meets at a point in the center. A draft with black text is placed below a photo of a window to compare which outline was taken. As the wide black strokes meet the white space between them, the same curve is read as the outline of an arch or the inner boundary of a letter, depending on the viewing position.

BN Cathedral is a display typeface designed for large-scale writing, as the title suggests. When the text is arranged in a large size, the sharp points at the ends of the strokes and the rounded curves inside are revealed together. You can view the completed typeface samples and character set on the official BN Type Foundry page.

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