New Alphabet

typeface designed by Wim Crouwel

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Created: 1967
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Inspired by: seven-segment display
Rights: copyrighted
Inventory no.: 1072.2010
designed by: Wim Crouwel
instance of: sans-serif typeface
type foundry: The Foundry
writing system: Latin script

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New Alphabet is a parametric typeface designed by Wim Crouwel, released in 1967. It embraced the limitations of the display technology that it was displayed on by only using horizontal and vertical strokes. This meant that some of the letters had little resemblance to the letters they were supposed to represent. New Alphabet was notably used on the cover of Joy Division's 1988 compilation album Substance.

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Wim Crouwel