Falte SS was a font project requiring me to explore and create a modular typeface. The typeface was created using 5mm squares and right angled triangles. A modular typeface is an alphabet constructed out of a limited number of shapes or modules. Modular describes any letter assembled from a limited palette of distinct elements, repeated and flipped but not scaled. Typically these elements are geometric and simple in shape — square pixels on a digital display or modernist circles, squares, and lines.
The name Falte means fold in German. All the strips on the poster can be cut out and folded to the exact size of the letterforms on the poster. The Falte SS typeface was named Falte because of my inspiration for the project who was Josef Albers, a German-born American, who taught at the Bauhaus, which was a German design school at the forefront of Modernist design.
After the project was finished, I later chose to further develop the drawings and vector shapes I created into a real world font. This font can be downloaded here, a small donation the cost of a cheap coffee would also be massively appreciated.
View my other font project, Kurve SS, which explores creating letterforms from rounded shapes and its creation process.