Polyform

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Polyform [Lisa Huang] Lisa Huang was born and grew up in France, and is currently based in Paris. Lisa studied mostly in Paris in graphic design before going further in type and typography with Type@Cooper Condensed program in 2015 in New York City and a couple of years in design companies such as BETC Design and type foundry Black[Foundry] both in Paris. In 2018, she graduated from TypeMedia at the KABK in The Hague. Lisa's specializes in multi-cultural projects, especially mixing Latin / French and Chinese cultures. In 2019, she founded a graphic and type design studio with her partner Thomas Kim called Polyform Studio (Paris). At Type@Paris 2016, Lisa Huang designed the warm text/sans typeface pair Julie et Julien. Her graduation typeface at KABK was Model Sans and Display (2018). She writes: I paid my attention to the balance between conventional structures of sans serif typefaces, optical corrections for legibility, and details from hand drawn shapes to give it personality. Contributor in 2019 to the variable programming font Recursive Sans+Mono, the brainchild of Stephen Nixon. Github page where we learn that contributors besides Stephen Nixon include Katja Schimmel, Lisa Huang and Rafal Buchner. In 2019, these authors published Recursive as a variable font with five axes, Mono, casual, weight, slant and italics. Dedicated page. It will be added to Google Fonts at some point.	EXTERNAL LINKS Polyform MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in France ⦿ Type design in China ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿ Fonts for programming ⦿