Yaprak Buse

GUS Merits 2025 – Aksan /// Our congratulations go to all of the projects awarded merits in the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship. Over the next four days, we’re highlighting their work, starting alphabetically with Aksan, by Yaprak Buse Çağlar (@typolea ). Yaprak comes from İstanbul, Türkiye. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she participated in TypeParis ’22, then attended EsadType, and just acquired her master’s degree at Ésad Amiens (@esadtype_amiens ). During her studies, Yaprak was fascinated by the process of creating typefaces for editorial use based on linguistic research while combining ornamental features. She plans to continue her type journey in Atelier National Recherche Typographie (ANRT), Renouveau project. When she isn’t busy crafting letters, Yaprak enjoys solving Sudoku puzzles, exploring museums, and painting watercolors. Merit winners receive individualised consultation from TypeTogether founders Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, as well as a copy of our “Building Ligatures” book. Congratulations, Yaprak!

Aksan by Yaprak Buse Çağlar “A recent tradition to contemporary creation” Aksan is a multifaceted font family that reflects the transformation of writing and the evolution of typography. Named after diacritic signs, Aksan is designed to cover many languages that use the Latin alphabet. Inspired by the Letter Revolution in Turkey, this typeface family combines strong visual references of the past with today’s design sensibility for a character that is both nostalgic and modern; creating a contemporary take on Turkish typographic identity. Aksan’s design process is inspired by the signs, posters, and printed materials used during the transition to the Latin-based Turkish Alphabet in Turkey; it consists of different styles that appeal to a wide range of usage scenarios. The strong, bold, and angular letterforms seen in the typography of that period are revitalized in Aksan’s display style. It also includes a script style that pays homage to the handwriting culture of the past with a tweek of different slant. The sans-serif-based text family, which prioritizes ease of reading with a touch of horizontal emphasis, offers flexibility with regular and reverse italic options, creating a balanced typographic experience for long texts.

𝔠𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤

🇬🇷 Designed by a naive who understands the nuances. Meet the minds behind Gregory’s Greek: 🖤 Much love to George Triantafyllakos @gtriant : The Thessaloniki-based designer created the Greek letters of Gregory Text. 🖤 And kudos to Turkish designer Yaprak Buse @typolea for helping out on Greek Italics while studying at EsadType in France. #typemates #typestudio #typedesigner #typefoundry #variablefont #MeetOurMates

Thanks to @lilyallen ‘s AMAZING album West End Girl, I have been listening to her discography the whole week and it takes me back to the old times. One of my favorite album of hers is “It’s Not Me, It’s You” and since I have been listening it while I’m working on this font, it is a nice time to visualize it with. Love you so much Lily. 🩵 Fonts: Adagia Text and Italic

Did you know that we had a Baskerville Workshop with Small Performances? It was an amazing and intensive study about the Baskerville punches, and creating a design from them. Me, @myrthevanrompaey @nz_mz_ and @tanguysousroche worked on the Two-line English, which is roughly around 28 point sizes. Thank you for this incredible opportunity dear Riccardo and Michele, and can’t wait to see the outcome next year in London!

would @diptyque use my font? pls use :’)

while working on this project, I find myself listening to brat album a lot, so here’s my take on the cover 🙃💚

[WIP] Adagia Typeface soon to be released by @not_a_foundry A little snippet of what’s about to come soon 🫶

[Présentation DNSEP] Et un nouveau projet de diplôme pour la promo 2023-2025 avec à l’honneur Yaprak Buse et « Aksan », à l’intersection du dessin turc et latin de caractères. @typolea « Ce projet se veut être un véritable voyage à travers les lettres et les langues, et les histoires que celles-ci acheminent : inspiré par la réforme de l’alphabet turc (ou Harf Devrimi, la Révolution des signes), Aksan explore comment la typographie peut incarner changement culturel et diversité linguistique. Son nom vient du mot « diacritique », un signe petit mais significatif qui relie différentes voix et différentes langues entre elles. Cette famille de caractères s’est développée sous plusieurs angles, chacun façonné par ce dialogue entre histoire et design. Le style display, massif et anguleux, s’inspire de la signalétique du début du XXe siècle ; la version condensée apporte un rythme plus aiguisé ; la cursive ajoute une touche manuscrite et humaine ; et la famille de caractères reflète ma profonde fascination pour les italiques, y compris une variation italique inversée qui interroge les conventions tout en les célébrant. Dans ces images, vous pourrez voir différents spécimens typographiques, des moments d’expérimentation et des extraits de ma présentation de projet de diplôme. Ensemble, ils racontent la manière dont Aksan a vu le jour — non seulement en tant que caractère, mais aussi en tant que reflet de ma passion pour les systèmes d’écriture et leur évolution. Je suis très reconnaissante de pouvoir partager cet accomplissement et j’espère qu’Aksan pourra susciter la même curiosité et le même amour des lettres qui ont su me guider tout au long de ce projet. » #Aksan #DisplayDesign #TypeFamily #Turkish #Multiscript #EsadAmiens #Esad #DesignGraphique #GraphicDesign #Typography #Typographie #TypeDesign #TypefaceDesign #Research #Diploma #Dnsep #ArtSchool

GUS ’25 Merits /// Congratulations are in order to the four promising typeface projects receiving TypeTogether’s merit award (alphabetically): Aksan by Yaprak Buse Çağlar (@typolea ), Manik by Arnab Chakraborty (@architect_of_type ), Venusville by Lee Qiu Wen (@qiuboon ), and Zofia by Agnieszka Drozd (@aga___drozd ). Over the next four days we will highlight each of the merits individually to show you the quality of their work. You can also find out more about all of the Gerard Unger Scholarship 2025 winners on our website (link in bio). Merit winners will receive a copy of our book, ‘Building Ligatures,’ as well as individualised consultation from our co-founders, Veronika Burian (@vikosch_b ) and José Scaglione (@josescaglione ). #GerardUngerScholarship #typography #fonts #studentdesign #graphicdesign

As you know, Quature has a special place in my heart and of course my type journey💚 In EsadType, first couple of months were learning about the history of type design and constantly looking through many specimens which one of them was “Album d’Applications des Nouvelles Creations Françaises de la Fonderie G. Peignot & Fils”. As I was looking through my Eagle app, I decided on recreating this wonderful layout with Quature. Swipe to see the reference ➡️