Klenkens Typeface

Klenkens a type revival of the redrawn Kleukens Antiqua (Bauer, 1910), by 'Žaibas' (“Lightning”), a Lithuanian printing press in 1930. The name was changed by flipping the letter “u” from " Kleukens" to "Klenkens". The letterform chiseled wedgyness carries a slumpy “G” with a crane-like neck, an “r” with a claw-like terminal and an “A” shuffling inward facing serifed feet: all drawing closer the sinuous curves in nature. This counterfitting reformats the focus from a single-artist narrative to possible collective-descision making. Even if the original German matrix was imported into the Lithuanian foundry, it was not copied letter by letter, but redrawn, as most letters differ in design considerations.