In 1967 Crouwel stripped the alphabet down to what a cathode-ray tube could actually draw. It was never meant to be used — it was an argument about what technology was doing to letterforms.
03 / Discover — Designer08 SEPTEMBER 2026
Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet
A typeface designed for machines that humans could barely read.
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