Fevzi Yazıcı is a remarkably talented artist and visual journalist in prison. He makes incredible art from his cell. He also made a beautiful, dignified font, named Firdevs. I helped him digitize it. This is the most meaningful work I have done.
Recently, an exhibition of his work went up at the Hillstrom Museum of Art in Minnesota. It includes 11 new drawings that he has drawn in prison in the past year. The poster and exhibition catalog use his font, named for his wife, meaning “heaven.”
Read his story at The Washington Post.
More on its creation at Alphabettes.
Get the font here.
All proceeds go to the Yazıcı family and Reporters Without Borders.
(I have no idea why Squarespace is displaying the ı too bold)