— ARCHIVE — typography | PREDIPLOMA Project — hybrid typeface as a typographic portrait based on personal preferences || AS PART OF THE PRE-DIPLOMA AT THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS STUTTGART, THE PROJECT “DEPICTING A PERSON” LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TYPEFACE IN COLLABORATION WITH GERWIN SCHMIDT. BASED ON A SELECTION PROCESS, LENN WAS ASKED TO IDENTIFY THREE FAVORITE TYPEFACES FROM AN EXISTING COLLECTION — GARAMOND, GILL SANS, AND EGYPTIENNE. THE RESULTING TYPEFACE, “LENN,” IS A CONSTRUCTED HYBRID OF THESE REFERENCES. THROUGH MANUAL REDRAWING, OVERLAPPING, SUBTRACTION AND ADDITION OF FORMS, THE LETTERS WERE SYSTEMATICALLY TRANSFORMED INTO A NEW, SYNTHETIC VARIANT — A TYPOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT THAT TRANSLATES PERSONAL PREFERENCE INTO FORM.