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Empowering ligatures, situated contextual alternates and other fabulous characters’s relational hacks
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❥ made with ⚧ layout machine https://speakingvolumes.space/layout
Zooming in and out changes your perspective. What else can inform the way to look and decide? How is your gaze situated?
No straight crops for braver cuts!
Gradients as soft transitions…
Emo-critical punctuation project started with Juliana Vargas Zapata and Lara Dautun:
Punctuation heart, for mixed feelings…
Exclamation heart, for more love in your texts!
Stay with the itch (⋱ “Staying with the Trouble” — Donna Haraway)
Honor your chosen type and design families, mixed, blended, diverse, complex. If not families, how can we think about the coexistence of design elements in a project? Cohabitants? Companions?
Badass libre fonts by womxn and other fabulous beings, shared under Free, Libre and Open Source licenses, which allow co-conspirators to use them, modify their design, contribute more glyphs or styles to their non-nuclear families, build upon them and redistribute them further. More badass fonts here
“Reviving Ange Degheest” by Ange Degheest👻, Eugénie Bidaut, Oriane Charvieux, Mandy Elbé, Luna Delabre, Camille Depalle, Justine Herbel, May Jolivet and Benjamin Gomez, is a sort of resurrection of the memory of Ange Degheest and other forgotten women in the field of type design before the 1980s, bearing witness to the technical upheavals in printing and telecommunications in the second half of the 20th century.
Authentic Sans by Christina Janus and Desmond Wong is a typeface intended for situations where Oriya Sangam MN seems too sophisticated and LiHei Pro too vulgar, or vice versa. Authentic Sans explores the semiotic and aesthetic idiosyncrasies of the anonymous Latin glyphs included with CJK system fonts; the typeface aims to subvert the Eurocentric standards of typographic quality and refinement.
Bye Bye Binary (BBB) is a collective working on the design of post (gender) binary fonts, using for instance ligatures and contextual alternates instead of more binary systems. Read more about Bye Bye Binary here
Design makes me sweat (⋱ “Water Makes Us Wet” — Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle + “sweaty concepts” — Sara Ahmed ⋱ Petra Van Brabandt)
Trigger Warning
Burning Love Warning
A thought bubble from the invitation card of the artists’ books exhibition “Speaking Volumes” at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York in 1980… Speaking Volumes became a whole research project, which this layout tool is part of.
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