Typography Exploration
Typography studies exploring font pairing, hierarchy, and expression across digital and print. From display experiments to body text optimization, building type systems that work.
Personal & client work
Typography Designer
Ongoing personal practice
Solo
Font Curation
Built a curated library of 50+ typefaces across serif, sans-serif, slab, and display categories. Tested each for Khmer script support, web availability, and print rendering quality.
Pairing Studies
Explored 30+ font pairings, documenting the principles behind successful combinations: contrast in structure, harmony in proportions, and complementary x-heights. Created a pairing reference for client projects.
Hierarchy Systems
Designed modular type scales using the 1.25 and 1.333 ratios. Tested readability at 14px, 16px, and 18px body sizes across desktop and mobile. Documented line-height, letter-spacing, and paragraph spacing for each scale step.
Display Experiments
Created experimental typography pieces exploring expressive layouts: kinetic type, variable font animations, and editorial drop caps. Published 12 studies as a personal typography journal.
Khmer Script Support
Few high-quality fonts support Khmer. Tested 15 Khmer-compatible typefaces for rendering quality across browsers and operating systems, documenting fallback stacks for web projects.
Web Performance
Custom fonts impact load times. Developed a font loading strategy: preload critical weights, use font-display swap, and subset fonts to reduce file size by 60% without visible layout shift.
50+
Typefaces Tested
30+
Pairings Documented
2
Type Scale Ratios
12
Studies Published