Akzidenz: Clarify the direction

As I am doing quite a bit of experimentation with dissecting the typography I wanted to take a minute to think about the direction that I am heading in. At the moment I have various visual variations of Akzidenz minimal, trying to come up with a rule/ set of rules that I can apply across the range of letters. Looking at other typefaces, most typefaces come within a font family such as Univers which was created by Adrian Frutiger. Univers like many other comes in various weights, widths and positions such as light, light oblique all the way through to black extended. 

Having a mini crit with Ben bouncing around ideas, one of the ideas was to use and develop a series of the variations to create a font family, similar to conventional font families but maybe add my own spin on it.

As the typeface is going to be called Akzidenz minimal it could be the various was in which to increase or decrease how minimal the letter forms are. 

As I have done a variation of different ideas deconstructing the letter forms up until now the process hasn't had a particular rigid rule or structure that I could apply to the different letters. I have started to look into using a grid an potentially using various modules within the grid to apply a constraint for me to apply to. The grid I am starting with is measured from the width of each letter by the base line to the cap height.

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