Swiss Punk Typography vs Talnemokkol (De-squared Hangul)
スイス・パンク・タイポグラフィ / 脱ネモ体
Swiss Punk Typography comes from Experimental Typography and Talnemokkol (De-squared Hangul) from Type Classification. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Swiss Punk Typography
In Basel, the home of Swiss style, Weingart took the grid apart from the inside. Exploded letterspacing, stepped settings and layered film exposures turned rebellion within discipline into New Wave typography.
Talnemokkol (De-squared Hangul)
Hangul type that gives up fitting each syllable into a square and stacks consonant and vowel as fixed shapes, so height and width change from letter to letter. Ahn Sang-soo's typeface and posters carried the form to a wide audience.
| Swiss Punk Typography | Talnemokkol (De-squared Hangul) | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1970s–1980s | 1980s- |
| Family | Experimental Typography | Type Classification |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | The grid dismantled / Exploding letterspacing / Stepped compositions / Layered-film textures | Letter outlines breaking out of the square / Height and width changing letter by letter / Strokes of even weight, geometric in build / Lines whose feet do not align |
| Best used for | Announcements for experimental music and art that show the discipline breaking · School and studio publications where the method itself is the subject | Headlines and titling where the assembly of Hangul itself is meant to show · Pages that step away from the default square setting to find another rhythm |
| Type | Letterspacing opened in steps, one word repeated at several sizes | Fix the shapes of consonant and vowel and leave the height and width changing from letter to letter |
| Composition | Keep the grid visible while stepping the lines, measuring every offset | Open the leading to absorb the uneven feet of the lines, and keep the measure short |
| Material | Layered exposures building halftone and reversal through the film | Assume large sizes, hold the stroke to one weight, and let the ragged outline show |
| Caution | Breaking a grid you never built leaves the offsets nothing to measure against, so the rebellion within discipline never happens and only mess remains. | At text size and over long passages, the uneven feet of the lines make them waver and reading slows. Keep it to headlines and other places where it is set large. |