Experiments with typography 1

At the start of year 2, my inquiry became specific to designing language to resist text based surveillance by OCRs aided by AI. In my initial explorations, I tried to create letterforms, on which I introduced confusion through different methods.

Few of the ways were by overlapping similar or different letterforms on top of one another, by adding new shapes and forms on top of letterforms, using noise and clutter to make readability harder, and also distort the forms of the letters as well, amongst other methods using the tools present inside Adobe Illustrator.

Few other ways I imagined were different ways of writing, I thought non linear ways of writing can serve the purpose of introducing confusion towards machine reading.

The use of imagery as a way of communicating through text is something I had also thought of as a possible way to create confusion, but it requires more exploration.