Eyja and Herbik in use by BUTTER creative studio @wearebutter.co for Zoia’s Fingers @zoiasfingers .
Eyja by Thy Hà @mai_type . Herbik by Daniel Veneklaas @daniel_veneklaas . Available online at counter-forms.com.
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Meet Protocol, a programmatic typeface developed by @counter__forms and @base_design (Melbourne) on the occasion of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Tasked with typographically responding to the theme Yield Strength — the maximum stress a material can withstand before undergoing permanent, plastic deformation — Counter Forms members @robert.janes , @tameferal.studio and @matterofsorts designed a generative browser-based type engine. By applying a number of server-side scripts in various combinations to a skeleton font, we created the potential for Protocol to flex, fray, disperse and dissipate.
This logic is then laid bare at yield-strength.com where 15 key models are manipulated by specific data sources: the current temperature, wind speed and surface pressure in Adelaide as well as the S&P 500 index. These data points, ingested every 6 hours, are further amplified by the inexorable march of time, setting up Protocol for its inevitable demise at the close of the Biennial on 8 June 2026.
Every 24 hours the website will release new iterations of the typeface, free for viewers to download. We encourage you to use the fonts as you see fit, proliferating Protocol’s program. See the link in our bio.
Credits:
Photography by Ben Moynihan @ben.moynihan
Daniel Peterson @danielgpeterson
Brigette Cantarella @brigcantarella
Tal Levin @tallevin.info
Samuel Bourke @samueljohnbourke
Counter Forms @counter__forms
Vincent Chan @matterofsorts
Robert Janes @robert.janes
Chiarra Paton-Dowling @tameferal.studio
Lev Berry @levberry
Vincent Owen @v0o0wen
Contain @containdesignstudio
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Meet Protocol, a programmatic typeface developed by @counter__forms and @base_design (Melbourne) on the occasion of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Tasked with typographically responding to the theme Yield Strength — the maximum stress a material can withstand before undergoing permanent, plastic deformation — Counter Forms members @robert.janes , @tameferal.studio and @matterofsorts designed a generative browser-based type engine. By applying a number of server-side scripts in various combinations to a skeleton font, we created the potential for Protocol to flex, fray, disperse and dissipate.
This logic is then laid bare at yield-strength.com where 15 key models are manipulated by specific data sources: the current temperature, wind speed and surface pressure in Adelaide as well as the S&P 500 index. These data points, ingested every 6 hours, are further amplified by the inexorable march of time, setting up Protocol for its inevitable demise at the close of the Biennial on 8 June 2026.
Every 24 hours the website will release new iterations of the typeface, free for viewers to download. We encourage you to use the fonts as you see fit, proliferating Protocol’s program. See the link in our bio.
Credits:
Photography by Ben Moynihan @ben.moynihan
Daniel Peterson @danielgpeterson
Brigette Cantarella @brigcantarella
Tal Levin @tallevin.info
Samuel Bourke @samueljohnbourke
Counter Forms @counter__forms
Vincent Chan @matterofsorts
Robert Janes @robert.janes
Chiarra Paton-Dowling @tameferal.studio
Lev Berry @levberry
Vincent Owen @v0o0wen
Contain @containdesignstudio
#typeface #typedesign #customtype #typography #fonts
Meet Protocol, a programmatic typeface developed by @counter__forms and @base_design (Melbourne) on the occasion of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Tasked with typographically responding to the theme Yield Strength — the maximum stress a material can withstand before undergoing permanent, plastic deformation — Counter Forms members @robert.janes , @tameferal.studio and @matterofsorts designed a generative browser-based type engine. By applying a number of server-side scripts in various combinations to a skeleton font, we created the potential for Protocol to flex, fray, disperse and dissipate.
This logic is then laid bare at yield-strength.com where 15 key models are manipulated by key data sources: the current temperature, wind speed and surface pressure in Adelaide as well as the S&P 500 index. These data points, ingested every 6 hours, are further amplified by the inexorable march of time, setting up Protocol for its inevitable demise at the close of the Biennial on 8 June 2026.
Every 24 hours the website will release new iterations of the typeface, free for viewers to download. We encourage you to use the fonts as you see fit, proliferating Protocol’s program. See the link in our bio.
#typeface #typedesign #customtype #typography #fonts
Meet Protocol, a programmatic typeface developed by Counter Forms and @base_design (Melbourne) on the occasion of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Tasked with typographically responding to the theme Yield Strength — the maximum stress a material can withstand before undergoing permanent, plastic deformation — Counter Forms members @robert.janes , @tameferal.studio and @matterofsorts designed a generative browser-based type engine. By applying a number of server-side scripts in various combinations to a skeleton font, we created the potential for Protocol to flex, fray, disperse and dissipate.
This logic is then laid bare at yield-strength.com where 15 key models are manipulated by key data sources: the current temperature, wind speed and surface pressure in Adelaide as well as the S&P 500 index. These data points, ingested every 6 hours, are further amplified by the inexorable march of time, setting up Protocol for its inevitable demise at the close of the Biennial on 8 June 2026.
Every 24 hours the website will release new iterations of the typeface, free for viewers to download. We encourage you to use the fonts as you see fit, proliferating Protocol’s program. See the link in our bio.
#typeface #typedesign #customtype #typography #fonts
Meet Protocol, a programmatic typeface developed by @counter__forms and @base_design (Melbourne) on the occasion of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Tasked with typographically responding to the theme Yield Strength — the maximum stress a material can withstand before undergoing permanent, plastic deformation — Counter Forms members @robert.janes , @tameferal.studio and @matterofsorts designed a generative browser-based type engine. By applying a number of server-side scripts in various combinations to a skeleton font, we created the potential for Protocol to flex, fray, disperse and dissipate.
This logic is then laid bare at yield-strength.com where 15 key models are manipulated by key data sources: the current temperature, wind speed and surface pressure in Adelaide as well as the S&P 500 index. These data points, ingested every 6 hours, are further amplified by the inexorable march of time, setting up Protocol for its inevitable demise at the close of the Biennial on 8 June 2026.
Every 24 hours the website will release new iterations of the typeface, free for viewers to download. We encourage you to use the fonts as you see fit, proliferating Protocol’s program. See the link in our bio.
#typeface #typedesign #customtype #typography #fonts
YIELD STRENGTH: Meet Protocol, a programmatic typeface developed by @counter__forms and @base_design Melbourne for Yield Strength, the 19th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at @agsa.adelaide curated by @elliebuttrose and running until June 8, 2026.
Its forms emerge from generative software driven by live data in Adelaide: temperature, wind speed, surface pressure, and the S&P 500, a global barometer of financial markets. Unstable and layered, Protocol defies singularity.
Throughout the Biennial, it flexes, frays, and records its own passage through time, until its programmed demise: bent, fragmented, and exhausted.
Download Protocol at the link in bio.
Credits:
Daniel Peterson @danielgpeterson
Brigette Cantarella @brigcantarella
Tal Levin @tallevin.info
Samuel Bourke @samueljohnbourke
Counter Forms @counter__forms
Vincent Chan @matterofsorts
Robert Janes @robert.janes
Chiarra Paton-Dowling @tameferal.studio
Fugit in use in Country bin pull’em Exhibition designed by U9 @u9ers on commission for @weltkulturen.museum .
Fugit by Dennis Grauel @dennisgrauel . Available online at counter-forms.com.
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Text extracts from ‘Representing the sounds of Australian Indigenous languages’ written by Sasha Wilmoth. Read more at counter-forms.com.
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Eyja in use by Studio Dobra @studiodobra for Virei, a road documentary by @gustavoimigrante .
Eyja by Thy Hà @mai_type . Available online at counter-forms.com.
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Text extracts from ‘Revivals’ written by Seb McLauchlan @seb.mclauchlan . Read more at counter-forms.com.
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