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2025-06-12 06:00:19From designer Anna Cairns, the workhorse monospace typeface is rooted in feminist theory.
Across CMM Coda’s subtly imperfect, analogue-inspired letterforms – based on the IBM Selectric typewriter’s typeface, Dual Basic – Anna practically and conceptually brings together the feminist legacy of software and typewriters with the aesthetic sensibilities of the genre associated with the industry. Additionally, CMM Coda enables Anna to explore her intrigue in the blurry terminology used in text production, such as typing, coding and writing, “especially now that most text is created digitally,” Anna says, with typefaces being software in their own right. “We also associate a certain look with each of these modalities,” she continues, “so my idea was to create a typeface that can jump all of these genres simply through a play with white space,” an approach that resulted in CMM Coda’s multiple styles.
Learn more about Comma at https://commatype.com/, a new foundry founded by the Berlin-based type designer Anna Cairns.
Continue reading at https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/comma-type-cmm-coda-graphic-design-project-110625
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