This typeface is highly experimental, it uses vivid colours and intricately detailed patterns to create unexpected optical illusions, and its various layers can be combined and overlaid to create vibrant, hypnotic patterns. In addition to four static styles, NE, SE, SW and NE, Wind also includes variable fonts capable of a full 360° of rotation, (one clockwise, the other anti-clockwise), offering unprecedented possibilities for the exploration of repetitive textural patterns.

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Brief by Briefcase Type Foundry

The design of each character is strictly obedient to technical/drawing parameters and makes its own shapes this way. Each character is created using a maximum of two points. It simply takes a few handles and what would otherwise be annoying vector segments of rotated curves, and masterly moulds them into shapes of the Latin alphabet. A group of five styles — the default full-filled style and four outlines that match so perfectly that they can be combined at will — is what advances Brief from the original experiment into a fully fledged type family.

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Bitcount by Petr van Blokland