Unfinished — Type System

ILG-14

Type System

Selected Work • 2026

Unfinished

A living alphabet without an ending.

(01)

(Overview)

© 2026

Client

Meridian Archive

Role

Design Direction, Type

Deliverables

Typeface, Identity, Guidelines

Year

2026

(02)

(Process)

© 2026

A typeface is usually a finished thing — drawn, kerned, shipped. Unfinished asks what happens when it never is. Built as a living type system, every glyph carries variable terminals that keep resolving into new forms, so the alphabet you set today is not quite the alphabet you set tomorrow.

A system that keeps drawing itself

We designed the master skeletons and the rules of change, then let the system negotiate the rest. The result is an identity face for institutions that think of themselves as works in progress — archives, schools, cities.

Meridian Archive — detail

(03)

(Results)

© 2026

380+

Glyphs drawn

06

Weights shipped

“They gave our collection an alphabet that grows the way the archive does.”

E. Laurent / Meridian Archive

Meridian Archive — detail
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