A typeface family called Signifier: a brutalist reinterpretation of 17th-century serif forms; includes free tests, specimen pages, and purchase options.
Signifier is a Brutalist response to 17thcentury typefaces. Designed by Kris Sowersby, Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, Sowersby worked consciously with the computer to recast the lead, antimony, and tin of the 17thcentury Fell Types into ones and zeros. Signifier emerged from this alchemy with Bézier curves and sharp vectors determined by machine logic and a Brutalist ethos.Continue reading
