Art Director Designs Flooded Font to Call Attention to Climate Change

Garamond Warming contains a literal depiction of rising sea levels

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As the coronavirus pandemic absorbs most of the news cycle, one German creative is hoping to make climate change a bigger part of that conversation with a clever font concept.

Yiğit Karagöz, a senior art director at agency Scholz & Friends in Hamburg, released a free downloadable font this week called Garamond Warming, a twist on a classic font style that’s meant to literally depict each of the characters being flooded. The design features letters with various degrees of solid color filling in their apertures—the typography term for the holes of white space partially or fully enclosed by the rest of the letter (e.g.,

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