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Mess

Velvetyne · Tezzo Suzuki · 2020

displayconceptual brutalist display
Mess specimen from Velvetyne

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

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