Helvetica Haneue, (pronounced "Hanoi"), combines modernism, digital evolution, and the Vietnam War.
In 1966 Jeremiah Denton, an American POW, was brought before news cameras by his captors and told to condemn the US war effort. During the forced interview Denton repeatedly blinked the word TORTURE in Morse Code to secretly confirm the mistreatment of POWs by the North Vietnamese. In 2004 candid photographs of tortured Iraqi prisoners confirmed the mistreatment of Iraqi POWs by American troops.
Helvetica Haneue acknowledges the masked suffering of the largely censored Iraq war, and all wars, by reprising the ingenuity and resolve of POW Jeremiah Denton. Each character is composed of discrete vertical lines, like prison bars, which read horizontally as short and long. In this way the vertical lines become Morse Code, repeatedly spelling the word TORTURE.
Helvetica Haneue acknowledges the masked suffering of the largely censored Iraq war, and all wars, by reprising the ingenuity and resolve of POW Jeremiah Denton. Each character is composed of discrete vertical lines, like prison bars, which read horizontally as short and long. In this way the vertical lines become Morse Code, repeatedly spelling the word TORTURE.
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Evolving beyond bold and italic.
Helvetica Haneue was designed at ORG for Constructs, a Yale School of Architecture periodical. Haneue is part of a series of typefaces based on Paul Elliman's Helvetica Neue R. The series uses programatic means to develop new font flavors beyond bold or italic. See also stewdio.org/ascii.