The Erased
Award: Shortlist
Shortlist / Typography / Digital / 2024
The Erased: the font making news censorship visible.
The Erased Font is specifically designed to make censorship visible by erasing one word for each journalist who has been imprisoned. The font uses "ligatures", a traditional feature in typography, in a creative way to automatically censor words when the font is selected. Each erased word is connected to an imprisoned journalist and represents the topics they reported on. By using the open-source platform GitHub, we made it easy for global news organizations to use the Erased font on their websites.