Rarely is an article so explainatory as this one. The author writes (all below quoted): [...] > Thinking about the materiality of digital fonts lead to Brutal

Rarely is an article so explainatory as this one. The author writes (all below quoted): [...] > Thinking about the materiality of digital fonts lead to Brutalism. According to architectural historian and critic Michael Abrahamson, “the word ‘Brutalism’ has lost its meaning. At present, it equates to: large buildings, sometimes of concrete, constructed sometime between World War II and the end of the 1970s.”⁷ Abrahamson clarifies and re-orientates the meaning, quoting Peter Smithson: > > Brutalism is not concerned with the material as such but rather the quality of the material, that is with the question: what can it do? And by analogy: there is a way of handling gold in Brutalist manner and it does not mean rough and cheap, it means: what is its raw quality? > > My question now became, “what is the raw quality of digital fonts?” [...]