Tourette

Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus McCallion, 2005.

An aptly-named typeface, Tourette is a worthy psychological case study. If the best faces have personality, Tourette boasts two: one that demurely displays its content with silver-tongued eloquence, and another that can’t help but interject its own exclamations and exhortations. Tourette Normal is a sweetly understated slab serif, while Extreme frenetically flaunts unexpected flourishes and embellishments — off its medication, if you will. And its extensive set of diacritics and ligatures? Each one is more fiendishly manic than the one before.

Published in Print magazine’s column Hot Type.