Wim Crouwel’s “New Alphabet”
Wim Crouwel’s “New Alphabet” typeface seems a good place to start. Designed for the limitations of technology at the time when CRT displays weren’t advanced enough to render the detail in letterforms. Crouwel embraced this and drew a typeface with only horizontal and vertical strokes. Because it was designed for a computer, Crouwel also imagined the letters would morph, a simple code would affect the proportions and thickness of the typeface. More on this later…





