Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts

“We design type for ourselves and how we want to use it,” says Thierry, who notes that their typefaces usually take two to three years to develop. “We are blissfully unaware of trends, and we rarely try to copy historical sources. We try to find a conceptual frame that’s interesting to us.”

Note to self: beautiful things require time.

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