Le Murmure
Interactive Type Specimen
The Le Murmure Interactive Type Specimen was prompted to me as a way to explore every facet of the alphabet through the typeface Le Murmure in the class Typography II during my Junior year at Kansas City Art Institute.
“Buvez de ce whiskey que la patron juge famuex.” is a pangram (a sentence with every letter of the alphabet) that I used to reference the origin of Le Murmure and easily point out the type’s anatomy throughout the specimen.
The front of the specimen colorfully shows off all of Le Mumure and it’s background information and the back is a poster that poses the exaggerated M glyphs overlapped together.
The interactive element of the type specimen begins as soon as the reader picks up the folded form, looking it over as a closed piece and unfolding it section by section to unveil new information and different parts of the design as the reader goes along.
Concept
Show the full range of characters in the typeface Le Murmure and identify some of the various parts of each character.
Spread some history about Le Mumure and its creator(s) and make a compelling interactive form that can be folded down, hung up, or spread out by the reader.
