TYPE DESIGN

Yannick de Kalbermatten – Verso

by Yannick de Kalbermatten

Verso is a typeface family composed of three upright styles: Left, Right, and Ambidextal, and a slanted axis ranging from backslanted to slanted. The project comes from a study of left-handed writing practices and how they adapt to systems designed for right-handed use. This often results in unusual writing positions, with shifts in wrist angle, page rotation, and overall gesture. Informed by a survey of around fifty participants, including twenty-one left-handed writers, Verso highlights recurring strategies such as inverted stroke directions and adjusted writing postures. Rather than opposing left- and right-handed writing, Verso builds a continuous space between them where gesture, direction, and form shift within a single family.