Firdevs is a typeface born from one of the most extraordinary circumstances in type design history. Created by Fevzi Yazıcı, an award-winning visual journalist and design director who earned over 100 industry accolades for his work at Istanbul's Zaman newspaper, who drew every letterform by hand with a pencil in his prison cell at Silivri. It was there, with nothing but a pencil and paper, that he finally realized a lifelong ambition: designing a typeface from scratch.
The result, Firdevs, named after his wife, was digitized by type designer Dyana Weissman. Elegant and versatile, the font has been used in exhibition posters and catalogs, yet is still legible at text sizes. Released from prison in March 2023, Yazıcı is once again free, and Firdevs stands as a testament to the kind of creativity and determination that no circumstance can contain.
Read more at The Washington Post.
More on the creation of Firdevs at Alphabettes.
Illustrations by Fevzi Yazıcı.
Also available on Adobe Fonts.
All profits go to the Yazıcı family.
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