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Typeface meaning in design1/8/2024 ![]() More than just a literal translation of stammered speech – which by no doubt is a hard topic to materialise – it’s also an interpretation of it, pulled from the founder’s own experiences as well as through conversations with those featured in the magazine. “It is a massively personal experience as stammering can differ from person to person.” “A lot of the stammering experience is owed to feelings of shame, guilt and embarrassment,” says Conner. As mentioned, the font features signature stretches and repeating turns, used to evoke the definition of a stammer or stutter – that which is neurological yet presents itself as something that’s physical to those non-stammering. This personal quest to dive deep into the visual tones of his stammer led to the creation of its very own typeface, one that “emulates the voice of the speaker”. “I’ve become much more open abut my speech it’s allowed me to rethink how many stammer defines me, if at all.” “Rendering my own name in a way I ‘recognised’ helped me to stop fearing it, as so many people who stammer can find it tricky to say their own name.” Conor still finds himself stammering, “of course,” but the process of making Dysfluent alleviated a lot of the judgement associated with it. “Visually representing my stammer by repeated or stretching the letters seemed defiant at the time, almost as if I had given the middle finger to these words and letters that cased me so much grief for so many years,” he tells It’s Nice That. This idea to represent his stammer in a visual language formed the basis of the project, where topics of stammering pride and acceptance proved just how much disfluency needn’t be stigmatised in wider parts of society. A form of self-therapy, as Conor puts it, as for the first time he began investigating his speech.Ĭonor has always shown an interest in typography and the ways in which sound is visualised through design, two elements that spearheaded the creation for Dysfluent – a name that’s similar to the term disfluency, meaning the disruption in the ongoing flow of speech. What initially started as a university project “in that typical university attempt to work on something personal and unique” soon turned into a remedial outlet. “We’re actually a couple and our collaboration for Dysfluent was borne out of that,” Conor says, noting how his own personal experiences on the topic of stutters plus Bart’s affinity for printed matter drove the process. Bart is a graphic design graduate from Camberwell College of Arts and a freelance project manager. After studying visual communication in NCAD, Dublin and moving to London two years ago, he began working as a junior designer at 4Creative. Providing a platform for people to share honest stories about their experiences with it – whether they’re “awkward, funny, infuriating or heart-warming,” says editor Conor – the debut issue was an immensely personal endeavour that soon evolved into a bespoke typeface named Dysfluent Mono.Ĭonor has stammered his entire life. Last year, Conor Foran and Bart Rzeznik launched Dysfluent, an independent magazine about stammers. ![]()
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