Polypraxia

Polypraxia

Author: slanted-api

If the essence of the Contextual Alternates feature is to provide two or more different glyphs for the same character, just how different might they be? Prompted by the death of Jamie Reid and informed by his ransom note typography for the Sex Pistols, Polypraxia is a single font design that mixes four full typefaces to create a similar kind of pseudo-random effect. Dozens of genres could well have been represented, but this is an invention of keenly structured disfluency, with just the four.

Polypraxia