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Ugly Gerry Alphabet: Gerrymandered District Shapes Made into Free Font

Gerrymandered districts are perhaps the most visible forms of political corruption, dramatically redrawn into implausible shapes to benefit one political part or another. The idea for this font ...

Musical Fonts: Handwriting of Cobain, Lennon & Bowie Turned into Free Typefaces

Resurrecting the signature writing styles of famous musicians and songwriters, this series of downloadable typefaces puts the unique scrawls of performers passed in the palm of your hand(-held ...

Deciphering Logos: Graphic Designer Swaps Brand Names for Fonts Used

Pop quiz: can you identify these iconic companies by their typefaces alone? Italian graphic designer Emanuele Abrate decided to run an experiment of sorts and trade names for fonts. In his ...

Touchable Typeface: Ingenious Fonts Combine Visual & Braille Characters

Braille type is often included as alongside conventional letters, but "Braille Neue" typesets blend both visible and tangible characters in the same space, creating hybrid alphabets that anyone ...

Pissjar Sans: Hardcore Punk Bank Releases Free Urination-Based Typeface

What started as a project to create a few letters for an album cover morphed into an entire alphabet derived from the collective contributions of this Swedish punk band. Bassist Anton ...

Legible Graffiti: Repainting Street Art for Digital-Age Audiences

Artist Mathieu Tremblin has hit the streets again, expanding on his portfolio of repainted tags, turning messy walls into neat and readable 'tag cloud' arrays. His past works have ...

Dyslexic Designer Creates Custom Typeface Addressing Disorder

Designed to address the visual processing problems associated with dyslexia, this font uses a set of tailored strategies to make reading easier for those with the disability. Christian ...

Self-Censoring Font Automatically Redacts Fed Watchlist Words

Simple called Seen, this font will frustrate you, redacting both expected and surprising things, as it checks what you type in realtime against a list of flagged words and phrases employed by ...

Cubicle Typography: Unique Desks as Office Furniture Font

One of the most dreary aspects of daily life in a cubical farm is the relentless sameness that pervades each office pod - perhaps it would help if each workspace were different, easy to assemble ...

Fonts to Faces: 9 Personality-Rich Typographies as Portraits

As humans, we are programmed to anthropomorphize our surroundings. So what would happen if the letters on pages conveyed meanings others than the words they represented ... say, actual (versus ...

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