Typeface pioneer Craig Ward and experimental photographer Linden Gledhill have teamed up to design a new generative typeface of ornamental letterpress art-prints, called Fe2O3 Glyphs. The typeface will “invert the traditional role of a typeface” by not repeating the same design twice, and by not actually producing an alphabet. To make the state-of-the-art prints, dabs of the highly-magnetic substance ferrofluid were placed in between two glass plates, then “subjected to vertically and horizontally spinning magnetic fields,” according to the Kickstarter page.
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“The result is an array of complex hieroglyphics and shapes — each one as unrepeatable as a snowflake— that simultaneously call to mind ancient indigenous markings or symbols from science fiction.” The glyphs will be printed with a combination of the ferrofluid and pure Pantone black, and you can fund the project here.
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