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This text is interrupted with a geometric grid sequence, which fragments the basic text, thus resulting a moving effect, something that resembles to the surface of the sea. Results are typographic experiment of waving text line fragments.

085——Teeline Fonts——USA——PLENAIRE SLOPPY

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Up close its daubs appear chaotic and illegible, but at a distance its shapes resolve into elegant and readable italic letters, like the wondrous brushstrokes of Claude Monet or Georges Seurat. Plenaire Sloppy shows this variable font at its most scattered extreme, taking legibility to the brink.

Effectively communicates the message

Difficult

CLEAR AS A BELL, CLEAN AS A WHISTLE

Distorted

Distinct, sharp, coherent, well defined unreadable

NO ISSUES WITH LEGIBILITY WHATSOEVER VAGUE shapes coming together to make letters

Plenaire Sloppy, a typeface from Teeline Fonts

This work epitomizes the goal of the writer in attempting to expose language as a system built on rigid binaries and oppositions, where capturing true meaning becomes impossible—as soon as a word is uttered, it becomes lost in a world of differing significations. This series is an homage to Cortázar, and an exploration of those same ideas in the visual world.

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