If the typography's only task were to produce legible letters, there would have been no reason to have thousands and thousands of fonts available. We could have been satisfied with some "update" - due to technological evolutions - of the models that the very first character designers designed after the invention of printing. Typography is also the formalization of a particular way of seeing the world, the roots of a company, its aspirations, and the spirit of the time. From gothic to grotesque, from modernist rationalism to the needs of reading on the screen, today we have an almost infinite series of fonts and nearly as many shades of "flavor" that we can choose to communicate a message. However, if we try to imagine the near future, given the current scenarios - global warming, climate catastrophe, accelerationism, big data, post-truth, memification of politics, artificial intelligences - it is difficult to imagine characters capable of embodying a complexity that already escapes the understanding of most of us.
Anthropocene Working Type: illegible characters for complex scenarios
AWT will shows typefaces as a tool to imagine different sci-fi scenarios. Fonts that doesn't try to reduce any complexity. The forms are stressed and deformed under the attempt to deal with contradictions and noise and fake news and aliens and superstimuli and mutations and accelerationism and capitalism and apocalipse and consume and xenofeminism and future.
Anthropocene Working Type: illegible characters for complex scenarios
