Barcelona-based Homeless Fonts turns homeless people's handwriting into fonts that can be sold to businesses for use in branding and advertising. The primary aim of the project: to bring dignity to homeless participants' lives and shine a spotlight on issues related to homelessness.
Loraine Elghobari, creator of the Loraine font, says the project has instilled her with pride, and given her something to call her own.
"Her handwriting has a beautiful rhythm, with clarity and friendliness," Bill Davis, global font product manager at typeface distributor Monotype, told Crave. Monotype recently started selling Homeless Fonts.
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September 29, 2014 9:36 AM PDT Photo by: Homeless Fonts / Caption by: Leslie Katz
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