Media: Senior Art Thesis Exhibition
Date: 05/2025
Language You Can See is a type design project that explores typography as a tool for cultural preservation and resistance. At the heart of the exhibition is a contemporary sans-serif typeface designed specifically for the Belarusian language—a language often silenced under Russian colonial politics and now increasingly criminalized in public life.
The project responds to the urgent need for modern, accessible typefaces for Belarusian, positioning typography as a form of visibility in both political and aesthetic terms. Drawing on the visual principles of Atkinson Hyperlegible—a font developed for people with low vision—the typeface combines functionality with cultural specificity. It aims not only to be legible, but to reflect the contemporary voice of a language at risk.
The project responds to the urgent need for modern, accessible typefaces for Belarusian, positioning typography as a form of visibility in both political and aesthetic terms. Drawing on the visual principles of Atkinson Hyperlegible—a font developed for people with low vision—the typeface combines functionality with cultural specificity. It aims not only to be legible, but to reflect the contemporary voice of a language at risk.
