Fonts For Freedom campaign creates press freedom with font reconstruction

The Fonts For Freedom campaign, which was conceived by Reporters without Borders Germany and Serviceplan Campaign Hamburg, has reconstructed the house fonts of nine newspapers banned by governments in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Tanzania, Hungary and Russia.

The fonts were then given to major German newspapers like Süddeutsche, Die Welt, Taz and Augsburger Allgemeine. They used the Fonts for Freedom in its titles and media pages along with matching topics

The campaign plans to turn the fonts of prohibited newspapers into symbols of press freedom.