In the design process, we tried out countless letter shapes and styles, only to find that most of them visualized the disaster right in the earliest stages of the transformation. That's something we wanted to avoid because unlike a global pandemic, climate change is a crisis that sneaks up on us.— Tuomas Jääskeläinen The default typeface represents the volume of Arctic sea ice in 1979 (when records began). It’s a rather beautiful, chiseled, chunky sans-serif, with cut-aways that open up counters to give it a modern appeal. As you move through the years towards 2050 the shapes appear to melt away, to the point that they’re barely legible.
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We hope that using the font helps people see the urgency of climate change in a more tangible form – it is a call for action.— Tuomas Jääskeläinen You can download the font for free, for personal or commercial work.
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Ben Moss
Ben Moss has designed and coded work for award-winning startups, and global names including IBM, UBS, and the FBI. When he’s not in front of a screen he’s probably out trail-running.
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