Mess
Velvetyne · Tezzo Suzuki · 2020
displayconceptual brutalist display
A brutalist display face framed as a quiet critique of the type foundry as an opaque corporation.
About
Mess sets out its own politics before its letterforms: the specimen frames a font as something like a corporation, hard to see into from outside. Tezzo Suzuki built the single Light weight around that idea, pairing raw brutalist shapes with politically charged specimen text rather than a neutral showcase.
Classification
Framed by the designer as a critique of type foundries as opaque corporations. The specimen leans on politically charged text rather than a conventional character showcase.
Weights
Light
Languages
Latin
Tags
displaybrutalistconceptualpoliticalsymbols