Emerson began as a revival typeface (originally named Wordsworthian) for my first term project at Type@Cooper. Its source material is a collection of poems from Wordsworth originally printed in 1936. The original task of the project was to create a typeface that could recreate the texture and feeling of the original source material, rather than mechanically trace the letterforms. The point being to discover that while type is something that is mechanical and requires technical skills to create it, the great excitement in making it (in my view anyway) is to find how to marry these technical skills with the subjective, to capture a feeling.
Currently I am exploring different possibilities to make this more usable for the 21st century, exploring ultra heavy weights and a seperate display axis.