Wallace

2016

5.5" × 8.5"

16-weight typeface

filed in: 2016 Type Typeface

Wallace is a 16-style typeface named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist who despite being largely unknown to the wider public, had independently arrived at the theory of evolution and whose work prompted Darwin to publish his book On the Origin of Species.

Wallace begins with a standard serif typeface and undergoes various treatments—cutting serifs off, chopping the glyphs into pieces, flipping glyphs upside down, etc.—to develop new styles.

a photo of various scraps of paper and cut-outs of the typeface Wallace. There is a brush pen, and a booklet with the words "Wallace" on it.