Corinne Ang
The Mythology of Legibility
In typography and design there is one infallible concept that we are taught to strive towards: legibility. Contemporary design seeks to create visuals that can speak universally, directly and efficiently to create that sense of legibility. The current definition of legibility ubiquitously used across the industry comes with the cost of losing visibility of something else. Every story has more than one side, through examination we will look at what legibility looks like from different perspectives and how this can impact the practice of design.
About Corinne Ang
Corinne Ang is a graphic designer and type designer with practice centralising graphic form as a shared space for communities, memories and multiplicity. Originally from the Philippines and Hong Kong, she now works as an independent in Brooklyn. Her work varies across visual identity systems, typefaces & lettering, publications, illustration and web design. She has collaborated with likes of Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Isometric Studio, OHno Type Co., Something Special Studios*, Studio Elana Schlenker, Sundae School, and Vogue amongst others. Alongside client projects, she independently designs typefaces guided by narrative, culture and formal play.
