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Ferenc Gróf

  • Hungary (b. 1972 in Pécs)
  • Currently in Paris, France.
  • Ferenc Gróf is a graduate of the Hungarian University of the Arts, Budapest, and since 2012 he has taught at the ENSA in Bourges. He is a founding member of the Parisian co-operative Société Réaliste (2004-2014). Gróf lives and works in Paris.

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Zero alphabet

Zero alphabet

  • 2015
  • A typeface composed by almost interchangeable geometrical forms: a zero (0) was cut into four parts and each letter of the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet was composed using solely these four “zero fragments”.
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    Zero alphabet | 2015

The real character / Zero alphabet borrows its title from John Wilkins’ 1668 book, entitled An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language which was one of the early proposals for a universal language. Following the logic of Josef Albers’ ‘Kombinationsschrift’, a typeface composed by almost interchangeable geometrical forms, a zero (0) was cut into four parts and each letter of the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet was composed using solely these four “zero fragments”.


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