Making Language Visible
STUDIO PROJECT • FALL 2021



Making Language Visible
is an expansive exploration and celebration of the humanist sans-serif typeface, Meta.  Designed by Erik Spiekermann in 1991, it was, as he described, intended to be a “complete antithesis of Helvetica”. 

The book showcases a range of typographic exercises completed during my semester-long Typography studio, including proper kerning and leading, letterform abstractions, and experiments with positive and negative space. The final chapter, titled “Sentences”, brings together these techniques in restrictive type-based layouts that demostrate a newly refined typographic sensibility.

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