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Kelsey Elder

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Fonts   Gravity Racer
  Labore
  Meager

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Tools    Glyphs Scripts  Letter.Matter

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Projects   Rare Books & Ancestral Machines  Coterie Baby  Emmett Till Memory Project  Melting Metal   Second Shift Autowerks   Dead Bird Letters   Greeting Cards   Ameri-Candied Dreams

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Teaching   Teaching-Type.com   Design Incubation:
    Design Educator Award  ATYPI Brisbane:
    Typographic Gravity Racers   TypeCon Portland: 
    Teaching Type As The Final Frontier

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Gravity Racers A component-based variable font with upright and cursive construction styles, each built on three axes — Size, Rotate, and Kaleidoscope — to explore motion, modularity, and generative form-making. The Size axis scales each component (increasing apparent weight), Rotate cycles the letterforms through a full 360° loop for kinetic transitions, and Kaleidoscope fractures the shapes into patterned structures by progressively opening corners via scripted logic. Together, these axes produce circular, animated effects within the linear logic of traditional interpolation.

In addition to its motion-oriented variable design, the font includes twelve static instances per style, designed to layer chromatically. Developed through teaching and studio practice, the typeface functions as a testbed for multi-axis variable fonts, layered and color-font formats, OpenType feature development, and Python tooling.

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