Masterthesis Process Documentation


Beyond asterisks and underlines 
Rethinking typographic gender
representation in German language 
through visual alternatives

Research
 Gramatical Forms
Overview new Forms
Survey and Workshop
Other approaches
Unicode and Licencing
Literature, Studies and Links
Vision: Concept for Plattfom
Gender-inclusive language in German faces structural limits. Through typography, these limits can be challenged, intersections of grammar and culture made visible, and new spaces for inclusion and transformation created.
Viusal Experiments
a. Highlighting Words
b. Replacing Words
c. Replacing Letters with Signs
d. Replacing Letters with Ligatures
e. Connecter
f. Adjustable Connector in Variable Fonts
g. Variations in readability
h. Supplementary markers
i. Visualizing diversity
j. Fluidity
k. Glitch
l. Decomposition
m. Disruption
n. Outline Overlap
o. Stacked Forms
p. Mirroring
q. Blending
r. Additional German non-binary glyphs
s. Characteristics of Glyph families
t. Gendered readings
u. Variability in markers
v. Search and Replace with Non-Binary Terms
w. Customizing a non-binary Glyph
x. Exploring Glyph Alternates
y. Automatic Replacement by Punctuation
z. Automatic replacement by letter combinations
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