Mat Planet

“It all started as a weird form of shorthand,” says Mat Planet about his new typeface family. “I never set out to create a typeface. The design evolved out of scribbles that practically forced their way out of me.” What began as a set of phonetic doodles over time evolved into the three styles in the Planet family of fonts. “I found a lot of similarity between what I was doing and what a lot of other designers had explored—particularly the concepts in Herbert Bayer’s ’fonetic alfabet’.”