Michael Parson Michael Parson will present the work he has been conducting on his latest typeface. Koruption is the result of questions Parson had been considering about variable fonts. Rather than using this new technology to navigate with traditional features like weight, width, or slant, he wanted to explore how a regular typeface could be transformed into a decomposed, glitched version.
The single-weight Koruption offers a variable axis that plays between a regular, straight style and a more expressive, destroyed version. Since a glitch is by nature unpredictable, Parson decided to also play with substitutions by creating four different glyphs for each letter. This exercise created a certain unpredictability in the letterforms that further enhanced the overall effect.
As a brand designer often working closely with art directors and other type users with varied client dictates, Parson felt that this work into decaying forms was an approach that could resonate with creatives. Such customers could be drawn to higher-level typography toolkits if introduced to the possibilities of variable fonts in a very approachable way.