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Cosmica is Chester Jenkins’ first new publication in 5 years. During that time, he has been working with members of Village to prepare their types for release, and has produced several bespoke types for clients.

Cosmica started life in mid-2014 as an exploration into taking the Galaxie skeleton — already fleshed out as Polaris, Cassiopeia, and Copernicus — and applying its rules of construction to a geometric sans.

In recent years I had been called on by a few clients to develop geometric sans types, including a revival of Futura for Maharam, and a collaboration with Magnus Rakeng on the types for the Norwegian Airports authority, Avinor, and felt that it was time to bring the compass back home and apply it to my own work.

My earlier designs, notably Apex and Polaris, were often labeled as “superellipse” designs. This was a term I did not know until it was thrown in my direction. According to Wolfram MathWorld “A superellipse is a curve with the following Cartesian equation…

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