*OUT OF SORTS

DID YOU KNOW WE ARE 10 LETTERS OUT OF SORT?

During my last year at university we were asked to select a range of topics to base our final projects. One of the subjects I chose was extinction. originally I chose the extinction of animals but I quickly ran into a wall of how to visually communicate the disappearance of them. that is when I discovered there was 10 letter which disappeared from out alphabet.

Once I finishing conducting my research I had to re create these forgotten characters as some of them did not exist in the Baskerville typeface. To visually communicate the disappearance of these letter I made a poster with the extinct letter cut out, accompanied with an animation and tickets with a description of the letter and how it disappeared if the information was available.

This exhibition would be held at the Bodleian Library. I designed tickets which included a brief description on the name of the extinct letter, how it was used, who had made the letter and the reason why it had become extinct.

*Out of sorts is an old metal type term that indicates some characters are missing.