When we talk about legibility, what should we say? Deconstructing legibility is a collaborative project composed with four chapter that explored, experimented, and played with the boundaries of typeface legibility.
Two typefaces has been used in this experiment, and each chapter can be understood as a move to decrease the leigibity.
Two typefaces has been used in this experiment, and each chapter can be understood as a move to decrease the leigibity.
CHAPTER 0: the typefaces
nopqrstuvwxyz
Mo&Vio Text Regular
designed by Mankun
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
designed by Mankun
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
CHAPTER 1: laser cut
Laser-cut is our first move to decrease legibility. Although the accuracy for laser cut absolutely stands out among other cutting methods, the high temperature of laser still causes burn and inaccurate contour of the typeface.
Laser-cut is our first move to decrease legibility. Although the accuracy for laser cut absolutely stands out among other cutting methods, the high temperature of laser still causes burn and inaccurate contour of the typeface.
CHAPTER 2: glass making
The second move is making the glass letterpress, due to the nature of hot glass, we attempt to stay with the tempreture-based fluidity of glass while run fast in order to let glass stay at it’s best tempreture. The best method is to glue a stick on laser-cut letters and press them in sand, spray syrup on sand and burn it in order to keep it solid (as the glass might change it’s shape), and pour hot glass in our model.
The second move is making the glass letterpress, due to the nature of hot glass, we attempt to stay with the tempreture-based fluidity of glass while run fast in order to let glass stay at it’s best tempreture. The best method is to glue a stick on laser-cut letters and press them in sand, spray syrup on sand and burn it in order to keep it solid (as the glass might change it’s shape), and pour hot glass in our model.
CHAPTER 3: letterpress ‘ing’
The third move was to test various materials that is reasonable for a printing process.The glass letterpress become our main tool to test on the last step of deconstructing legibility: printing.
The third move was to test various materials that is reasonable for a printing process.The glass letterpress become our main tool to test on the last step of deconstructing legibility: printing.
CHAPTER 4: visualizing deconstruction
The final step is to visualize our experiment. We decided to highlight the typeface's decreased legibility using four 'posters' that correspond to the four chapters. It's interesting to note that, despite the fact that we used two different typefaces, which can still be seen in the first poster, legibility begins to wane, leaving only the basic structures of each letter (san-serif!!!).
The final step is to visualize our experiment. We decided to highlight the typeface's decreased legibility using four 'posters' that correspond to the four chapters. It's interesting to note that, despite the fact that we used two different typefaces, which can still be seen in the first poster, legibility begins to wane, leaving only the basic structures of each letter (san-serif!!!).
chapter 0
typeface directly printing
on matte paper
typeface directly printing
on matte paper
chapter 1
laser-cut letters pressing
on foam board
laser-cut letters pressing
on foam board
chapter 2
glass letterpress on silk
(using letterpress dye)
glass letterpress on silk
(using letterpress dye)
chapter 3
glass letterpress on 300gsm cardstock paper (using ink)
glass letterpress on 300gsm cardstock paper (using ink)
