Empathy in Typography
Typeface design | Newspaper

Created
April 2025

This piece was created to demonstrate empathetic type in use to convey sensitive, sad, or hard to read information, and answer the question: can typography aid the designer in conveying sad or disappointing news in a more gentle or approachable way? The typeface used was designed based off information gathered in a survey that aimed to pin specific traits to empathy in type. 

Type Specimen

The typeface features somewhat thin stems, an average to large amount of stress, ball serifs, rounded bowls with nothing leaning towards being square, and blunt spurs to avoid sharp points.

Full alphabet, numbers, and punctuation

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