As single letters are the smallest elements of communication, so is their shape, as the smallest carrier of a meaning beyond the direct significance of the word they compose.
In its constituting structure, artificial Intelligence allows us to distillate their historical and formal development forms, recognise their evolution patterns and tendencies by giving us a look into potential future consequences.
Still, these technologies are in their infant state and thus, it is up to the humans to curate the results, in order to discern noises in the “intention” patterns of the machine, dig away at the “dirt,” and reveal the true shape of the artefact. The project “Archeology of Consequent Forms” tries to understand this relationship and how AI models could become part of the type design discipline.