{"id":33061,"date":"2013-06-28T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=33061"},"modified":"2013-06-28T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:00:42","slug":"zxx-disruptive-typeface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/33061","title":{"rendered":"ZXX disruptive typeface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zxx1.jpg\" alt=\"ZXX disruptive typeface\" width=\"470\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33064\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zxx2.jpg\" alt=\"ZXX disruptive typeface\" width=\"470\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33063\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/zxx3.jpg\" alt=\"ZXX disruptive typeface\" width=\"470\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33062\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ZXX_ABC.gif\" alt=\"ZXX disruptive typeface\" width=\"470\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ZXX_ABC.gif 500w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ZXX_ABC-470x235.gif 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/z-x-x.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZXX: A typeface designed to thwart NSA surveillance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Over the course of a year, I researched and created\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/z-x-x.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZXX<\/a><span>, a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the Library of Congress\u2019 listing of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/standards\/iso639-2\/php\/code_list.php\" target=\"_blank\">three-letter codes<\/a><span>\u00a0denoting which language a book is written in. Code \u201cZXX\u201d is used when there is: \u201cNo linguistic content; Not applicable.\u201d The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker) \u2014 misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all. It can be applied to huge amounts of data, or to personal correspondence. I drew six different cuts (Sans, Bold, Camo, False, Noise and Xed) to generate endless permutations, each font designed to thwart machine intelligences in a different way. I offered the typeface as a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/z-x-x.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">free download<\/a><span>\u00a0in hopes that as many people as possible would use it. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.walkerart.org\/design\/2013\/06\/20\/sang-mun-defiant-typeface-nsa-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a title=\"YMFY\" href=\"http:\/\/youmightfindyourself.com\/post\/53938499725\/zxx-a-typeface-designed-to-thwart-nsa\" target=\"_blank\">YMFY<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZXX: A typeface designed to thwart NSA surveillance Over the course of a year, I researched and created\u00a0ZXX, a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the Library of Congress\u2019 listing of\u00a0three-letter codes\u00a0denoting which language a book is written in. Code \u201cZXX\u201d is used when there is: \u201cNo linguistic content; Not applicable.\u201d The project started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,48],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33067,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33061\/revisions\/33067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}