About UT Phanomen

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Kerning and expanded set of glyphs/ stylistic ligatures, non-lining numerals. 

UT Phänomen is a typeface whose horizontal contrast pursues a postdigital aesthetics lodged in the formal residues of the moment computation first demanded something of the letter.

That demand has a precise institutional address. In the mid-1950s, the Stanford Research Institute and the General Electric Computer Laboratory produced E-13B for the automated processing of bank cheques: fourteen characters on a 0.013-inch grid, each form engineered to generate an unambiguous magnetic waveform — thick concentrations of ink performing, in a single stroke, the work of two readers: the human clerk, the magnetic scanner. Centuries of calligraphic weight distribution persist inside it, absorbed into the logic of signal differentiation.
The Phänomenologie des Geistes names what the magnetic character enacts: a shape carrying, in its ink mass, the apparatus of postwar financial clearing, returning to type design as compacted history. Broad nib, waveform, phenomenon — the same pressure, differently received.

UT Phänomen was published 250 years after Hegel's birth.

Designers:

Marcus Leis Allion.

Year: 2020

Formats: OTF, WOFF2

Tagged with: <High Contrast> <Reversed Contrast> <Display>

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