‘Mekania’ is an eccentric display font designed with six key themes: black letter, bio-mechanic, futuristic, heavy metal, industrial and Native American. The process of designing the typeface involved through research and visual audit for these thematic concepts. Sketching designs from black letter specimen books, visual artist H. R. Giger’s works and many other cultural artifacts helped formulating the eerie and otherworldly aesthetics for ‘Mekania’. Engaging in this project was experimental in a sense that I intended to combine various aesthetics in a single typeface. The reoccurring angular strokes resemble that of the medieval black letters, organic shapes within the letter forms remind the eeriness of Giger’s art, and those shapes in the rigid shapes might project the imaginary heavy metal tribe from the future into its viewer’s mind.
