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A year ago, Villa Gillet, an international multidisciplinary center, introduced the Villa, a new typeface, designed by le Combo with two styles: the Regular,whose shapes are based on typographic archetypes and the Irregular, its italic which gets its curves from atypical models that never became standards. Both offer a look on this discipline’s history.

This year, you are invited to participate in the creation of a style : a bold version, named Éventuel, whose form will attest explorations into the future of our alphabet’s construction. Because, if at the scale of a lifetime, our writing system can seem unalterable, it is actually the result of thousands of years of constant transformation. Thus, it is likely that in another thousand years, our letters will have undergone a few mutations!

It’s your turn now to imagine the future potential steps of this evolution, by drawing the letters of your choice. All the collected proposals will be used as a base for the design of a new typeface: the Villa Éventuel.