ZIYU WANG, Super Real Me, 2025, 10
Super Real Me, Font Design



About This typeface project is inspired by three visual and physical references: balletcore aesthetics, ribbon structures, and the form of an anchor. Rather than translating these inspirations literally, the project observes how tension, softness, balance, and weight coexist within the body and material. Curved strokes, extended connections, and moments of restraint are used to explore how a typeface can embody both delicacy and stability.

Situated under Awareness / Observation, this work reflects a process of attentive looking rather than expressive assertion. Balletcore introduces an awareness of posture and controlled movement; ribbon suggests continuity, wrapping, and flexibility; and the anchor provides a counterpoint of grounding and resistance. Together, these references form a visual language that oscillates between suspension and support, echoing bodily sensations of balance and alignment.

This essense of the project does not aim to resolve these tensions into a fixed style, but to observe them as coexisting states. Through some drawing and iteration, the typeface becomes a site for noticing how form can hold softness without collapse and structure without rigidity—an early exploration of balance as a perceptual experience rather than a functional outcome.
这个字体设计项目灵感源自三个视觉和物理参照:芭蕾核心美学、丝带结构和锚的形态。该项目并非对这些灵感进行字面翻译,而是观察张力、柔和、平衡和重量如何在人体和材料中共存。通过曲线笔画、延伸的连接和克制的瞬间,探索字体如何同时体现精致与稳定。

该作品归于“觉察/观察”类别,体现的是一种专注的观察过程,而非表达式的宣泄。芭蕾核心引入了对姿态和控制动作的觉察;丝带象征着连续性、包裹性和灵活性;而锚则提供了稳固和抵抗的对比。这些参照共同构成了一种在悬空与支撑之间摇摆的视觉语言,呼应了身体对平衡和协调的感知。

该项目的本质并非旨在将这些张力转化为一种固定的风格,而是观察它们作为共存状态的存在。通过一些绘图和迭代,字体成为一个观察点,让我们注意到形式如何在不崩溃的情况下保持柔和,如何在不僵硬的情况下保持结构——这是对平衡作为一种感知体验而非功能结果的探索。

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