It’s hard to put art into words but that’s what visual communication student Lau Li Xuan did. Her typeface design, Hakkanese, was picked by Dutch publisher Almenara Press to be part of their 2021 publication Trazos discontinuos. Li Xuan’s design is a result of her research on the sound, tone and pitch of the Hakka language, as well as a reflection of its history.

This story was published in the Jan-Mar 2021 issue of HEY!. To read it and other stories from this issue in print, click here.