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Not that McNeil or Muir lose much sleep worrying about the opinions of their peers. They revel in the simplicity and beauty of type derived from maths, where the placing in a grid of marks that can be read as letters is determined by numerical variables within a set of strict rules.

‘These number sequences have incredibly different qualities,’ says Muir. ‘The visual outcomes to sequences in multiples of eight are very different to those in multiples of seven; they govern the form in an interesting way … allowing accidents to be part of it.’

McNeil applies another metaphor: ‘We’re following pheromone trails, the way ants do.

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We are trying to establish sets of conditions and then to play them out.’

However Muir are McNeil are not content to leave their work in a typographic Petri dish. Aesthetic judgement, plus their sense of what works, quickly enters their mode of production.

Their typefaces have a robustness that belies their experimental origins.

The pair began working