Charvet: A typeface project by Kenyan artist Kevin Karanja

Charvet: A typeface project by Kenyan artist Kevin Karanja
Kenyan fencer Alexandra Ndolo. PHOTO/ALEXANDRA NDOLO

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The NEST, a Kenyan multi-disciplinary arts organization that serves as a functional playground in which artists, thinkers and curious minds test new ideas within a context of vigorous debate, recently commissioned 20-year-old graphic artist Kevin Karanja to create a font of his own design.

After six months of experimenting and testing, this is the result: CHARVET – a font inspired by ancient African typography and Kevin’s love for geometrics.

Download the font here: http://www.becauseartislife.org/blog/22/6/2013-charvet-by-kevin-karanja

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