Digital Degradation

Fonts are both meant to be seen and not seen. Type has visibility written into its core. So why would you want to mess with that? Normally types are designed to handle the medium in which they are intended to be deployed, but what if you flipped that script and had the medium affect the design? That’s what these types have been doing, embracing analog production models or theories on visibility to explore a new aesthetic we call Digital Degradation — fonts designed to appear, dissappear, and everything in between.

---

Redaction

Details:

Foundry: MCKL Type
Designed by: Jeremy Mickel
Release Date: 2020

Family: 21 Fonts — Regular, Bold, and Regular Italic weights, each with 7 levels of pixelated degradation
Price: Free Download

PDF Specimen: - -
Try & Buy: ☞

---

Exposure

Details:

Foundry: 205TF
Designed by: Frederico Parra Barrios
Release Date: Week 14, 2022

Family: 42 Fonts — 20 levels of degradation for both roman and italic styles. 2 Variable Fonts
Price: 120 EUR per 2 font bundle, 700 EUR for the full collection.

PDF Specimen: ☞
Try & Buy: ☞

---

Ehrie

Details:

Foundry: Blast Foundry, published on Future Fonts
Designed by: Rafał Buchner
Release Date: April 15, 2021

Family: 2 Fonts — Solid & Shaded styles. 1 Variable Font for full degradation effect.
Price: 25 EUR per font, 50 EUR for the family.

PDF Specimen: ☞
Try & Buy: ☞

---

Know of any other fonts or typefaces that are popping up in this bubble?
Send your suggestion our way on Twitter!

---