Fabric Type is a lettering study developed as a Research Assistant at Hexagram Concordia for Associate Professor PK Langshaw. Created as part of Transitional Algorithms of Gesture in Montreal, 2008–2009, the project stages a deliberate paradox between print history and computational drawing. The letterforms carry the visual language of etching, built from dense linework that reads like cross-hatching, plate tone, and bitten edges. At a distance, the marks feel tactile and hand-wrought, as if pulled from a copper plate rather than drawn on a screen.

At the same time, the structure of the letters suggests computation. The strokes behave like interpolated vectors, where a single gesture is sampled, repeated, and gradually transformed into a character. This tension is the core of the work: typography that looks archival and handcrafted, yet is constructed through the logic of digital interpolation, making the hand feel present while the method remains algorithmic.