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Animation: Thibault de Fournas - twitter.com/TdeFournas / Christopher Wilson - vanwilson.co.uk/
Screenplay: Peter Bilak - twitter.com/typotheque
Voiceover: Harvey Gold
Music: Nicolas Jaar
Karloff explores the idea how two extremes could be combined into a coherent whole. Karloff connects the high contrast Modern type of Bodoni and Didot with the monstrous Italians. The difference between the attractive and repulsive forms lies in a single design parameter, the contrast between the thick and the thin.
typotheque.com/blog/beauty_and_ugliness