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In his travels throughout the world, Jean-Benoît Lévy collected hand-signage that he discovered in various packaging, signage or instruction manuals. More than a decade of research and design on the subject of hand signs resulted in this iconographical typeface and the publication: “Handbook: A book of handsigns” The name “H-AND-S” blends the subject with the name of Lévy’s San Francisco based studio, AND where it was created.
We are all individually different but we have one thing in common: each of us regularly comes in contact with those modern hieroglyphs which are the little handsign codes prevalent in our daily lives. Even if particular signs mean something different from one culture to another, there remains a common hand-sign language. All around us these signs are used like an international language because they are meant to be understood by all of us. Each time we use a tool, open a container, or play rock-paper-scissors we are utilizing the language of handsigns. Worldwide, people make these easily understood signs that we so often rely on for information, for help, or for directions. We take these signs for granted so are we truly aware of them?
Collecting, redrawing, ordering, unifying. The simple graphical exercise of collecting those signs became step-by-step, a complex signage program. The choice of those signs is based on daily movements and on universal hand codes. Logically, this typeface starts with the “Manual Alphabet for the Deaf” and is mapped to the upper and lowercase keys of the QWERTY keyboard. H-AND-S is the first time so many handsigns were assembled and redrawn in one consistent style. The language of hand-signs is universal. It belongs to no one in particular and to all of us in general.
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