The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog— a poster for the Lyon type

The idea for this poster, also made for Kai's Lyon typefaces, was to show the typeface in a way that also says something about type design.

It spells out the pangram »The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog« (that every type designer and graphic designer has seen thousands of times) in the regular weight of the Lyon Romain typeface, but in an unfamiliar view: Instead of the normal contour of the font that separates the black shape of the letter from the background, only those things of the typeface are visible that are normally hidden from the user of a typeface: the character width and the kerning, the stem hints, the on-curve points and coordinates, and the control handles: You look »under the hood« of the letters.

(2006)