Glyphs: Corrupted
Concept
This project explored how text can be obscured, distorted, and visually censored when placed in uncontrolled systems. Using scraping and generative manipulation, I reworked language drawn from a larger experimental text system.
Process
The work examines how legibility breaks down under transformation, shifting between readable type and abstract visual form.
The text relates to an earlier system that scraped and auto-scrolled a large collaborative sentence dataset.
The aim was to create type that behaves like asemic writing — readable as form, but not as language. One key reference was “Zalgo” text and how it is often legible but with diacretics obscuring certain elements.
These explorations eventually moved into print outcomes, including a typographic book format.
