Style combination · Pairs well

Out-of-Square Hangul Typography × Post-Binary Typography

Both redesign the structure of letters for a social idea: Ahn Sang-soo freed Hangul syllables from the square, post-binary type frees French word endings from the gender binary. Pair them when a project is about how a script could be otherwise.

From the research on Post-Binary Typography (Bye Bye Binary and Inclusive French Type)

Mix them and make something Out-of-Square Hangul Typography Post-Binary Typography

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography, their arrangement from Post-Binary Typography, the finish from Post-Binary Typography. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Out-of-Square Hangul Typography Post-Binary Typography (Bye Bye Binary and Inclusive French Type)

Type from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography: Experimental & distorted
Geometric sans
Colour from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography: Geometric primitives
Rectilinear
Composition from Post-Binary Typography: Classical text block
Collage & layering
Surface from Post-Binary Typography: Flat

The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Out-of-Square Hangul Typography

Riot

Syne; Out-of-Square Hangul Typography used Ahn Sang-soo typeface and Isang-che, Mir-che and Mano-che

Text · Post-Binary Typography

A Franco-Belgian type practice that redesigns written French for gender inclusion inside the word. Instead of the point médian, which the Académie française and the French state call a barrier to reading, new glyphs fuse masculine and feminine endings and ligatures or 'symbiotic' strokes join letters, so inclusive and non-binary words read as one form. Led since 2018 by the collective Bye Bye Binary, it forks open-source families under open licences and its own usage conditions (the CUTE), encodes them in a Queer Unicode Initiative and spreads them through workshops, banners and magazines.

Jost; Post-Binary Typography used BBB Baskervvol (Bye Bye Binary, from 2018), a post-binary fork of ANRT's Baskervville and BBB Poppins TN (Eugénie Bidaut and Camille Circlude, 2022), after Jonny Pinhorn's Poppins

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Out-of-Square Hangul Typography, with a counter-accent from Post-Binary Typography. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Out-of-Square Hangul Typography Post-Binary Typography (Bye Bye Binary and Inclusive French Type)

#f5f3ee ground · 36%
#111111 ink · 14%
#f2c12e accent · 18%
#d42a7f accent · 14%
#d7261e accent · 10%
#ee5d63 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f5f3ee;
  --ink: #111111;
  --accent-1: #f2c12e;
  --accent-2: #d42a7f;
  --accent-3: #d7261e;
  --accent-4: #ee5d63;
  --font-display: "Syne", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Jost", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Post-Binary Typography (Bye Bye Binary and Inclusive French Type): This is the living practice of a queer, trans and non-binary community and of named designers, most of them active: do not use the glyphs as decorative 'Pride' texture or for brand campaigns that ignore the people they were made for; follow the CUTE that comes with the fonts: credit and link the designers, keep the files complete, give on its sliding scale (€300 to €1,000 for a cultural institution) and respect its answer to companies that want an inclusive image to pinkwash: 'Look elsewhere'; and never attribute a generated poster or font to the collective or prompt an image model with its members' names. Image models invent fake ligatures and misspell French, so set real inclusive words in the actual fonts and have them checked by people who use them. Type the median-dot forms and let the OpenType features display the glyphs, rather than pasting QUNI's Private Use Area characters, which screen readers cannot voice meaningfully and which turn into blanks or wrong signs when copied or shown in another font. In France, inclusive writing with the point médian is proscribed in schools by circular (2021) and a Senate bill sought to ban it more widely (2023), so check before setting official French public documents this way.