Type Design & Typography / Concept Design
Lispector (2025) is a grid-based, modular, and monospaced typeface created with the counsel of Hamish Muir of MuirMcNeil. It is named after Clarice Lispector, the author of the short story "Água Viva," in which the narrator treats time as non-linear and discontinuous, conveying the temporal dissolution that we cognitively experience in the present moment. My goal was to create a typeface that also reflected the fluidity of time by drawing from influences across various time periods, much like our own subjective perceptions of time. The design incorporates the slanted angles of calligraphy, the geometric primitives of the Bauhaus, the moiré patterns of OpArt, the uniformity of mechanical typewriting, the pixelation of early computing, and the idiosyncrasies of letterform terminals found in untrained sign painting, all of which are blended and reinterpreted for modern purposes. The result is a versatile and variable typeface that is both old and new, shifting in temperament as it becomes bolder.