Chengming ( Miranda) Peng

Typefaces have several abilities and characteristics that contribute to their functionality and aesthetic appeal. Besides this, it has the ability to reflect multiple aspects, such as communicating information; reflecting brand identity; conveying cultural and historical context; supporting multilingual communication; social background information.

My design inspiration comes from the news I accidentally read. In the old society of China, there was a magical and beautiful typeface called Hidden Letter. Hidden Letter existed mainly because of an old Chinese ideology that prevented local women from reading: what they called "men's books", so local women invented Hidden Letter as a secret means of communication between sisters-in-law. Hidden Letter is strictly forbidden for men to learn, and most men will regard Hidden Letter as a common pattern. It has been around for more than hundreds of years. Hidden Letter is a unique cultural "fossil", which is of great value in anthropology, ethnology, sociology, linguistics, philology, folklore, archaeology, and other fields in the study of the origin of human writing and civilization, the origin of female culture and nation, as well as the development course of civilization.

Based on the beautiful shape of the Hidden Letter font, I think the meaning and social status behind it deserve everyone's deep consideration. Based on the characteristics of this language that cannot be transmitted or changed, I extracted and stripped the beautiful shape and lines of the font itself to create this English font version, which is like a bird, a leaf, a graph.