Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface

http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2013/06/20/sang-mun-defiant-typeface-nsa-privacy/

by enen • 13 years ago

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How does this relate to text on the internet? Surely most text fed into big data systems is digital, so representation is a non-issue. If this is only to prevent optical-character recognition, can someone explain to me scenarios where such a typeface would be useful? For protest signs maybe?

supbeach• 13 years ago

You would post texts as images.

DanBC• 13 years ago

I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker)

It's pretty much unreadable to me too, so I'm not sure of the benefits.

I'm waiting for one of these fonts to use the Rapidshare cats.

The only useful version of these fonts are the oldschool "anti - tempest" fonts - fonts to help protect against van eck freaking. And even these were dubious.

Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface

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