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Not Your Type · Xiaoyuan Gao and workshop participants · 2024
A collaborative experiment in which workshop participants drew letters freely, with the results vectorised into two font files including a colour COLR variant.
About
Born from a workshop at ClubSolo where participants drew letters without technique instruction or rules, the typeface was vectorised by Xiaoyuan Gao into two styles: notRegular and a COLR colour version. The glyph set covers basic Latin uppercase, lowercase, numerals and punctuation only, with English as the sole supported language. Released under a restricted free licence, it suits personal, educational and small commercial work where raw, unpolished energy is the point.
Classification
Derived from unguided collective letter-drawing, the forms are irregular and expressive with no consistent structural logic, placing it firmly in display and experimental territory.