Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface — The Gradient — Walker Art Center
▻http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2013/06/20/sang-mun-defiant-typeface-nsa-privacy
Over the course of a year, I researched and created ZXX, a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the Library of Congress’ listing of three-letter codes denoting which language a book is written in. Code “ZXX” is used when there is: “No linguistic content; Not applicable.” The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software
