Redaction 50
Designed By
Jeremy Mickel, Forest Young
3 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Redaction 50 · Regular
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Exhibit A, page 14 of 30
A Page In Redaction 50
Redaction 50 · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
3 Styles,
One Family
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Regular400
Exhibit A, page 14 of 30
Italic400
Exhibit A, page 14 of 30
Bold700
Exhibit A, page 14 of 30
The damage in this grade comes from fax machines and photocopiers. When MCKL and Forest Young worked out how Redaction should decay, they gathered legal documents that had been sent and copied until the letters went bitmapped and bloated, and grade 50 sits in the middle of that slide, after 10, 20 and 35 and before 70 and 100.
Underneath it is the same serif as every grade. Jeremy Mickel’s first aim was a face that held 2 legal standards at once, Times New Roman, the habit of most American court papers, and New Century Schoolbook, which the Supreme Court requires. The artists Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts commissioned it for The Redaction at MoMA PS1.
What makes the decay look digital? Negative shapes cut into the letters, a pixel-style detail, a square dot on the i and a square period. The essay on MCKL’s site calls the method an inktrap logic, the same notches a type designer would cut to keep ink from clogging a joint, used here to mimic damage.
Regular, Italic and Bold, with no bold italic. 346 characters, Latin with most European accents.
At this grade we would stop setting paragraphs and keep to display sizes, a poster headline or a cover. Small, the damage stops reading as a choice.
Characters & Figures
346 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 343 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Redaction 50
3 OTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 37 KB ↓- Version
- 2.001
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Use On A Website
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<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/redaction-50/redaction-50.css">
body {
font-family: 'Redaction 50', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Redaction 50 Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.