With Sharp Earth, type designer Lucas Sharp sought to answer the question, "Is it possible to design a typeface for the whole world?"
What began as a series of sketches drawn on a road trip through Thailand would eventually become Sharp Type’s largest typeface family to date. Developed in close collaboration with local type experts from around the world over the course of nearly 7 years, Sharp Earth includes Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai, Japanese, Arabic, and Devanagari—with more to come.
In this online lecture, Sharp will share the development, cultural complexities, production challenges, technical intricacies, and triumphs of a contemporary multi-script design that is still being defined in this pioneering field of type design, adding to the fruitful conversation that is all too relevant in our increasingly globalized world.