I was fascinated by the weird “a” in 40pt — the big squoosh stomach and narrow counter; also “u” and “n” in 28pt — the strong contract between the flat and curved strokes. I want to resolve these best details from the original into a more contemporary Grotesk: systematic, useful, yet also joyful.

I started with lowercase letters based on 28 pt, which has a tight rhythm. For the uppercase, to keep a bit of old-fashioned taste, I add the weight and spacing. Due to the lack of the original resource, I drew all the punctuations and tabular numbers matching the system. So far, I was trying to make this typeface to be easier to read as body-text as well as display.