Typography as civic space

Typographic systems create spaces for participation and belonging; as distinct from other types of experience cultivated by or through ‘design’.

Typography doesn’t just mediate between people, but creates spaces for ideas and people to coexist (and correspond).

Typography works as a site of encounter between multiple participants, readers, texts and contexts across time and space.

Typography is able to represent and project (can be contained by Flusser’s conception of typography); where typographic forms and systems function as presences in themselves’ that represent lived experience while functionally being separate from the concrete reality’. (Zuluga)

Typography creates fields of possibilities’ (Zuluga) — but does this register in our experiences of reading or consuming typographic design?


Date
March 26, 2025