Desvarial.

[Place of publication not identified] : Laboratório Gráfico Desviante (Queer Graphic Laboratory), 2017.

1 online resource

"Queer Graphic Laboratory had four meetings, of nearly three hours each, to discuss and study problems around queerness and denormatization in both visual and written language. The matter of gender markers in Portuguese-and Latin languages as a whole-also presented itself, whether in the predominance of the use of masculine terms for plural constructions, or its presence that permeates all names. We discussed the limits of using "X" or "@" to replace linguistic gender designations, and how it might be possible, in the stiffness of our alphabet and lexicon, to subvert this issue. We began to question what a queer vowel would be like, coalescing "a", "e", and "o" to allow for an open indication of gender, but without affecting reading (unlike what happens with the usage of "x" and "@", that brake the text with discontinuities). We opted for subverting the popular Times New Roman and Arial fonts, instead of developing a new typographic family, to avoid simply reproducing a new rigid norm. A queer vowel was proposed and designed by Laura Daviña, through experiments with parts of characters taken from stencils: cut fragments of letters were manipulated in order to compose different combinations. The vowels' digital glyphs were then cut out following the same logic, and re-assembled in distinct ways. In the variations that produced the Cuir Roman Times font family, the glyphs of "a" and "e" are fragmented, and their parts are inverted and reorganized to form the degenerate vowels. They are open characters, and can be read as any of the original correspondents of "e", "a", and "o"-the usual gender markers in Portuguese."-- provided by distributor.

Graphic arts.
Graphic design (Typography)
Publishers and publishing.
Sexual minority culture.
Arts graphiques.
Culture des minorités sexuelles.

Software.

Ayerbe, Júlia, producer.
Carrapatoso, Thiago, producer.
Daviña, Laura, contributor.
Daviña, Laura, producer.
Hersan, Thiago, producer.
Luhmann, Daniel, producer.
Mendonça, Bruno, producer.
Morais, Fabio, producer.
Laboratório Gráfico Desviante (Queer Graphic Laboratory), producer.
Library Stack, distributor.
Library Stack.