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A neo-grotesque that lets Art Brut in through the side door: disciplined and readable, with a restless streak of alternates.
About
Walla takes the structure of a modern grotesque and nudges it off balance, with small shifts in its bowls and a deep set of stylistic alternates drawn from the outsider artist August Walla. Seven weights with italics and a variable version keep it practical for text, while the alternates, rounded punctuation and symbol sets give headlines and identities something odder to work with.
Classification
A neo-grotesque in the line of the nineteenth-century grotesques and their modernist refinements, deliberately unsettled: lobes on letters such as p and q shift off the expected geometry, and a large set of alternates, rounded punctuation and 'pulsion' sets adds the marks and detours of August Walla's Art Brut work.