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I believe the next innovation in typography isn’t another typeface. It’s a different idea of what a typeface can be. As fonts become part of subscription libraries, variable systems, and generative technologies, the medium itself has changed. My practice explores typography after the individual font: designing systems where one skeleton can generate infinite forms, where alphabets become interchangeable bodies of gestures, and where the typeface is no longer a static object but a living library. Rather than selling a single alphabet, I design the conditions from which many alphabets can emerge.

Read more in my essays The Library Is Opentype and From Typocene to Fontopoly

Michiel Terpelle. Unbubble Typeface. 2024. Specimen. –.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Michiel Terpelle. Unbubble Typeface. 2024. Specimen. –.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Michiel Terpelle. Unbubble Typeface. 2024. Specimen. –.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Michiel Terpelle. Unbubble Typeface. 2024. Specimen. –.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Michiel Terpelle. Unbubble Typeface. 2024. Specimen. –.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Michiel Terpelle. Slut Era Typeface. 2023. Specimen. –.

Michiel Terpelle. Willemina Typeface. –. Specimen. –.

Jizz Taco (Michiel Terpelle). Sticky Sans Typeface. 2024. Sticky Notes. 3×3 in.

Michiel Terpelle. New Pornographie Typeface. –. Specimen. –.

Michiel Terpelle. ArtEZ Honours Lab Typeface. 2022. Specimen. –.

Michiel Terpelle. – Typeface. –. Specimen. –.

Michiel Terpelle. Restvetica Typeface. –. Specimen. –.

Michiel Terpelle. Hellfaggotta and Gay Times Typeface. 2022. Specimen / Poster. A3.

Michiel Terpelle. — ˁ ˅ ˄ ˯ ˰ ͵ ⸝ ⸜ ⸍ ˡ ʿ ʾ ˓ ˕ ˳.otf. Specimen.

Michiel Terpelle. I am a portal, so are you. Specimen.

Michiel Terpelle. Outline. Specimen.

Michiel Terpelle. Lettering. Specimen.

Michiel Terpelle. Autocorrect + Grep. 2017. Specimen. Action.