Gendered Typography

Letters have arms and legs; they even have spines and eyes. Proportion, scale, contrast, and weight all inform descriptors of types – as well as human anatomy. Humans associate qualities of “delicate and lights” as feminine, “strong and bold” as masculine. These qualities in design and typography is historically and culturally loaded. The typographic ancestry of masculine and feminine traces a bloodline to human anatomy makeup. Socially and culturally, typography speaks volumes. There is a direct link between male and female human anatomy and typography. So what if typefaces were human?

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