Protoform

• Type specimen poster
• 2025 
• digital stencil print
• 420 x 594 mm

This poster showcases Protoform, a typeface we made while exploring the origins of unsquared Hangeul. We used common English and Korean pangrams and found that both feature animals: a fox and a dog in the English sentence, and a squirrel in the Korean one. We have yet to find out what this means.

• Project type:
• poster

• Typeset in:
• Protoform

• Printed by:
• Corners

• Commissioned by:
• Li Zhongkai
• Mary Y. Yang

• Exhibited as part of:
• Tone in Tongues (Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles / Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute / Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 2025)