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The idea for this font came out of thinking about communication and how it is affected by fears about security in this digital, modern civilian world. Words and type are used to communicate messages to an audience or readership, but when fear of the ‘other’ mounts, it is necessary to communicate secretly, to limit the audience, the readership, to shut out or get around the ‘other’. The ‘other’ stands for the real or supposed cause of fear. The medium therefore is changed into codes. Scrambled or altered messages, encryption and secret languages become the mode of graphic communication in times of security alerts and silent wars. The font has been created by recording the audible (analogue) alphabet from Morse code signals, and saving them as .RAW sound files. These files were then imported directly into Photoshop. This translated the information from the audio files into images by the computer. As a result, this has changed the once analogue Morse code into a visual, scrambled digital format, and made an encrypted code.
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