HERE – A world poem by Tishani Doshi
Description
TYPOTHEQUE stands out with their commitment to experimental, contemporary type design design and to wide language support. They work with linguists, native speakers and indigenous communities around the world for research and type design.
To emphasise their efforts we proposed a specimen that shows every writing system with equal importance, one font family per page, per script.
We commissioned a "World Poem” from Tishani Doshi, a writer from Tamil Nadu. Tishani wrote about the hopes that unite us, the fears that divide us, and the global challenges we can only tackle together. Each word of the poem was translated by a global community into the hundreds of languages Typotheque’s typefaces support, highlighting their internationalisation efforts.
The programmatically generated, 560-page book is printed in 35 permutations of 12 pantone colors and finished with holographic foil blocking.
