THE ERASED FONT

Every year more journalists are being missing, imprisoned or killed.
The issue is that most of us (citizens) are unaware of the circumstances and secondly lack the knowledge to link freedom of press to democracy. As a result every journalist missing instantly becomes invisible and the topics silenced.

The need for an accessible ‘vehicle’ to help spread and provide important insights & key learnings was growing. The Erased Font was launched on the 3rd of May 2023 to help visualise the increasing attacks on press freedom, by erasing 363 words, one for each journalist that was reporting on and went missing.

Users could easily retrieve the Erased Font file from a GitHub repository, without needing to manually download anything, and integrate the font into their own projects as desired. All to help spread the awareness but more important to help make the invisible visible.

The font will be updated annually, to reflect the growing number of journalists silenced. In case we are unable to put a halt to it.